By AFP WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains a suicide risk if extradited to the United States, despite assurances he would not be held in isolation at a “supermax” prison there, his lawyer said Thursday. On the second of two days of […]
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International legal and public-affairs news, major court decisions, regulatory developments and events with relevance to Nigerian readers.
By AFP Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema goes on trial in France on Wednesday accused of complicity in the attempted blackmail of former international teammate Mathieu Valbuena, a case known as the “sextape affair”. Benzema, 33, is suspected of helping a […]
By Editor A medical inquiry has heard that a Nigerian doctor Francis Megwa, who was employed as a senior house officer at University Maternity Hospital Limerick knew “near nothing” and was unable to take blood samples and insert intravenous drips and […]
By Unini Chioma (AP) — A lawyer shot his client to death in a courtroom in northern Mexico Wednesday, than fled into an adjoining chamber and killed himself with a gunshot to the head. Prosecutors in the northern state of Sonora […]
by Jonathan Ledger A US magistrate has recommended that a civil lawsuit against Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United star, for alleged rape should be outrightly dismissed. According to BBC Sports, Daniel Albregts, a magistrate judge in the United States district court for […]
By Agency Report Grace Mugabe, the widow of Zimbabwe’s longtime former ruler Robert Mugabe, has challenged a court order to exhume her husband’s remains for reburial at a national shrine, court papers showed Monday. Mugabe was buried in his rural home […]
By Editor A Syrian refugee in the US who plotted to bomb a church in Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 23, […]
By AFP Jacob Zuma on Monday said South Africa was becoming a “constitutional dictatorship” after the country’s highest court upheld its decision to jail him for contempt. In a scathing ruling the Constitutional Court last week stood by its earlier order, […]
Five people, including two police officers on duty, were among the dead. NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA A resident of Kazakhstan’s Almaty opened fire at court bailiffs and police officers, leaving five people killed. The police on Monday said the man, […]
By AFP The US Supreme Court handed a major victory to abortion opponents late Wednesday, denying an emergency request to block a new law effectively banning most abortions in the southern state of Texas. The court, which had received the emergency […]