Voters in Ireland have approved the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance aimed at improving fiscal discipline and promoting greater financial information disclosure between EU member states, according to official results Friday. In a national referendum that...

A pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday granted a request by the Libyan government to postpone an order to transfer Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , the...

The Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) , Irina Bokova , on Friday condemned the increasing number of murders of journalists in Pakistan and urged the government to investigate the crimes....

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday told officials at the Istanbul II Conference on Somalia that the Somali government must continue to work to ensure a smooth transition into permanent government and a...

The UN Human Rights Council voted to condemn Syria on Friday for killing more than 100 civilians in the Houla region of the country last week. The 47-member body voted 41-3 to approve...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday urged the government of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to ensure justice for the victims of the recently increasing...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ended its investigation into the health care conditions of incarcerated former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko , finding that the Ukrainian...

A New York state court ruled Wednesday that the family of a Holocaust survivor must return a gold tablet to a museum in Germany. The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division Second Judicial Department...

The Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of several inmates over solitary confinement policies at a California prison Security Housing Unit (SHU). The defendants are California Governor Jerry Brown, the Secretary...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled on Thursday in favor of Google in the case of Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc. . Judge...