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Charlie Gard: Parents’ appeal for US treatment bid fails

June 8, 2017 World Justice News 0

The UK Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the parents of sick baby Charlie Gard, over plans to take him to the US for treatment. Chris Gard and Connie Yates want the 10-month old, […]

Rights group asks Germany to arrest CIA deputy director Gina Haspel

June 7, 2017 World Justice News 0

The nonprofit European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights submitted a legal brief to German federal prosecutors Tuesday, alleging that Gina Haspel allowed the waterboarding of prisoners at a secret U.S. detention center in Thailand. […]

Japanese fugitive on the run for 45 years is arrested

June 7, 2017 World Justice News 0

For one suspected murderer in Japan, it has been a case of being able to run but not being able to hide. Left-wing revolutionary Masaaki Osaka has been arrested and charged for murdering a police […]

Outrage after rapist jailed with victim

June 7, 2017 World Justice News 0

Canadian officials have expressed outrage over the case of a homeless woman who was jailed after being raped and kept in prison with her attacker. The indigenous woman, who is not being named, was brutally […]

Gordon Ramsay’s father-in-law jailed

June 7, 2017 World Justice News 0

Gordon Ramsay’s father-in-law has been jailed for six months for conspiring to hack a computer system relating to the celebrity chef’s business interests. Christopher Hutcheson, 68, and his sons Adam, 46, and Christopher, 37, admitted […]

President Trump lashes out at Justice Department for court strategy on travel ban

June 5, 2017 World Justice News 0

President Donald Trump lashed out at his own Justice Department Monday for seeking the Supreme Court’s backing for a “watered down, politically correct version” of the travel ban he signed in March instead of a […]

Terror attack at London Bridge and Borough Market – 7 people and 3 attackers dead

June 3, 2017 World Justice News 1

Latest updated at 12:05pm BST (7:05amET). Seven people have been killed in a terrorist incident in central London. The three suspected attackers were shot dead by police, Scotland Yard has said. Shortly after 10:00pm BST […]

US travel ban goes to Supreme Court

June 2, 2017 World Justice News 0

The White House has asked the US Supreme Court to reinstate a travel ban on people from majority Muslim countries. The ban has been blocked by lower courts which have said that it is discriminatory. […]

Champs Elysees attack: Posthumous marriage for slain policeman

May 31, 2017 World Justice News 0

The French policeman who was killed by a jihadist on Paris’ Champs Elysees in April has been married in a posthumous ceremony with his gay partner. The wedding of late Xavier Jugelé and Etienne Cardiles […]

Husband splits from wife who raped him as boy

May 31, 2017 World Justice News 0

A husband has filed for legal separation from his wife and former teacher, who had served a jail term for having sex with him when he was 12. Vili Fualaau, now 33, submitted papers to […]

Human Rights

Facial recognition to be ‘rolled out’ across UK after human rights challenge fails

April 22, 2026 0

Facial recognition systems will be introduced across the country, the government has said as it welcomed the failure of a legal challenge to the technology. The case against the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial […]

Canada

Canadian ‘online poison seller’ Kenneth Law to have ‘murder charges dropped in plea deal’

April 19, 2026 0

A Canadian chef accused of supplying deadly substances to people around the world who have taken their own lives will have murder charges dropped as part of a plea deal, his lawyer has said. Kenneth […]

Australia

Australia’s most-decorated living soldier charged over alleged war crimes

April 7, 2026 0

Australia’s most-decorated living soldier has been charged over allegations he committed war crimes in Afghanistan. Ben Roberts-Smith – who left the defence force in 2013 – was arrested at Sydney airport on Tuesday and will […]

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Charlie Gard: Parents’ appeal for US treatment bid fails

Rights group asks Germany to arrest CIA deputy director Gina Haspel

Japanese fugitive on the run for 45 years is arrested

Outrage after rapist jailed with victim

Gordon Ramsay’s father-in-law jailed

President Trump lashes out at Justice Department for court strategy on travel ban

Terror attack at London Bridge and Borough Market – 7 people and 3 attackers dead

US travel ban goes to Supreme Court

Champs Elysees attack: Posthumous marriage for slain policeman

Husband splits from wife who raped him as boy