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Mexico president blasts 'stratospheric' supreme court wages
Top Stories & Analysis 12/10/2018The Mexican president is butting heads with the Supreme Court just one week into office after judges suspended a law that would cap public sector salaries, one of his key campaign promises.President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accused the judges of l...
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Court orders Japan company to pay 4 Koreans for forced labor
Top Stories & Analysis 10/27/2018In a potentially far-reaching decision, South Korea's Supreme Court ruled that a major Japanese steelmaker should compensate four South Koreans for forced labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula before the end of World War II.The l...
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EU court orders Poland to reinstate Supreme Court judges
Top Stories & Analysis 10/20/2018The European Union's top court ordered Poland on Friday to immediately stop applying a law that lowered the retirement age for Supreme Court judges, forcing some 20 off the bench.The interim injunction from the European Court of Justice also obliges ...
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India's top court lifts temple's ban on women who menstruate
Top Stories & Analysis 09/29/2018India's Supreme Court on Friday lifted a temple's ban on women of menstruating age, holding that equality is supreme irrespective of age and gender.The historic Sabarimala temple had barred women age 10 to 50 from entering the temple that is one of t...
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Arkansas court hears challenge over reworked voter ID law
Top Stories & Analysis 09/21/2018An Arkansas attorney told state's highest court on Thursday it should strike down a law that requires voters to show photo identification before casting a ballot, saying the measure circumvents a 2014 ruling against a nearly identical voter ID requir...
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The Latest: New Mexico court blocks straight-ticket option
Top Stories & Analysis 09/13/2018The New Mexico Supreme Court is blocking a ballot option that would have allowed voters to select candidates from one particular party in all races by marking a single box. The court made its decision Wednesday after listening to oral arguments ...
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Myanmar rejects int'l court's right to Rohingya probe
Top Stories & Analysis 09/07/2018Myanmar's government on Friday rejected an International Criminal Court ruling that it has jurisdiction to investigate allegations that Myanmar security forces violated international law by driving hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from their...
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Indian Supreme Court orders house arrest for activists
Top Stories & Analysis 08/30/2018India's top court ordered Wednesday that five prominent rights activists arrested for alleged Maoist links be kept under house arrest instead of police custody until it rules next week on a petition challenging their detention.Police, meanwhile, brok...
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Austrian court's approval for spy agency raid was illegal
Top Stories & Analysis 08/28/2018Judges in Austria say a lower court's authorization for police to raid the offices of the country's domestic intelligence agency was illegal.The regional court in Vienna said Tuesday that the search of the BVT spy agency on Feb. 28 wasn't justified b...
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Lawyers will seek to shift blame for warehouse fire at trial
Top Stories & Analysis 08/19/2018Lawyers for the two men charged in the Northern California warehouse fire that killed 36 people said Friday they are now preparing for a trial where they will try to shift blame for the blaze from their clients to others, including the building's own...
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Rock icon Cliff Richard wins UK High Court privacy case
Top Stories & Analysis 07/19/2018British rock icon Cliff Richard has won his privacy case against the BBC for its coverage of a police raid at his home and has been awarded more than 200,000 ($260,000) in damages.Richard had sued the broadcaster for its coverage of the 2014 raid, wh...
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Supreme Court seems divided over Texas redistricting
Top Stories & Analysis 06/19/2018The Supreme Court appeared divided Tuesday over Texas' appeal to preserve congressional and legislative districts that a lower court struck down as racially discriminatory.The justices heard arguments in the latest round of court action over Texas el...