The Guinea Supreme Court on Tuesday announced the final election results in last month's presidential election, in which no candidate received enough votes to avoid a runoff. The ruling comes after allegations of fraud in...
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A lawsuit was filed Tuesday against BP in a Louisiana state court alleging that the company's negligent actions led to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and that BP was also negligent in...
The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday allowed Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr to amend his 2004 habeas corpus petition, but refused...
Human rights organization AIDS-Free World on Wednesday renewed calls for an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into allegations of rape and torture in Zimbabwe prior to the 2008 presidential elections ....
The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday reversed the acquittal of former Kosovo Albanian military leader Ramush Haradinaj ...
Spain's lower house of parliament, the Congress of Deputies , on Tuesday rejected a proposal to ban the burqa and other full face veils, by...
UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay Tuesday issued a warning about ongoing human rights violations in Kyrgyzstan following the recent ethnic violence in the country. According to Pillay, security forces in the southern...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Tuesday rejected an appeal by a Dutch businessman convicted of selling chemicals used by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to create chemical weapons....
The US Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday voted 13-6 to send the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan to the full Senate. The vote divided largely along party lines, with Democrats...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Monday that two more detainees have been released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Abd-al-Nisr Mohammed Khantumani was released to Cape Verde, while Abdul Aziz...
