The Russian Justice Ministry on Friday said it has filed a lawsuit with the nation’s Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ+ “international public movement” as extremist, the latest crippling blow against the already beleaguered LGBTQ+ community in the increasingly conservative country. The ministry said in an online statement announcing the […]
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India’s construction and engineering giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has been slapped with two penalties of Rs 111.31 crore and Rs 127.64 crore by Qatar’s income tax authorities for alleged variation in the income declared by the company compared with the assessment of the authority, the company said in a […]
Apple has filed a legal case contesting decisions taken by the European Commission under its recently-introduced Digital Markets Act, according to a post shared by the Court of Justice of the European Union on X. The tough new legislation targets 22 “gatekeeper” services, run by six tech companies – Microsoft, […]
The U.S. government hammered away at its main arguments against Alphabet’s Google on Thursday, wrapping up the evidentiary phase of a court battle in which it has accused the online search leader of breaking antitrust law to stay on top. In the trial, which started on Sept. 12, the Justice […]
Just days after her success at the Latin Grammys, Colombian pop idol Shakira is set to go on trial in Barcelona on Monday for allegedly cheating Spain’s tax office out of 14.5 million euros. Prosecutors are seeking a jail term of eight years and two months, and a fine of […]
The UN’s top court will Friday rule on a long-running clash between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which Baku seized in September in a lightning offensive. Armenia has dragged Azerbaijan before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), hoping judges will force Baku to stop displacing ethnic […]
South Korean prosecutors sought on Friday a five-year jail term for the boss of Samsung Electronics Jay Y. Lee over charges of accounting fraud and stock price manipulation involving an $8 billion merger of Samsung affiliates in 2015. Lee has denied any wrongdoing. The hearing is the final lower court […]
A US appeals court judge has temporarily lifted a gag order placed on former President Donald Trump in his ongoing civil fraud trial in New York. In a written order on Thursday, Associate Justice David Friedman of the First Judicial Department said: “Considering the constitutional and statutory rights at issue […]
The European Union on Thursday has agreed tougher penalties for environmental crimes such as importing invasive species and pollution caused by ships. Under the new deal, offences causing death will be punishable with 10 years of prison while firms risk fines of 3 or 5% of their annual worldwide turnover. […]
The European Commission on Thursday said it is suing Poland over its failure to implement EU rules on minors’ procedural rights. The EU Commission does not agree with Poland’s assessment that certain legislation concerning minors under the age of 17 are not criminal proceedings, it said in a statement. The […]