A U.S. congressional report called for sanctions against China over human rights abuses, and for U.S. officials to keep rights concerns in mind during dealings with Beijing, including trade negotiations. CBC | World News
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Trump’s conduct meets definition of ‘high crimes and misdemeanours’: legal experts
Four law school professors gave lessons on U.S. history and presidential politics before the House judiciary committee hearing on Wednesday, with all but one arguing that President Donald Trump’s conduct meets the definition of “high crimes and misdemeanours” required for impeachable offences. CBC | World News
Read More »Australia’s High Court agrees to hear cardinal’s appeal over child sex crimes
Australia’s highest court agreed Wednesday to hear an appeal from the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children, giving Cardinal George Pell his last chance at getting his convictions overturned. CBC | World News
Read More »Turkey ‘outsourcing war crimes’ to armed groups, Amnesty says after Kurdish politician’s murder
Kurdish politician Hevrin Khalaf was killed, and her body mutilated, in the early days of Turkey’s military incursion in northern Syria. A human rights group says her death is an example of war crimes carried out by Turkish-backed Syrian armed groups. CBC | World News
Read More »UN war crimes defendant claims to have taken poison in court
The defence lawyer for a Bosnian Croatian war crimes suspect said her client took poison during the reading of his verdict Wednesday at the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. CBC | World News
Read More »‘Mladic must answer for these crimes’: Former Bosnian Serb general awaits war crimes verdict
Ratko Mladic, the 74-year-old former Serbian general, arrested in 2011 and put on trial a year later, will learn his fate when the UN tribunal in the Hague delivers its sentence on Wednesday. Survivors of the war tell CBC News about their ordeal as prisoners and what the verdict means to them. CBC | World News
Read More »REVEALED: Shocking number of speeding crimes committed by millennial drivers
MILLENNIAL drivers are flying around the UK’s roads, committing more speeding offences than any other driving crime behind the wheel, new research has revealed. Daily Express :: Cars Feed
Read More »REVEALED: Shocking number of speeding crimes committed by millennial drivers
MILLENNIAL drivers are flying around the UK’s roads, committing more speeding offences than any other driving crime behind the wheel, new research has revealed. Daily Express :: Life and Style Feed
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