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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is bracing for a decisive court ruling in the United Kingdom that will decide whether he is to be extradited to the United States on spying charges. The High Court of London is expected to make a judgement on Tuesday (March 26) on whether to allow or block the 52-year-old's extradition to the US, where he faces 18 counts of espionage for publishing hundreds of thousands of confidential documents in 2010 related to the US military’s conduct during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The Australian journalist and ethical hacker has been held at Belmarsh prison in the ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Fashionistas desperate to get their hands on an exclusive Birkin handbag are suing Hermes in California on grounds the company won't sell them one unless they buy other luxury products first. A class-action lawsuit argues that would-be customers have to spend tens of thousands of dollars on scarves, shoes and belts just to be given the opportunity to get their hands on one of the world's most sought-after purses. One of the plaintiffs, Tina Cavalleri, says she inquired about buying one of the coveted handbags from the French company in 2022. She "was told specialty bags are...
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It looks like Reckitt’s baby formula saga is set to continue for a while. The company's Illinois-based unit was recently ordered by a jury to shell out a hefty $60 million (€55 million) payment to Jasmine Watson, the mother of a premature infant son who passed away following developing a bowel disease allegedly caused by baby formula Enfamil. Enfamil, produced by Reckitt’s American infant formula arm Mead Johnson, is believed to cause necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) - the disease that Watson's son died from - which mainly affects premature babies and is fatal about 15% to 40% of the time. More...
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Switzerland-based energy consortium Nord Stream has launched a €400 million lawsuit against insurers including Lloyds of London and Arch Insurance. The contractual disputes relate to the ruptured pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2, which were designed to transport Russian gas to western Europe. After an underwater explosion in 2022, most of the infrastructure was damaged, causing energy prices to rocket in Europe. Sweden closes probe into Nord Stream pipelines explosionExplosive traces found on yacht in Nord Stream sabotage probeNord Stream is now suing its insurers, claiming that they failed to pa...
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A group of the world’s most prominent human rights organisations is suing Danish authorities over the continued exports of arms to Israel even as more than 30,000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli military. The local branches of Oxfam, Amnesty, Action Aid and the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq have announced a lawsuit against the Danish National Police and the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Their action asks Danish authorities to stop Denmark’s arms exports to Israel on the grounds that there is “a clear risk that weapons and military equipm...
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Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, who brought to light swathes of alleged safety concerns with the US aircraft manufacturer's planes, has been found dead in his truck in South Carolina. The Charleston County coroner confirmed his death on Monday and announced that an investigation is ongoing. Police believe that the 62-year-old died on Saturday from a "self-inflicted" wound. In the days leading up to his death, Barnett had been giving evidence in a lawsuit against his former employer. He had worked for the firm for more than 32 years until his retirement in 2017. Are Boeing 737 Max planes saf...
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From the start, the case was highly unusual: a criminal prosecution centred on the disputed ownership of a cache of hand-drafted lyrics to 'Hotel California' and other Eagles hits. Its end was even more unexpected. In the middle of trial, New York prosecutors abruptly dropped their case against three collectibles experts who had been accused of scheming to hang onto and peddle the pages, which Eagles co-founder Don Henley maintained were stolen. The decision came on Wednesday 6 March 6 amid revelations of new evidence that raised doubts about the fairness of the trial. From Lana Del Rey to Kan...
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Attorneys for Meta Platforms and several of its current and former leaders, including founder Mark Zuckerberg, are asking a judge in the US state of Delaware to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges the company has deliberately failed to protect users of its social media platforms from human trafficking and child sexual exploitation. Filed last year by several investment funds, it claims that Meta’s directors and senior executives have long known about rampant human trafficking and child sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram, but have failed to address the predatory behavi...
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Former senior executives of Twitter are suing Elon Musk and X Corp., saying they are entitled to a total of more than $128 million (€118 million) in unpaid severance payments. Twitter’s former CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde, and General Counsel Sean Edgett claim in the lawsuit filed on Monday that they were fired without a reason on the day in 2022 that Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, which he later rebranded X. Because he didn’t want to pay their severance, the executives say Musk "made up fake cause and appointed employees of...
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