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CNN
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A Yemeni judge dissolved the marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a man nearly four times her age, and the girl's lawyer said Wednesday that the court also ordered the youngster removed from the control of the father who forced her into the wedding.
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Canada.com
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An Immigration and Refugee Appeal Board judge has been accused of propositiong a refugee claimant in exchange for a favourable response to the woman's application.
CTV News obtained video of the judge suggesting to a South Korean woman that he would ap..
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Toronto Star
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Prosecutors say they plan to launch a speedy appeal of a Toronto judge's ruling that Canada's marijuana possession laws are unconstitutional.
CBC News reports the judge made the ruling in dismissing charges against a 29-year-old Toronto man charged wit..
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Washington Post
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A federal judge yesterday ordered the military to temporarily refrain from awarding the largest security contract in Iraq. The order followed an unusual series of events set off when a U.S. Army veteran filed a protest against the government practice of h..
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BBC News
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A US federal judge has dismissed immigration charges against Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, a man convicted of blowing up a Cuban airliner in 1976.
The judge accused the US government of "fraud, deceit, and trickery" in its handling of the case...
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CNN
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Pakistan's top judge, whose suspension by the country's military leader has sparked a political crisis, urged lawyers to continue their fight to uphold the independence of the judiciary.
Lawyers and opposition figures have staged protests across the co..
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Malta Star
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An Italian judge ordered a 13 year old girl from Torino to abort her unborn child because her parents were opposed to the baby. Italian legislation states that a minor is not allowed to decide whether to abort or not and the 'decision' falls entirely..
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Times Online
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A judge refused to jail a convicted paedophile for another offence and ordered him to pay his latest victim, a six-year-old girl, enough money to buy a new bicycle to cheer herself up...
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CBC
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An Ontario judge has struck down part of the Anti-terrorism Act, but legal experts were divided on whether it will make successful prosecutions more difficult...
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BBC News
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A judge in Austria has extended by another month the detention of Josef Fritzl, who is accused of imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years.
The ruling came at a 15-minute, closed-door hearing in St Poelten, where Mr Fritzl is being held.
Mr F..
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BBC News
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A judge in Zimbabwe is due to rule on whether the country's electoral commission should be forced to release the presidential election results.
Southern African leaders have urged authorities to announce the results of the poll, held more than two week..
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BBC News
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A Nigerian judge has dismissed both opposition petitions asking that President Umaru Yar'Adua's election last year be annulled.
Opposition candidate Gen Muhammadu Buhari had said the ballot did not take place in 29 of the 31 states.
While former Vic..
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BBC News
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Senior Australian lawyers are appealing against a judge's decision to allow nine Aborigine males to walk free from court after admitting rape.
Queensland Attorney General Kerry Shine labelled the ruling unacceptable and "manifestly inadequate".
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MSNBC
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The jury in the case of a pig farmer accused of being Canada's worst serial killer resumed deliberations late Thursday after the judge clarified a portion of his instructions.
Deliberations were suspended for about two hours following a question passed..
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CNN
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A judge in Chad on Friday freed three Spanish flight crew members who had been detained for allegedly plotting to kidnap African children from the impoverished central African country, a senior Spanish foreign ministry spokesman told CNN. The three Spania..
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BBC News
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A US judge has upheld a $300m fine against British Airways (BA) for price fixing after a guilty plea.
The case was heard by a judge in Washington, who had to formally approve the fine which was recommended in July by the Department of Justice.
BA no..
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FOX News
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A judge in suburban Chicago granted Craig Stebic's request to dismiss his petition seeking a divorce from his missing wife, Lisa.
Craig Stebic filed the petition last Friday, just a day after Plainfield, Ill., police named him a person of interest in t..
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BBC News
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A Chilean judge has ruled that Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori should not be extradited to Peru.
Mr Fujimori has been accused of human rights violations and corruption by Peru's prosecutors - charges he denies.
The judge's decision, which i..
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FOX News
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A federal judge indicted two U.S. pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers on manslaughter-related charges Friday in Brazil's worst air disaster, court officials said.
Judge Murilo Mendes accepted the charges filed by a prosecutor last week in..
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CNN
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A Brazilian judge Friday indicted two U.S. pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers on manslaughter-related charges stemming from the deadliest air disaster in Brazil's history, court spokesman Fabio Paz said.
Last September, 154 people died w..
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