Justice News

Moscow - Two members of Pussy Riot were left with chemical burns and head injuries after they were attacked by youths in a branch of McDonald's, the group said Thursday.

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...

Tokyo - Hundreds rallied in Tokyo Saturday to protest Japanese prosecutors' decision to drop charges over the Fukushima nuclear crisis, with no one yet punished nearly three years after the "man-made" disaster.No one is officially recorded as having died as a ...

Tokyo - Hundreds rallied in Tokyo on Saturday to protest at Japanese prosecutors' decision to drop charges over the Fukushima nuclear crisis, with no one yet punished nearly three years after the "man-made" disaster."There are many victims of the accident, but...

Havana - A Cuban spy who spent more than 15 years in prison in the United States returned home Friday to a hero's welcome, Cuban state television proclaimed in a triumphant broadcast.Fernando Gonzalez was released Thursday from a maximum-security prison in Ariz...

Moscow - A Moscow court on Friday ordered Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny to be placed under house arrest and banned from using the Internet, a move he said was aimed at thwarting his fight against top-level corruption.The order came after a request from ...

Belfast - Northern Ireland's assembly was to hold an emergency debate Friday over letters sent to on-the-run IRA terror suspects, which threatened to bring down the province's administration.The devolved legislature in Belfast has been recalled at the request of...

Trinidad - A Bolivian court sentenced a man to 30 years in jail without the possibility of parole Thursday for the murders of a young French couple whose bodies were never found.Jaime Martinez, the son of a wealthy dairy farmer was convicted of being the ringlead...

Madrid - Lawmakers in Spain approved a bill Thursday that will curb courts' powers to probe cases of human rights abuses committed abroad, a practice that has irked some foreign capitals.The ruling party's proposal to limit the use of the doctrine of universal ...

Washington - One of the so-called "Cuban Five" -- intelligence agents convicted in a US spy case that made them heroes in Havana -- was released from an Arizona prison Thursday and will be deported, officials said.Fernando Gonzalez, the second member of the group t...