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Canada, Britain, Sweden and Ukraine are to move to the International Court of Justice in their bid to hold Iran accountable for the downing of an airliner by Iranian forces in 2020. Most of the 176 people killed when Iran shot down the…

Jurors who will decide the fate of actor Kevin Spacey were sworn in Wednesday in a London court as the Oscar winner faces charges of sexually assaulting four men as long as two decades ago. The outcome of the trial could send Spacey to…

Two sisters told an Australian court Wednesday that being sexually abused by their Jewish school’s principal broke their ability to trust and was painful to remember. Malka Leifer was convicted of rape and other crimes in the Victoria…

Malaysia on Tuesday won a Dutch court case over a $14.9 billion award against the Southeast Asian nation that stems from a 19th century deal with a Philippine sultan. The verdict is part of a complex legal battle being fought in European…

A German court on Wednesday sentenced a woman to over nine years in jail for enslaving a Yazidi woman, as well as aiding and abetting war crimes and genocide as a member of Daesh. The 37-year-old German defendant, identified only as…

A 31-year-old man appeared in a court on Saturday accused of murdering two college students and a school caretaker in a knife and van attack earlier this week in the English city of Nottingham. Valdo Calocane was flanked by three…

A lawyer for Russia on Wednesday dismissed Ukraine’s account of the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in World Court hearings earlier this week as “fiction.” Ukraine accuses Russia before the UN’s top court of violating a UN…

Donald Trump denied dozens of criminal counts of willfully mishandling US government secrets and scheming to prevent their return, in a historic first appearance Tuesday in federal court. It was the former president’s second arraignment…

A London court has ordered a British-registered company to pay more than 800,000 pounds ($1 million) in damages to victims of the 2020 blast at Beirut’s port, a lawyers group in Lebanon said on Monday, in the first such verdict over the…

A Swedish appeals court on Monday said police had no legal grounds to block two gatherings where protesters had planned to burn the Qur'an earlier this year. The burning of Islam’s holy book outside Turkiye’s embassy in Stockholm in…