The US government on Friday dropped all charges against a Kuwaiti national being held in Guantanamo Bay . Faiz al Kandari, who previously lost a petition for habeas corpus, was never formally brought to trial. His case was...
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North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue on Sunday vetoed a bill that would have lifted a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the state. Fracking is the process of injecting a high...
The Libyan government on Monday released four International Criminal Court (ICC) staff members who had been detained for nearly four weeks. The release was announced while the ICC's president, Sang-Hyun Song, was visiting the country....
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Sunday told reporters that attacks by Islamist rebels on religious monuments in Mali will not be tolerated. Bensouda said that...
The Supreme Court of Israel on Sunday postponed the demolition of illegal settlements in the West Bank . The Supreme Court had ordered the 30 apartments in Ulpana neighborhood to be destroyed by...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Sunday issued a temporary injunction blocking a controversial Mississippi abortion law that was scheduled to go into effect...
A Chinese court on Monday confirmed a settlement reached last week in the trademark case between Apple and Shenzhen Proview Technology . The Guangdong Hich People's Court said that Apple has agreed to pay USD $60 million [NYT...
The UN-backed Action Group on Syria generated an agreement on Saturday designed to aid Syria in ending the violence that has occurred in the country over the last 16 months. The plan outlines...
Amnesty International (AI) issued a statement today advocating for governments to more fully support the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The statement, which marked the tenth anniversary of the ICC coming into effect,...
The UN Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises expressed its concern on Friday that Rio+20 , the recent UN Conference on Sustainable Development, failed to expressly state that businesses...
