The US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on Monday decided to hear the appeal of a former US Marine convicted of the 2006 murder of an Iraqi policeman. The court approved a review in the...
The Constitutional Court of Romania on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Victor Ponta and his leftist party, the Social Liberal Union (SLU), of attempting to seize control over the judiciary system. The court announced...
Two Illinois county clerks, represented by the Thomas More Society , on Friday filed a motion in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois seeking permission to defend the state's law [750 ILCS 5...
US computer chip maker Intel on Tuesday argued before the EU General Court that the European Commission used flawed and inadequate evidence when it imposed a fine against the company in 2009. Intel...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday called on member states to abolish capital punishment. He welcomed the trend of abolishing the death penalty since the UN General Assembly endorsed a...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday called on the UN member states to establish a comprehensive arms treaty to limit the flow of conventional arms to terrorists and criminal networks. Speaking at the UN Conference on the...
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday appealed last week's decision acquitting former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on one of 11 charges for...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged the government of Sri Lanka to end arrests and office raids of journalists who publish content critical of the government. HRW noted two recent instances where police raided...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday expressed concern about a proposed media law in Afghanistan that would increase government authority to regulate the press. According to HRW, the new law would place greater oversight authority...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled unanimously that the arrest and detention of Ukraine's former interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko violated several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights [text,...