A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Wednesday held that Microsoft has infringed on a patent of Canadian company i4i with portions of its Word 2007...
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Right-wing nativist and so-called "patriot" anti-government militias are again on the rise in the US, according to a Wednesday report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) . The SPLC said that such groups,...
The US District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday enjoined the technology company RealNetworks from selling its DVD copying software, RealDVD. Judge Marilyn Patel held that the RealDVD software violated...
A federal court in Atlanta on Wednesday found American Ehsanul Islam Sadequee guilty on four terrorism-related counts. Sadequee was convicted in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia of providing material support...
The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, on Tuesday pardoned 2,500 people arrested in the city during nonviolent civil rights protests in the 1960s. Announcing the pardons at a city council meeting, Mayor Larry Langford said that the city...
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Jakob Kellenberger on Wednesday called for greater compliance with the Geneva Conventions , making the documents' 60th anniversary . Kellenberger said that the conventions were...
The Supreme Court of Argentina ruled Tuesday that individuals cannot be required to submit blood samples to test whether they were abducted as children during the "Dirty War" . The court issued two...
Pakistani police on Tuesday filed charges against former president Pervez Musharraf alleging that he illegally detained members of the judiciary after declaring emergency rule in November 2007. Sixty judges, including Supreme Court...
Lawyers for Myanmar opposition pro-democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi and American John Yettaw said Wednesday that they will file appeals against Tuesday's guilty verdicts . Suu Kyi and Yettaw were convicted of...
Chechen human rights activist Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov were found dead in the trunk of their car Tuesday, after being abducted Monday. Saulayeva and Dzhabrailov were taken from the office of her organization,...
