Strasbourg

BRUSSELS - An international court on Thursday ordered Britain to hold off on extraditing four terrorism suspects to the United States, saying it must show that life terms without parole in maximum security prisons would not violate Europe's human rights charter.

STRASBOURG, France - The Russian government deliberately sought to "destroy" the now-defunct oil giant Yukos for political reasons, a lawyer for the company argued Thursday before the European Court of Human Rights.

STRASBOURG, France - The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday began hearing a complaint against Russia's government by representatives of now-defunct oil giant Yukos, whose jailed founder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, claims authorities illegally drove the company out of business.

STRASBOURG, France - Thousands of miles (kilometers) from the Siberian jail where its founder is imprisoned, representatives of the ruined Russian oil giant Yukos and the Russian government will meet face to face for the first time at the European Court of Human Rights this week as the dismantled company seeks to prove that its rights were violated.