Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday urged Syria to release a prominent human rights lawyer and his friend believed to be detained by security forces. AI contends that both men should be released immediately unless they...
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Google and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) on Thursday announced a settlement over Google's book-scanning initiative . Authors and publishers have alleged that Google was illegally profiting off of their works by...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) due to the plaintiffs' lack of...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday urged Serbia to protect universal freedoms and allow a banned pride parade for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. The pride parade, which was...
The war crimes court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Wednesday acquitted two Serbian defendants of involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . Dragan Neskovic and Zoran Ilic were charged with...
An anti-graft court in the Philippines on Thursday ordered the arrest of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in a corruption case alleging the misuse of state lottery funds. This is the third corruption case pending...
An Iraqi court on Wednesday sentenced an American citizen to life in prison for funding terrorist activities in Iraq and aiding al Qaeda. Iraq's central criminal court convicted Omar Rashad Khalil following a confession he made in...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Montana on Wednesday ruled that a state law that limits campaign contributions violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in two cases. In Johnson v. Williams the court heard arguments on whether a state court can "adjudicate on the merits"...
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling that permitted an Ohio law limiting the use of the "abortion pill." The law requires that the...
