Foreign Policy and National Security
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. and General Electric Co. on Monday dodged a $1 billion lawsuit by U.S. sailors over radiation injuries they allegedly suffered during their response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, after a California federal judge agreed the suit belonged in Japanese, not U.S., courts… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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An Argentine federal court on Thursday convicted several individuals of meddling with the official investigation into the South American country’s deadliest incident of terrorism, the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires of the AMIA Jewish community center that killed more than 80 people… Read this piece in its entirety at LobeLog.
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The U.S. Department of Labor announced on Tuesday a proposal to stop processing applications for H-2B visas on a first-come-first-served basis, instead assigning the applications a random place in the processing queue… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Canada’s Banro Corp. won’t face a suit in New York federal court alleging the mining company lied to investors about its operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a judge ruled Thursday that those claims were resolved last year in bankruptcy proceedings in Canada… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is facing the possibility of spending nearly a quarter-century behind bars for bank and tax fraud, and special counsel Robert Mueller’s office said Friday it didn’t see “any mitigating factors” that the Virginia federal court should consider when handing down a final sentence… Read this piece in its…
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