Topic: Law & Courts — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-13 06:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Two Live Nation employees bragged about slapping customers with exorbitant fees at the entertainment giant’s venues, saying “these people are so stupid” that “I almost feel bad taking advantage of them,” according to court documents released late Wednesday.
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[2026-03-13 06:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri court has rejected a legal challenge to new U.S. House districts backed by President Donald Trump that are aimed at helping Republicans win an additional seat in the midterm elections.
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[2026-03-13 06:39 UTC+10:00] [Israel] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Five soldiers were indicted over alleged violent abuse and rape of Palestinian man at detention centre in 2024
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[2026-03-13 06:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The legal battle in this matter originated in 2004, when the plaintiff filed an action in the District Court of Kandy seeking a declaration of title and the ejectment of the defendant from the disputed property. Five years into the trial, in 2009, the parties entered into a settlement agreement.
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[2026-03-13 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The construction of the new Court complex in Pugoda was inspected yesterday morning (12) by the Minister and officials of the Ministry of Justice and National Integration.
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[2026-03-13 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The media recently reported that liquor sales go up drastically on and after the day beneficiary families receive Aswesuma payments. This is not a new issue and the Government is being forced to spend billions of rupees paying Aswesuma benefits, at least some of which goes to the liquor mudalalis, both legal and illegal.
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[2026-03-13 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Our Court Correspondent
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[2026-03-13 05:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have opened an investigation into Belarus over the suspected forced deportation of government opponents.
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[2026-03-13 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The legal costs are a major consideration in any divorce. (Supplied)
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[2026-03-13 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The parents of three young children have been sentenced in Western Australia’s District Court after they left their kids home alone for days on end at their semi-rural property with access to guns and ammunition.
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[2026-03-13 04:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iceland and the Netherlands filed declarations to intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday, bringing the number of countries seeking to participate in the proceedings to 18.
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[2026-03-13 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Add another record to Aaron Judge’s ledger.
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[2026-03-13 04:05 UTC+10:00] [assault] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The victim, who has a learning disability, was deprived of food, forced to do manual labour and assaulted by Amanda Wixon, the court heard
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[2026-03-13 03:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow on Thursday convicted 19 people of involvement in the 2024 shooting rampage at a Moscow concert hall that killed 149 people and wounded over 600 in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in years.
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[2026-03-13 03:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Lil Nas X flashed a smile before entering a Los Angeles court Thursday morning for a hearing tied his alleged assault of a police officer while wandering nearly naked on an LA street.
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[2026-03-13 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEARLY a decade has passed since Enrique Manas Sr. was ambushed and killed in a small town in Samar province. A criminal complaint was promptly filed in 2017 against alleged suspects Emilio Zosa, Joel Calagos, Arturo Deborbon, Sofronio Meduranda Jr. and Reymart Antivo, yet the case has still not gone to trial.
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[2026-03-13 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: I was caught up in a commotion, and was accused of being the one who hurt someone. I am planning to surrender to the barangay or to the police. If it is considered a “voluntary surrender,” will the penalty be reduced? How will the court recognize or treat such act?
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[2026-03-13 02:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seen on Dec. 9, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File)
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[2026-03-13 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WNBA star Rickea Jackson worried that ex-boyfriend and Falcons first-round pick James Pearce Jr. “will kill me” and was in “fear of my life,” according to court documents seen by ESPN.
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[2026-03-13 02:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Claudio Tapia, top center, president of the Argentine Soccer Association (AFA) arrives to court in connection with a complaint filed by Argentina’s tax collection agency on failure to pay social security taxes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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[2026-03-13 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this image taken from a Maryland State Police body cam video and released in a court filing shows Jack “Ziz” LaSota standing outside a box truck, Feb. 16, 2025, in Frostburg, Md. (Maryland State Police via AP)
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[2026-03-13 01:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: In the face of a lawsuit and growing verbal attacks on the campaign trail, Rep. Eric Swalwell — the Democratic frontrunner in the California governor’s race — insists he’s kept a home in the state for nearly nine years while serving in Congress.
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[2026-03-13 01:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Four additional men deported from the United States have arrived in Eswatini, a lawyer and prison official confirmed Thursday, as Washington expands its third-country deportation program.
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[2026-03-13 01:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court Thursday decided not to pursue allegations by Venezuela that US sanctions had led to crimes against humanity, saying there was "no reasonable basis" for this accusation.
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[2026-03-13 01:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Mark Zuckerberg and opposing lawyers dueled in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday as he answered questions about young people’s use of Instagram, his congressional testimony and internal advice he’s received about being “authentic” and not “robotic.”
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[2026-03-13 01:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Piers Morgan asked Mehdi Hasan a whopping seven times in a row whether he was happy that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was no longer ruling Iran after his assassination — but the former MSNBC host refused to answer, calling it a “loaded question.”
