An Iranian court has sentenced Qorban Behzadiannejad, the campaign manager for opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi during the 2009 election , to five years in prison, opposition website Kaleme reported [Kaleme...
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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) concluded its 77th session Friday by expressing concern with the discrimination faced by Roma migrants in numerous European countries, focusing on France's recent...
Members of the UN Security Council expressed "outrage" Thursday over a recent mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) , calling for justice for the victims....
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday appealed a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that the agency's television indecency rule is unconstitutionally vague in violation of...
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki signed a new constitution into law Friday as part of a reform movement aimed at curbing vast presidential powers. Kenya's new constitution includes numerous checks on presidential authority , among...
US District Judge Laurie Smith Camp ruled Wednesday that the Nebraska Supreme Court should be the first forum to address a city of Fremont ordinance banning the hiring, harboring or renting of property to...
Bosnia and Herzegovina's Presidency Chairman Zeljko Komsic announced Thursday that Spanish officials extradited accused Montenegrin war criminal Veselin Vlahovic to Sarajevo. Vlahovic, known as the "monster of Grbavica," is wanted on...
Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that they would dismiss all charges against Robert Blagojevich, the brother of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich . Robert Blagojevich faced four counts for his suspected involvement in the alleged conspiracy to sell...
The EU Parliament Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats on Thursday accused France of violating EU law by deporting up to 1,000 Roma migrants from the country. The group...
The German Federal Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that German courts must follow precedent established by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) unless it is clearly a...
