Trial Archives

The company changed its name from Total to TotalEnergies to emphasise its clean energy investments

Business

French court convicts TotalEnergies over misleading climate claims

A French court Thursday ruled oil and gas giant TotalEnergies had engaged in “misleading commercial practices” by overstating its climate pledges and ordered it...

AFPOctober 23, 2025

Relatives gathered outside the Belfast court at the start of the trial last month bearing posters of those killed on Bloody Sunday

World

Judge clears British ex-soldier of Bloody Sunday murders

A judge in Belfast on Thursday acquitted a British ex-paratrooper of killing unarmed civilians during the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre. Judge Patrick Lynch told...

AFPOctober 23, 2025

Sheikh Hasina addresses the U.N. General Assembly in September 2021. The verdict in the crimes against humanity case against her will be delivered on November 13

World

Bangladesh court to deliver verdict against Hasina on November 13

The verdict in the crimes against humanity case against ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina will be delivered on November 13, the attorney general...

AFPOctober 23, 2025

Total rebranded to TotalEnergies in 2021 to emphasise its diversification into wind turbines and solar panels

Business

Paris verdict due in TotalEnergies ‘greenwashing’ case

A Paris court is due to hand down a ruling Thursday whether French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies misled consumers with claims overstating its...

AFPOctober 21, 2025

Nicolas Sarkozy is to become the first former head of an EU country to serve time behind bars

World

France’s ex-president Sarkozy goes to jail

France’s ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy is to be jailed Tuesday over a scheme to acquire Libyan funding for his 2007 presidential run, becoming the first...

AFPOctober 18, 2025

Austrian property tycoon Rene Benko went on trial over alleged fraud charges as part of a wide-ranging investigation into the insolvency of his former real estate empire

World

Fallen Austrian property tycoon Benko goes on trial over fraud charges

Fallen Austrian property tycoon Rene Benko pleaded not guilty Tuesday to alleged fraud, the first charges in a wide-ranging investigation into the insolvency of...

AFPOctober 14, 2025

Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot's former husband has admitted to drugging his partner with sedatives and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her over a decade

World

Gisele Pelicot: French rape survivor and global icon

Gisele Pelicot, 72, who became an icon for women in a mass rape trial last year that resonated around the world, is to reluctantly...

AFPOctober 5, 2025

Gisele Pelicot became an international feminist icon

World

Gisele Pelicot back in French court for appeal trial ‘ordeal’

Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, whose ex-husband recruited dozens of strangers online to sexually assault and rape her while drugged, returns to court next week for...

AFPSeptember 30, 2025