Wireless communications company Qualcomm announced Monday that the US District Court for the Southern District of California has dismissed a lawsuit against it by longtime corporate rival Broadcom asking...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a radio interview Sunday that the German government must more strictly enforce its gun-control laws. Merkel's comments came less than a week after 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer shot and...
Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani announced Monday that the government will reinstate deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry in response to recent protests by members of the Pakistan lawyers' movement [NYT backgrounder;...
The number of immigrants detained by the US has drastically increased over the last decade, according to an AP report issued Sunday. A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database, obtain by the...
A group of 16 human rights investigators and judges "shocked to the core" by the events during the most recent Gaza conflict have called for a full investigation of possible violations of the Geneva...
Pakistan opposition leader and ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday defied a house arrest order to lead a march by opposition activists and members of the Pakistan lawyers' movement ...
The Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (Tesev) issued a report Saturday saying that despite recent attempts by the country to broaden property rights for religious minorities, it still falls short...
Bolivian President Evo Morales , empowered by his country's new constitution , began redistributing land to indigenous farmers Saturday. In a ceremony on part of the land seized by the government from large...
Rights activists in Kenya have faced threats since the release in February of a UN report accusing the government of widespread extrajudicial executions, prompting some to leave the country or go into hiding ,...
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and his Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Saturday were considering offering a compromise deal to opposition factions - including members of the lawyers' movement [NYT...
