The Bahrain government's indiscriminate use of tear gas against protesters is resulting in severe injuries and civilian deaths, according to a report released Wednesday by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) . According to PHR...
The Somalia constituent assembly on Wednesday approved a new constitution for the country, which has been without a stable central government since former president Siad Barre was ousted in 1991. The draft constitution passed...
Supporters of Proposition 8 , California's same-sex marriage ban, asked the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold the law after two federal courts found it unconstitutional. In their nearly 500-page petition...
The High Court of Fiji on Tuesday found Laisenia Qarase , the country's last democratically-elected prime minister, guilty of nine counts of corruption under the Fiji Penal Code . Suva Court Justice Priyantha...
The Court of Appeals in Kenya on Tuesday upheld a lower court's decision to set the date of the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections for March 4, 2013. Four of the five judges sitting for the Court of Appeals,...