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In a watershed for LGBT rights in Poland, the Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) has ruled that same-sex marriages performed in other EU member states must be recognised — a striking shift in a traditionally Catholic nation. The decision, delivered in line with a ruling by the EU’s top court, drew applause in the courtroom as longtime activists and same-sex couples gathered to celebrate. The case centred on Jakub Cupriak-Trojan and his husband, Mateusz Trojan, who married in Berlin in 2018. After the couple relocated to…

Three men injured in Provisional IRA attacks in England will discontinue their civil claim against former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, the High Court was told by their lawyers. The trio had sought a nominal £1 in damages, citing injuries from bombings in the 1970s and 1990s. The claimants are John Clark, hurt in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing in London; Jonathan Ganesh, a survivor of the 1996 London Docklands blast; and Barry Laycock, injured in the 1996 attack on Manchester’s Arndale shopping centre. They alleged Mr Adams was…

Nicolas Sarkozy faces retrial over alleged Libyan financing of 2007 campaign Ex-French president appeals five-year sentence; hearing at Paris Appeal Court runs to June 3 Standfirst: A lower court in September convicted Sarkozy of criminal conspiracy in a scheme prosecutors say sought funding from Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya. He served 20 days in jail after the ruling and denies wrongdoing. Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy returned to court for a retrial at the Paris Appeal Court over allegations he sought Libyan financing…

Veteran journalist John Ware told a London High Court on Monday that former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams’ repeated denials of IRA membership angered members of the group he interviewed — and that, based on decades of reporting, he believes Adams served for more than 30 years on the IRA’s army council and was “one of the single most influential strategists in the Republican movement.” Ware’s evidence came in a civil trial brought by three victims of separate IRA bomb attacks in 1973 and 1996, who allege Adams was directly…

LONDON — Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, who performs as Mo Chara, will not face a new terror trial after the High Court in London rejected a Crown Prosecution Service appeal seeking to revive a case thrown out last year. Ó hAnnaidh was accused of displaying a flag in support of proscribed terror organization Hezbollah during a gig at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, north London, on Nov. 21, 2024. The case was dismissed in September, when Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring ruled the proceedings were “instituted unlawfully.”…

Sunday March 8, 2026 Arusha (AX) — East African Community leaders on Sunday approved and swore in Somali jurist Abdiwahid Warsame Abdullahi as a judge of the First Instance Division of the East African Community Court of Justice, marking a milestone in Somalia’s integration into the regional bloc. The appointment was endorsed at the 25th Summit of EAC Heads of State in Arusha, where Abdullahi took the oath of office. His elevation brings Somali legal expertise onto the bench of the EAC’s principal judicial institution at a…

JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a government move to shutter Gaza operations by dozens of international aid organizations after the groups petitioned against new rules requiring them to identify Palestinian staff. The High Court of Justice on Sunday issued a temporary injunction allowing the organizations to continue most of their work while it considers the petition, according to the groups involved. The order pauses enforcement of regulations that aid agencies say would have forced them to halt…

Hong Kong’s appeals court has upheld the subversion convictions and prison terms of 12 pro-democracy figures linked to the city’s biggest national security case, affirming a landmark ruling that authorities say targeted an illegal plan to paralyze government through an unofficial primary election. The three-judge panel on Monday dismissed the appeals brought by a dozen defendants from the “Hong Kong 47” case, including veteran politician “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung, former journalist Gwyneth Ho and Australian citizen Gordon…

Democratic governors escalated demands for consumer refunds after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that former President Donald Trump exceeded his authority by invoking emergency powers to impose tariffs that reshaped global trade and drove up prices at home. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday sent Trump an invoice seeking nearly $9 billion in tariff refunds for families in his state — roughly $1,700 per Illinois household, echoing a Yale University estimate of last year’s average U.S. household burden. In a letter…

Illinois’ Pritzker demands $9B in tariff refunds from Trump after Supreme Court ruling Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday sent President Donald Trump an invoice seeking nearly $9 billion in tariff refunds for Illinois families, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the administration exceeded its authority in using emergency powers to impose broad trade duties that lifted prices at home. “Cut the check,” Pritzker urged in a letter to the White House, accusing the tariff program of “wreaking havoc on farmers,”…