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[2026-03-13 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: There is no shortage of bold-faced names in the RJ Cipriani-Jeff Shell legal drama. Joel Silver. Dana White. Ari Emanuel. There is, however, one name we didn’t recognize in the latest legal document — a litigation “hold” letter — that was sent Tuesday to WME requesting Emanuel preserve certain communications.
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[2026-03-13 00:04 UTC+10:00] [Inner Mongolia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Legal safeguards heed Xi Jinping’s call to foster ‘shared spiritual home’ with an eye on staving off ‘domestic friction’, analysts say
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[2026-03-12 23:58 UTC+10:00] [Rape and sexual assault] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Exclusive: Judge describes Gerald Peck, who was banned from practising in the 1980s, as ‘a charlatan and a fraud’
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[2026-03-12 23:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A liquor distillery in the Kaluga region is seeking to sell Trump-branded premium vodka and gin as part of a legal challenge to the trademark’s protection in Russia’s intellectual property court.
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[2026-03-12 22:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UK's High Court has ruled in favour of the journalist Owen Jones on key issues in a libel case brought by Raffi Berg, BBC news online's Middle East editor, over an article in which Jones alleged that Berg fostered a culture of bias towards Israel.
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[2026-03-12 21:39 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A set of judicial reform laws were officially proclaimed Thursday, allowing constitutional appeals of Supreme Court rulings, punishment for judges who intentionally distort legal principles and an expansion of the top court.
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[2026-03-12 21:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: India all-rounder Hardik Pandya has landed in legal trouble after a Pune-based advocate filed a complaint with the police, alleging disrespect to the Indian national flag during the T20 World Cup victory celebrations in Ahmedabad on Sunday.
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[2026-03-12 20:44 UTC+10:00] [Retail industry] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Cosmetics firm takes legal action against London-born perfumer who sold brand and rights to her name in 1999
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[2026-03-12 20:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Men tried on the charges of involvement in a terror attack at the Crocus City Hall in March 2024 listen to the verdict in a glass cage at the Second Western District Military Court in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
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[2026-03-12 20:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: ADF member Reece Humbles has appeared in court on charges of robbery, aggravated assault and deprivation of liberty.
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[2026-03-12 20:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Pretoria summoned the new US ambassador Wednesday to explain "undiplomatic remarks" about South African racial policies and court decisions, the foreign minister said.
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[2026-03-12 19:25 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Rep. Yang Moon-seok of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea was stripped of his assembly seat with the Supreme Court on Thursday, upholding his fraud conviction.
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[2026-03-12 19:20 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld a three-year prison sentence for a YouTuber accused of blackmailing fellow creator Tzuyang, confirming a lower court ruling that found him guilty of extorting tens of millions of won by threatening to expose alleged personal scandals.
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[2026-03-12 19:20 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Rugby Union] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-03-12 18:56 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed a suspended prison sentence for Rep. Yang Moon-seok of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, effectively stripping him of his seat in the National Assembly.
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[2026-03-12 16:54 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A fired Brisbane CityCat worker has failed to get her job back after she was absent for almost half of the time between mid-2024 and mid-2025, according to Fair Work Commission ruling.
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[2026-03-12 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TOKYO — Uber announced Thursday its first robotaxi partnership in Japan, teaming up with Nissan and British artificial intelligence autonomous driving startup Wayve for a trial this year in Tokyo.
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[2026-03-12 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CEBU CITY, Philippines – Berdhel Galon and Jammy Jueza-Entera combined sharp court awareness and steady net play to outduel Bless Maiso and Gail Bercede, 15-11, and headline the gold medal winners in the Novice division of the Kosmas Pickle Fest 2026 Adult Categories at the Net and Paddle courts here Wednesday.
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[2026-03-12 16:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Kathlyn Bugna returns to the court and immediately takes center stage as she headlines the Gov. Edwin Jubahib National Juniors Tennis Championships at the DavNor Sports Tourism Sports Complex in Tagum City, Davao del Norte.
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[2026-03-12 16:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Helen Cable's (middle) testimony will form a key part Barry Cable's defence in his child sex abuse trial. (ABC News)
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[2026-03-12 15:46 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: As artificial intelligence advances, a growing number of young South Koreans are turning to generative AI for legal advice in relatively minor criminal cases.
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[2026-03-12 15:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The widow of Jovenel Moïse — Haiti’s last elected president — described being shot and wounded during the 2021 assassination of her husband while testifying Wednesday in the US federal trial of four men charged with conspiracy in the case.
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[2026-03-12 15:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks at an event at the National Governors Association Winter Meeting, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)
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[2026-03-12 14:57 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Huons, a South Korean pharmaceutical company specializing in ophthalmic and injectable medicines, said Thursday it has received Investigational New Drug approval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety to begin a Phase 2 clinical trial of its dry eye treatment candidate.
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