A UN human rights expert on Thursday condemned Iraq for the executions of 21 people on Monday and five more people on Wednesday. UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Chistof Heyns urged...
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The California State Assembly approved a bill on Thursday that allows some illegal immigrants who came to the US as children to obtain driver's licenses. The bill, which the state Senate approved...
Officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) were in Mali on Friday investigating whether two Islamic groups, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad and Ansar Dine, have committed war crimes in Mali. According to Malian officials the Islamic groups...
A Tokyo court on Friday dismissed a claim by Apple that Samsung Electronics violated Apple's patents with its smartphones and tablets. The technology at issued involved synchronizing music and video data . The judge stated that...
Mexico's Electoral Tribunal on Thursday upheld the results of the country's recent presidential election, after finding that there was no evidence that the winning candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto [campaign website, in...
The former secretary for the political party of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was referred to a criminal court for corruption charges on Wednesday. Safwat El-Sherif is accused of abusing his office [Ahram...
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) would close its investigation into the CIA's alleged torture and abuse of detainees, with no criminal charges to be brought...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Delaware on Thursday struck down the Delaware Chancery Court procedure allowing for closed-door arbitrations for large business disputes. In a 26-page decision Judge Mary...
An independent UN human rights expert on Thursday condemned Israel's dismissal of a civil suit brought by the family of an American peace activist. UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Richard Falk criticized the...
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday urged authorities in the former Yugoslavia to investigate the enforced disappearances of 14,000 people who are still unaccounted for since the civil war in the 1990s. The report ...
