Supreme Court

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to move aggressively on a conservative agenda in filling Supreme Court vacancies, cracking down on immigration and cutting taxes, but also sought to reassure worried Americans they have nothing to fear from his presidency.

Donald Trump’s first televised interview since his ‘shock’ election victory this past Friday has brought some insight into what shape his White House tenure might take following a presidential campaign fraught with controversial and frequently troubling rhetoric.

Last Tuesday night, I went to bed thinking that I would probably wake up to a world with Hillary Clinton as the next American president. I woke up instead, of course, to Donald Trump as the next American president. It was a big surprise, of course, if not a shock. But I told myself, as I later told others, "Don't panic, it probably won't be that bad." 

The High Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) has concluded that the six judges and two prosecutors who worked on the Ergenekon case, prosecuting 274 suspects on charges of attempting to overthrow the government of the time, were serving the movement of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen. 

A court in Bihac has jailed two Bosnian Serbs, Goran Sovilj and Petar Galic for ten and seven years respectively for killing a Bosniak civilian, Mehmed Harambasic, and pillaging his property in Kljuc in 1992.

Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou has asked the country's counterterrorism service to investigate allegations made earlier in the week by the jailed founder and leader of the now defunct November 17 terror group that there were still eight members at large.

Greece's Union of Judges and Prosecutors (EDE) on Tuesday attacked an initiative by top judicial officials to set up a new union as an opportunistic move that risked causing a rift in their community.

A council of appeals court judges on Tuesday ordered the extradition to Cyprus of Greek businessman Michalis Zolotas in connection with an alleged bribe paid to former Cyprus Central Bank governor Christodoulos Christodoulou.

The Supreme Court of Cassation (VKS) on Tuesday overturned a 10-year imprisonment sentence ruled for former intelligence head Kircho Kirov, BGNES wire service reports.

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Nov. 4 told European leaders that her March deadline for triggering Brexit negotiations "remains unchanged" despite a court ruling that she first needs parliament's approval, AFP reported.