UN Court

The Court of Auditors monitors on a daily basis the irregularities exposed by media, and auditors check the facts, the Court's President Nicolae Vacaroiu declared on the 150th anniversary of this control body, at an event hosted at the Parliament Palace on Friday.

Defence attorney Naser Raufi told the Skopje criminal court in his closing arguments on Thursday that the seven accused had nothing to do with the murder of five ethnic Macedonians during Orthodox Easter in 2012.

Raufi who is the attorney for five of the defendants, all of whom are ethnic Albanians, said they should be released due to “lack of evidence”.

A janitor employed by the Foreign Ministry is to be dismissed after failing to turn up to work for 11 months, according to a Council of State ruling made public on Thursday.

The employee’s dismissal was originally ordered by the ministry’s disciplinary council as the worker in question had never applied for sick leave or any other type of time off.

Egyptian prosecutors on Thursday demanded the "maximum" penalty, ranging from 15 to 25 years in jail, for all 20 defendants in the trial of Al-Jazeera journalists accused of aiding the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood.
      

Islamabad's High Court on Thursday ordered police to press charges against the CIA's former station chief for murder, conspiracy and waging war against Pakistan.
      
Judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui issued the orders following a 2010 court petition by drone activist Kareem Khan, whose brother and teenage son were killed in a US drone strike in North Waziristan tribal district.

BELGRADE - There are citizens in Serbia whose civil rights have been seriously violated, but despite the protector of citizens giving a warning about this situation, nothing has been done to have it corrected, Serbia’s Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic says in his 2013 report.

An annulment decision by the Council of State has revealed that a large urbanization decision about a central Istanbul neighborhood of 5,560 houses was made upon the inspection of only 14 buildings and almost no scientific examination.

The 153 people who were detained in Istanbul and Ankara during demonstrations to mark the anniversary of the Gezi Park protests were released on June 2.

The protesters, who were detained and taken to the Vatan Police Department in Istanbul on May 31, were taken to Çağlayan Courthouse to testify.

Coalition partner PASOK has called on the Finance Ministry to abide by a court decision to allow some 400 cleaners to return to work.

Some of the cleaners blocked the entrance to PASOK’s headquarters in central Athens to protest that the ministry has yet to re-employ them, despite a first instance court ruling in mid-May ordering the government to take back the workers.

Hearings at the Hague-based court for the resolution of international disputes began on Monday with Croatia presenting its case, as Zagreb and Ljubljana attempted to settle a dispute that has continued since they both became independent from the former Yugoslavia.