The European Commission announced Friday that it is taking France to court over its failure to properly treat waste water in over 60 large towns, including Avignon, Bordeaux and Lyon.
Prosecutors on Tuesday repeated a request that Total be ordered to pay the maximum fine for polluting as the oil giant appeals a January 2007 decision for a massive fuel spill along the coast of Brittany in 1999.
Reynaldo Bignone, the last military ruler of Argentina’s “Dirty War” era, is facing trial for crimes committed during his regime’s crackdown on leftwing activists and other opposition figures.
Judges hearing the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic have temporarily adjourned the case. They must decide whether proceedings can continue despite Karadzic's boycott of the trial.
French authorities have come under pressure to say what they knew about the illegal sale of arms to Angola in the 1990s after a Paris court slapped jail terms and stiff fines on leading members of the French political and business establishment.
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Some 30 years after the hardline communist regime fell, Duch, a notorious camp commandant, is the first high-ranking Khmer Rouge official to be tried in the UN-backed war crimes court.
