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Governor appears in court over land seizure dispute

​A deputy provincial governor in Guizhou Province appeared in court on Monday over a land seizure dispute with a farmer, a remarkable event since China changed the law last year to make it easier for citizens to sue the government.

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Brunei 2016 auto show launched

The four-day Auto Show is an exhibition of automobiles, motorbikes and sports cars available in Brunei.

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Indian court sentences 47 policemen to life in fake gunfight case

An Indian court Monday sentenced 47 policemen to life for killing 11 Sikh pilgrims in staged gunfights after labeling them as terrorists, 25 years ago, officials said.

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Google also has been ordered to help unlock phones, records show

Google has been repeatedly ordered to help federal agents open cellphones, according to court records in seven states that show Apple isn’t the only company facing government demands at the center of a fierce debate over privacy and security.

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F.B.I. clash with Apple loosed a torrent of possible ways to hack an iPhone

For weeks, the United States government has said that the only way to open an iPhone used by a gunman in a mass shooting was to get Apple’s help, a position that set off a clash between the technology giant and law enforcement.

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Death toll of NW Pakistan court blast rises to 16

Death toll of the suicide blast in Pakistan's northwest Charsadda district has risen to 16, police said.Sohail Khalid, the District Police Officer (D.P.O), said that 22 people were also injured in the blast which was carried out by a suicide bomber.

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Trial of student protest leader Joshua Wong for break-in begins

More than 20 witnesses will link a trio of student protest leaders to the break-in at the Legislative Council grounds — which sparked nearly three months of civil disobedience, traffic jams and disruptions to schools, businesses and trade in 2014.

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Apple goes to court, and F.B.I. presses congress to settle iPhone privacy fight

The legal wrangling over a federal court order requiring Apple to help law enforcement break into an iPhone intensified Thursday, with the company filing its formal response and asking the court to drop its demand.

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U.S. govt files motion to compel Apple to work with FBI

​The Department of Justice on Friday filed a motion to compel Apple to comply with a court order to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) access data on an iPhone owned by a terrorist killer.

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China court releases man after 21 years on death row

​An east China court on Monday announced that it had quashed the conviction of a man sentenced to death 21 years ago.

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German Internet mogul must face U.S. piracy charges: New Zealand court

A German millionaire should be sent to the United States to face charges of Internet piracy, a New Zealand judge ruled Wednesday.

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S. Korea-born Canadian pastor sentenced for life in DPRK

​A South Korea-born Canadian pastor was sentenced to lifetime labor for subversion, the supreme court of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced Wednesday.

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E-courts promise online justice for Chinese shoppers

As Chinese increasingly turn to the Internet for shopping, it's appropriate that many lawsuits over their purchases are now being handled entirely online.

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Top court sentences student to death for killing roommate

China's top court approved the death sentence of a former medical student who poisoned his roommate, a lawyer for the family said on Wednesday.

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Philippine court finds U.S. Marine guilty of killing Filipino transgender

A Philippine lower court sentenced Tuesday an American serviceman of six years to 12 years imprisonment for killing a Filipino transgender last year.

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U.S. government reveals breadth of requests for Internet records

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has used a secretive authority to compel Internet and telecommunications firms to hand over customer data including an individual’s complete web browsing history and records of all online purchases, a court filing released Monday shows.

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E. China high court goes online via Alibaba

Alibaba has joined with the higher court of east China's Zhejiang Province to launch an online court for e-commerce disputes on Tuesday.