Philip Morris Asia Ltd. (PMA) on Monday initiated legal proceedings on behalf of its Australian subsidiary Philip Morris Ltd. against the Australian government to block new plain package labeling requirements for tobacco products...

Japan's Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death sentence of Aum Shinrikyo member Seiicho Endo who was sentenced to death in 2002 following his conviction for playing a central role in two nerve...

Sri Lanka's Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) on Sunday delivered its final report on alleged abuses committed during the country's civil war to President Mahinda Rajapaksa . The LLRC is a government appointed commission that...

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Monday officially opened the trial of three former Khmer Rouge officials charged with crimes against humanity, breach of international law and genocide. Prosecutors began their...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , a UN-led scientific panel, on Saturday released the Summary for Policymakers of the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation...

Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim al-Keib on Saturday pledged that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi will receive a fair trial. A fugitive since his father's regime fell last month , the highest-profile son of deceased former dictator Muammar Gaddafi [BBC obituary;...

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday proposed a reduction in the amount of evidence they planned to present against former Serbian general and alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic [ICTY backgrounder,...

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday signed a law establishing a truth commission to investigate human rights abuses perpetrated by the military from 1946 to 1988. The bill does not, however, overturn the...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Saturday that he hopes to visit Myanmar soon, after meeting with President Thien Sein . Ban also congratulated Sein on the country's strive toward democracy, as...

As many as 50,000 protesters took to Tahrir Square in Egypt on Friday, decrying the military's continued rule over the nation since the this year's revolution, and on Saturday were met with a reported violent reprisal from police forces....