The US Supreme Court will determine whether an appeal of a capital murder conviction can continue despite the prisoner's lawyers failing to meet a paperwork deadline, in one of two cases in which the...
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The Constitutional Court of Benin on Monday confirmed provisional election results in the country's March presidential election, securing the reelection of President Thomas Boni Yayi . Yayi secured 53 percent of the vote, allowing him to...
Hundreds of people are being held without charge or trial in India's northernmost state Kashmir and Jammu, according to a report released by Amnesty International (AI) on Monday. AI reports that India's Public Safety Act...
An overwhelming majority of citizens in Egypt voted "yes" to several proposed constitutional amendments in a national referendum that took place on Saturday, according to preliminary results released Sunday. According to a source from the high judicial committee overseeing...
The Missouri House of Representatives on Thursday voted 119-38 in favor of legislation restricting late-term abortions and imposing penalties on doctors who fail to comply with the new restrictions. The legislation,...
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Friday held a debate and adopted the outcomes from its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the US. The review provided the US with 228 recommendations in 10 different...
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh declared a state of emergency throughout the country on Friday. The state of emergency will last 30 days and gives security forces greater powers to maintain order...
The UN peacekeeping operation (UNOCI) in the Ivory Coast on Thursday denounced the shelling of a market in the capital Abidjan which killed 25 to 30 civilians...
A judge for Wisconsin's Dane County Circuit Court on Friday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the state's new Budget Repair Bill . Judge Maryann Sumi's order blocked the law from being published...
US immigration enforcement agencies are overly reliant on a flawed detention system, according to a report released Thursday by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACH) . The IACH investigated six immigrant detention centers based throughout Arizona...
