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Istanbul - A Turkish court on Friday ordered the immediate release of ex-military chief Ilker Basbug who was sentenced to life in prison last year for plotting to overthrow the Islamic-rooted government, his lawyer said.The decision came a day after Turkey's top ...

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was convicted of sodomy Friday in a fresh threat to the career of a charismatic politician who helped turn around the country's once-hapless opposition.Saying a lower court misjudged evidence, a Court of Appeal...

Istanbul - Turkey's constitutional court ruled Thursday that the legal rights of a former army chief jailed over an alleged coup plot had been violated, a decision that paves the way for his release.The country's top court argued that a local tribunal had not "ef...

Moscow - A Moscow appeals court on Thursday cut the sentences for former Bolshoi soloist and two accomplices over an acid attack that nearly blinded the famed company's artistic director.Soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko had his six-year sentence in a strict-regime pe...

San Francisco - A US jury has convicted a California businessman of selling stolen trade secrets to Chinese firms so they could develop a pigment used to whiten a wide range of products.US officials said the conviction of Walter Lian-Heen Liew (also known as Liu Yuanx...

Washington - The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Argentina must pay British company BG Group $185 million for losses arising from the country's 2001-2002 economic crisis.The US high court endorsed a lower court's ruling in the case that a US-based tribunal ha...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated a $185.3 million arbitration award British company BG Group Plc won against Argentina before an appeals court threw it out.

Pretoria - Oscar Pistorius's murder trial was set Wednesday to hear further testimony of screams and gunshots the night Reeva Steenkamp died, challenging the sprinter's defence against premeditated murder.In vivid testimony that cast doubt on the Paralympian's cl...

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