[ad_1] US President Trump (Image credits: AP) A federal court ruled on Wednesday that US President Trump does not have the authority to impose broad tariffs on imports using emergency powers.The decision, delivered by a three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade in New York, came after several lawsuits argued that Trump exceeded his […]
[ad_1] Representative image (AP) DETROIT: The Michigan supreme court on Wednesday dismissed appeals by families of students killed or wounded at Oxford High School in 2021, ending efforts to hold employees partly responsible for the mass shooting. Under Michigan law, immunity is a high hurdle to overcome in lawsuits against a government body, including public […]
[ad_1] German court dismisses climate case against RWE (Photo: AP) In a decision that has been ten years in the making, judges in the western German city of Hamm have thrown out the case of a Peruvian farmer seeking damages from energy giant RWE for the risk of flooding connected to melting glaciers.Delivering its verdict […]
[ad_1] Courtroom sketch of a judge ruling in trhe trial of Joel Le Scouarnec (Image credit: AP) A French court is to give its verdict Wednesday in the trial of a surgeon who admitted to sexually abusing hundreds of patients over more than two decades, in one of the country’s largest child sex abuse cases.Joel […]
[ad_1] Emergency services at the scene of a stabbing at Hamburg Central Station in Hamburg, Germany (AP) BERLIN: A German woman accused of a mass stabbing attack at a train station in Hamburg was to appear before a judge Saturday, while the number of victims wounded rose to 18, police said.The suspect, a 39-year-old woman, […]
[ad_1] North Carolina Governor Josh Stein (Image: AP) A divided North Carolina Supreme Court confirmed Friday that it was OK for a new law that shifted the power to appoint State Board of Elections members away from the Democratic governor to start being enforced earlier this month, even as the law’s constitutionality is deliberated. The […]
[ad_1] PARIS: The robbery was over in minutes, the fallout long: Nearly a decade after robbers stormed Kim Kardashian’s luxury residence and tied her up at gunpoint, a Paris court will decide the verdict Friday in one of the most audacious celebrity heists in modern French history. Nine men and a woman stand accused of […]
[ad_1] Representative Image (AI-generated) The Philippine Senate will convene the impeachment court that will decide the future of vice-president Sara Duterte on June 3, according to a document seen by AFP on Friday. Duterte was impeached by the House of Representatives in February for “high crimes” including corruption and an alleged assassination plot against former […]
[ad_1] Italy’s constitutional court ruled on Thursday that both women in a same-sex relationship can be legally recognised as parents on a child’s birth certificate, declaring it unconstitutional to limit parental recognition solely to the biological mother.The court found that denying recognition to the non-biological mother who consented to the medically assisted pregnancy and shares […]
[ad_1] Italy’s constitutional court rules in favour of same-sex mums (AP) ROME: Italy’s highest court ruled on Thursday it was unconstitutional not to legally recognise non-biological mothers on the birth certificates of children born to same-sex couples through IVF.The finding was hailed “historic” by opposition parties in Italy, which is governed by self-declared “Christian mother” […]
