Egyptian appeals court ruled that a Russian passenger plane crash in Egypt in 2015 was not an act of terrorism and the identities of its victims are unknown, according to the Kommersant business daily. Metrojet Flight 9268 crashed …
A federal judge ordered Hillary Clinton to testify at a deposition for a lawsuit related to her use of a private email server for involving official business while working as secretary of State under President Barack Obama. …
The Central District Court of Kaliningrad has released ex-director of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Alexander Reimer convicted of embezzlement on parole. This was not the first petition for parole …
A German citizen has been released from jail in Iran as part of a prisoner swap, the Iranian judiciary said. "We announced that we are ready to [release] this German national ... on condition that they [the German government] …
The Florida Attorney General's Office approved a $2 million settlement claim for a man who was wrongfully convicted in 1976. On January 23, the Florida Department of Legal Affairs denied the request on the grounds that new …
Two years of imprisonment in an open colony is the sentence to the founder and the director-general of a construction company that deceived its shareholders, the press service of the prosecutor’s office informed. In 2016-2018, the …
The building of Moscow’s Nikulinsky District Court caught fire after unidentified perpetrators had thrown petrol bombs at it, a law enforcement source said, adding that the fire had been extinguished. "The perpetrators …
An individual accused of spying for the CIA in Iran has been sentenced to death, Iran's judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Ismaili said. He added that the Supreme Court has upheld the capital punishment for the U.S. …
A former deputy energy and coal minister in the administration of former Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych was placed in pretrial detention for 45 days on suspicion of causing $40 million in damages to the state. …
Former Belgian King Albert II has admitted he is the father of a woman born from an affair, after he was forced to give a DNA test which came back positive. He had been fighting the paternity claim by Belgian artist Delphine …
The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to put in place new rules that could jeopardize permanent resident status for immigrants who use food stamps, Medicaid and housing vouchers. Under the new policy, immigration …
Former mayor of Georgia’s Batumi Giorgi Ermakov has been sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of authority and misspending of more than $1million of state funds while in office. Another former …
A surprise is expected in former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan's criminal case in the near future - the Armenian Constitutional Court has applied to the Venice Commission and the ECHR on the issue of immunity and …
Turkey's court ruled to lift a ban on Wikipedia, after a decision by the country's top court that the block breached freedom of expression. Turkish authorities had blocked the online encyclopedia on April 29, 2017, after which …
Anaklia Development Consortium is going to appeal to the International Court of Justice in response to the Georgian government’s cancellation of the investment agreement with the consortium to build the Anaklia Deep Sea Port. …
Russia must pay a mandatory financial contribution to the budget of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the amount of which in 2020 will exceed a million dollars, the organization’s website informs. On December 9, the WADA …
Turkey's Constitutional Court ruled by majority that a government-imposed block on Wikipedia violated freedom of expression. The Wikimedia Foundation, the parent organization of the online encyclopedia, had taken the access ban to …
Armenian prosecutors overseeing the criminal cases of former President Serzh Sargsyan and ex-Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan refuse those cases, Hraparak newspaper writes. Many prosecutors …
The Yerevan Court of First Instance has granted the petition to reconfirm the detention that was selected as the pretrial measure against Narek Sargsyan, the nephew of former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, …
The Armenian Criminal Appeal Court rejected the complaint of the country's second president Robert Kocharyan, Judge Lusine Abgaryan said. The lawyers of the ex-president appealed the decision of Judge Anna …
