A Turkish court ordered the arrest of Cumhuriyet journalist Mustafa Balbay Thursday for his alleged involvement in a plot to overthrow the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) . Balbay was arrested ...
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The US Supreme Court on Friday granted a motion by the US government to dismiss as moot an appeal challenging the indefinite detention of suspected al Qaeda operative Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri...
Defense lawyers for former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Friday sought to have new charges of embezzlement and money laundering against Khordorkovsky and his former business partner Platon Lebedev dropped. The two men are accused...
The European Union (EU) announced Friday that it has entered into an agreement with Kenya to transfer suspected pirates captured by EU counter-pirate operations into Kenyan custody for prosecution. The agreement...
UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston on Friday called for an independent investigation into the Thursday killings of Kenyan human rights activists Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulu. The...
A panel of legal and medical experts headed by Spanish Minister of Equality Bibiano Aido on Wednesday proposed sweeping reforms to Spain's current abortion laws. The panel contends...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights spokesman Rupert Colville said Friday that his office may investigate whether Sudan's expulsion of foreign aid agencies is a possible breach of human rights law or war crime. Colville...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday held a hearing to reconsider California's request to regulate automobile greenhouse gases . Chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board Mary Nichols was joined by environmental...
The Sri Lankan government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) should agree on an evacuation plan for civilians caught in hostilities between the groups in the country's...
The California Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments in three cases challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8 , the ballot measure passed in November that banned same-sex marriage in the...
