UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday said that a team of experts will be sent to Tunisia within the next week to assess the human rights priorities and meet with interim...
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The Obama administration may increase its use of controversial military commissions for Guantanamo Bay detainees, according to a New York Times report Wednesday. Per the report, administration officials plan to...
The UK Court of Appeal on Thursday found in favor of Finnish telecommunications company Nokia in its most recent patent suit against German intellectual property firm IPCom GmbH & Co . The ruling ...
A key defendant in the Galleon Group insider trading case pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of conspiracy to commit securities fraud before judge Richard Holwell of the US District Court for the Southern District of New...
UN rights officials on Wednesday expressed "grave concerns" over continued post-election violence in the Ivory Coast , cautioning that genocide could be imminent . During a daily briefing, UN Special Advisor on Genocide Francis...
Accused Arizona gunman Jared Lee Loughner was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Tuscon, Arizona. He is charged with attempting to assassinate a member of Congress [18 USC...
Four people, including former UN spokesperson Michele Montas, filed criminal complaints on Wednesday against former Haitian president Jean-Claude Duvalier . Montas, who worked for the UN under Ban-Ki Moon, as well as Alix Fils-Aime and...
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Tuesday that California state employees can sue for discrimination over the exclusion of their same-sex spouses from long-term health care programs. The Obama...
Lawyers for Google on Wednesday filed an appeal in Spanish court hoping to overturn orders from Spanish authorities to remove websites that allegedly violate privacy rights. Spain's Data Protection Agency filed 90...
Human rights groups are calling for Lithuania to reopen its investigation into whether the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had a secret prison in the country. Statements from Amnesty International (AI) and Reprieve say that...
