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Tunisian court sentences presidential candidate Zammel to 20 months in prison

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A Tunisian court on Wednesday sentenced presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel to 20 months in prison, Zammel’s lawyer said, the latest move that has heightened opposition fears of a rigged election aimed at keeping President Kais Saied in power. Zammel, head of the opposition Azimoun party, was arrested two weeks ago on charges of falsifying voter […]

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Google scores rare legal win as €1.49bn fine scrapped

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Google has won its challenge against a €1.49bn (£1.26bn) fine from the EU for blocking rival online search advertisers. The bloc accused Google of abusing its market dominance by restricting third-party rivals from displaying search ads between 2006 and 2016. Europe’s second-top court ruled the European Commission – which levied the fine – “committed errors

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Three US citizens sentenced to death in Congo over role in failed coup

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Three U.S. citizens are among 37 defendants sentenced to death by a military court on Friday for their role in a May failed coup in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Armed men briefly occupied an office of the presidency in capital Kinshasa on May 19 before their leader, U.S.-based Congolese politician Christian Malanga, was killed

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Protests in Mexico as controversial judicial reform passed

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Reuters Picture – Police were out in force as demonstrators protested against the reform Mexico’s Senate has approved a controversial judicial reform under which judges will be elected by popular vote. Its supporters say the changes will make judges more accountable to the Mexican people but critics argue it undermines the country’s system of checks

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YouTube chef found guilty of gruesome murder on Thai holiday island

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A court in Thailand has found Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a member of a famous Spanish acting family and a YouTube chef, guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced him to life in prison, in a lurid case that has gripped Spain. The 30-year-old was convicted of the murder of Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, a 44-year-old plastic surgeon

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‘Frightening’ Taliban law bans women from speaking in public

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New vice and virtue restrictions offer ‘a distressing vision of Afghanistan’s future’, says UN New Taliban laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and met with horror by human rights groups. The Taliban published a host of new “vice and virtue” laws last week, approved

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US judge suspended for handcuffing sleeping girl during field trip

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A Detroit judge has been temporarily taken off the bench after he forced a 15-year-old girl to wear handcuffs and a jail uniform because she appeared to fall asleep during a field trip to his court. District Court Judge Kenneth King said he did not like Eva Goodman’s “attitude” and said he wanted to show

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New York’s Notorious ‘Night-Life’ Lawyer Found Dead In Car Outside Parents’ Home

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Salvatore Strazzullo earned the nickname “Night-Life Lawyer” given his penchant for taking on cases involving celebrities and embarrassing circumstances. Salvatore Strazzullo, the New York City lawyer notorious for his colourful client roster and personal scandals, was found dead in his car outside his parents’ Brooklyn home on Saturday. He was 52. The circumstances surrounding his

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US: Lawyer Gets Caught On Camera Trying to Smuggle Goods To Inmate

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A lawyer sneaking phones or drugs to their clients in prison would make for a good high stakes scene in a tv show, but what actual lawyer would think to try something like that? Daniel Dale, that’s who! ABA Journal has coverage: Daniel Sidney Dale, 49, of Terry, Mississippi, has been charged with two counts

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Kenya starvation cult leader pleads not guilty

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The leader of a Kenyan cult who allegedly encouraged over 400 followers to starve themselves to death has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter, in one of the worst-ever cases of cult-related mass deaths. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie appeared in court in the coastal city of Mombasa alongside 94 other suspects on Monday. Mr Mackenzie was

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