Egypt's interim government, the Cabinet of Ministers decided at Thursday's meeting to begin measures to end Egypt's state of emergency that has been in effect for nearly 30 years. The...
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The Alabama Attorney General's Office on Wednesday requested that a certified question be answered by the Alabama Supreme Court before the legal battle over the state's controversial immigration law commences in the...
A representative for the UN Mission in the Ivory Coast (MINUCI) confirmed that forces loyal to President Alassane Ouattara are continuing to kill civilians and opposition members in his name, with...
Amnesty International (AI) called Wednesday for justice system reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) . The report states that the justice system has allowed the Congolese army and other armed groups to...
A class action lawsuit filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California alleges that Apple and five major publishers colluded to illegally fix electronic book (e-book) prices. The...
Pakistan extradited Umar Patek, the confessed bomb maker in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombing , to Indonesia on Thursday. Patek will be charged under the Indonesian criminal code rather than its terrorism laws. Reportedly, he...
A Pennsylvania judge was sentenced Wednesday to 28 years in prison for his participation in a juvenile sentencing scandal . Mark Ciavarella Jr., a former judge in Pennsylvania's Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas , was...
The state of Arizona on Wednesday filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the US Supreme Court seeking to overturn a lower court decision enjoining four provisions of Arizona's controversial immigration law [SB 1070...
A Vietnam court sentenced blogger and professor Pham Minh Hoang , alias Phan Kien Quoc, to three years in prison Wednesday for anti-government articles, accusing him of "attempted subversion." Hoang reportedly joined the pro-democracy group Viet Tan...
The son of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo , Michel Gbagbo, and 12 other Gbagbo allies were charged Wednesday with committing acts of post-election violence . The 13 men are charged with armed insurrection and...
