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Bilateral talks best option to solve South China Sea dispute

"Bilateral agreement is the best solution" for resolving the dispute in the South China Sea, Spanish political scientist and PhD in Intercultural Studies Marc Selgas Cors said in a recent interview with Xinhua.

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Chinese environmental protection agency loses landmark case proving dereliction of duty

Department in Shandong province ruled to have failed to take tough enough action against sewage company in case brought by Chinese prosecutors.

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Chinese courts bring trials online

Imagine a court trial online -- not only a live broadcast of a hearing, but a court debate in an online chat room with the plaintiff, defendant and judge all sitting before computer screens.

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Top court retries rape, murder case, doubts execution

The Supreme People's Court (SPC) will rehear a two-decades-old rape and murder case, in which a man was found guilty and executed, over concerns that the evidence presented was insufficient.

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Investigation on Lei Yang's death: seeking justice via legal procedures

The People's Procuratorate of Beijing Municipality said on Wednesday that it was investigating five people, including at least one police officer, in relation to the mysterious death of 29-year-old Lei Yang. Lei died shortly after he was taken away by plainclothes police on suspicion of visiting prostitutes on May 7, 2016.

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Six of 33 gang-rape suspects captured by police in Brazil

Brazil's police launched an operation on Monday to successfully capture six men wanted for their alleged involvement in gang raping a 16-year-old girl on May 21, a case which has shocked the South American country.

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NGOs take chemical factories to court

Environmental NGOs are suing three chemical plants in a high-profile case of alleged soil contamination that may have affected students at a school in eastern China.

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Luxury karaoke club raid leads to dozens of arrests

​A luxury night club in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, was raided on Thursday night for providing sex services.

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Arbitration case ticking time bomb against Philippines: columnist

​The South China Sea arbitration case the Philippines filed is like a ticking time bomb working against the country, a columnist wrote on Saturday.

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Brazil's attorney general issues injunction to halt Rousseff impeachment

​In a last-minute move to halt the Senate voting which may suspend President Dilma Rousseff from office, Brazil's attorney general filed on Tuesday an injunction trying to cancel the impeachment process.

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Apple opposes U.S. appeal over iPhone in New York drug case

Apple said the U.S. government had failed to show a continued need for its help accessing a locked iPhone in a New York drug case after a third party came forward with a solution to crack a different phone belonging to one of the shooters in December's San Bernardino killings.

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F.B.I. used hacking software decade before iPhone fight

Agents had been intercepting phone calls and emails belonging to members of an animal welfare group that was believed to be sabotaging operations of a company that was using animals to test drugs.

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Snowden: FBI's claim it can't unlock the San Bernardino iPhone is 'bullshit'

NSA whistleblower rubbishes claims that only Apple can unlock killer’s iPhone 5C, indicating FBI has the means itself

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Justice dept. appeals ruling in Apple iPhone case in Brooklyn

In the latest volley in its high-profile fight with Apple, the Justice Department said on Monday that a federal judge in Brooklyn had erred last week in refusing to order the company to unlock a drug dealer’s iPhone.

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Apple is rolling up supporters in privacy fight against F.B.I.

Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and a parade of other technology companies filed a barrage of court briefs on Thursday, aiming to puncture the United States government’s legal arguments against Apple in a case that will test the limits of the authorities’ access to personal data.