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Google in hot seat after ban on Hong Kong protest song
Published on 09/05/2024
» Hong Kong called it “unbelievable” when Google rebuffed its 2022 request to bury a popular protest song from search results. Now armed with an injunction, authorities are putting legal pressure on the company to wipe it from the city’s internet.
Prince Harry accepts ‘substantial’ damages in hacking case
Published on 09/02/2024
» LONDON - Prince Harry has settled the remainder of his lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers over phone-hacking and other unlawful acts after the publisher agreed to pay “substantial” damages and his legal costs, his lawyer told the High Court on Friday.
Malaysia’s top court axes several state Islamic laws
Published on 09/02/2024
» KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia’s top court on Friday declared unconstitutional more than a dozen Islamic laws enacted by the state of Kelantan, in a landmark decision that could affect similar sharia laws in other parts of the Muslim-majority country.
More jail time for Pakistani ex-PM Khan
Published on 03/02/2024
» ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Khan were sentenced to seven years in prison and fined on Saturday by a court that ruled their 2018 marriage violated the law, ARY News reported.
‘Open warfare’ as Marcos-Duterte alliance crumbles
Published on 03/02/2024
» MANILA - The alliance between Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte disintegrated this week when they accused each other of using drugs — a rift that could threaten Marcos’s reform agenda and risk fuelling instability.
Russia’s richest man in $9bn divorce fight
Published on 31/01/2024
» LONDON - A British legal dispute between Russia’s richest man, Vladimir Potanin, and his ex-wife over a multi-billion-dollar share of his mining assets is set to continue in one of the world’s largest divorces.
‘Hawkish’ China awaits Taiwan vote
Published on 03/01/2024
» BEIJING - The arms race across the Taiwan Strait and Chinese military pressure against the island Beijing claims as its “sacred” territory is unlikely to end no matter who wins Taiwan’s closely watched elections.
Hong Kong bomb plotters get up to 6 years
Published on 28/12/2023
» HONG KONG - Three Hong Kong activists were jailed for up to six years on Thursday after pleading guilty to charges relating to a plan to place bombs in court buildings and other public infrastructure in 2021 following widespread pro-democracy protests.
Kosovo court upholds conviction of rebel commander
AFP, Published on 14/12/2023
» THE HAGUE - The special Kosovo court in The Hague on Thursday quashed an appeal by a former rebel commander convicted for torture and murder in the tribunal's "landmark" first conviction, but reduced his sentence by four years.
Ruling on ‘unlawful’ Zulu king stuns South Africa
AFP, Published on 13/12/2023
» JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's president and Zulu monarch have been stunned by a court ruling that the state's recognition of King Misuzulu Zulu was "unlawful", in a move that risks reopening old succession wounds.