A Thai court on Thursday convicted Pojamarn Shinawatra , the wife of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra , of tax evasion for transferring $16.3 million worth of stock to her step-brother and...
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Australian Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Chris Evans has announced that the country will no longer impose mandatory detention on all those who enter the country seeking asylum. Evans said Tuesday that the...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Tuesday ruled that a lower court had erroneously dismissed a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit seeking to prevent Whole Foods Market from...
The US House of Representatives late Tuesday approved by voice vote a resolution apologizing to African Americans for slavery and Jim Crow laws . The resolution declares:That the House of Representatives--(1) acknowledges that slavery...
The Massachusetts House of Representatives Tuesday voted 119-36 for a bill that would repeal a 1913 law barring people from marrying in Massachusetts if their own state would not recognize such a union....
The Constitutional Court of Turkey Wednesday rejected a bid to ban the country's ruling Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) , which was accused of ignoring the secular principles of...
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court Wednesday ruled that state laws banning smoking in bars are unconstitutional as they now stand. Smoking in public places is regulated on a state-by-state...
The Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina Tuesday delivered its first sentences of war crimes suspects from Yugoslavia's violent ethnic conflicts of the 1990s, convicting seven of genocide ...
The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) has announced that health insurance company BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York has agreed to extend health-care benefits to spouses in validly married same-sex couples....
Officials from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) have filed a motion with the US Supreme Court requesting permission to petition for rehearing in Kennedy v. Louisiana , in which the...
