UN Court

Alil Demiri, Afrim Ismailovic, Agim Ismailovic, Fejzi Aziri, Haki Aziri and Sami Ljuta were found guilty on Monday of killing five ethnic Macedonians at Orthodox Easter in 2012 and given the longest possible sentence for terrorism offences, life in prison.

The court said that the murder was planned and carried out in a “vicious manner”.

The Serbian parliament on Sunday changed parts of the law to clarify when it is possible and under what specific conditions for the Security Intelligence Agency to eavesdrop and intercept emails or any other form of communication.

The opposition Democratic Party was the only dissenting voice over the changes, calling for apartments to be exempted from special eavesdropping measures. 

Lawyers of the Soma Holding, which owns the mine where 301 workers died in an accident on May 13, told the court that 393,000 Turkish Liras compensation demanded by one victim’s family will make the disaster something “to be longed for” by others.

Romanian rising tennis star Simona Halep further broke ground in this exceptional season of hers, making it to the last 16 of the Wimbledon Grand Slam tournament, after defeating on Saturday Switzerland's Belinda Bencic 6-4, 6 -1, in a game that lasted one hour and 10 minutes.

The Ottoman legal system was based on the sharia and örf law. The latter was based on two sources - laws promulgated through decrees issued by the highest power of the state, the sultan, and

An Ankara court has ruled that five police officers should remain free pending trial, in the case into the illegal wiretapping of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's office.

The Court of Appeals of Bucharest rejected an appeal of Mircea Basescu on Friday, and ordered him to remain in custody up to 30 days. The ruling is final.

Mircea Basescu is the brother of Romanian President Traian Basescu; he is being accused by the National Anti-corruption Directorate of influence peddling.

A decision on the request for conditional imprisonment by convicted November 17 terrorist Savvas Xeros, serving five consecutive life sentences plus an additional 25 years for participating in five assassinations and robberies, among other crimes, was postponed on Thursday until October 14.

The coalition’s leadership was on Wednesday seeking to head off a series of potential mini-rebellions by government lawmakers over troika-mandated reforms after five conservative MPs threatened to vote against an amendment revoking cuts to the income of judges unless similar reductions in the incomes of other civil servants are also reversed.

Laid-off cleaning staff from the Finance Ministry were on Wednesday staging a protest outside the General Accounting Office in Athens.

Cleaners, now in their second month of protest, were demanding a meeting with deputy Finance Minister Christos Staikouras.