China's National People's Congress (NPC) on Friday passed amendments to a law allowing elderly parents to file suit against their adult children if they feel they have been neglected or abandoned by them. While the law mandates...
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Former Galleon Group hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam on Friday agreed to pay approximately USD $1.45 million to settle an ongoing civil lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) . After the SEC...
Hobby Lobby, Inc. and Mardel Inc. announced Thursday that they will not comply with Justice Sonia Sotomayor's order that the companies provide employees with coverage for contraceptives under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...
Egypt's chief prosecutor on Thursday ordered an investigation into allegations that opposition leaders were inciting supporters to overthrow the country's president Mohammed Morsi , which amounts to treason. The investigations are against Mohammed El-Baradei, a...
Cambodia is misusing its judicial system in order to suppress dissent and thereby undermine justice, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday amid two court rulings against three individuals. In the first case, the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law Friday a recently passed bill that would prohibit United States citizens from adopting Russian children. The legislation was unanimously passed this week by...
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday that he intends to sign a recently passed bill that would prohibit United States citizens from adopting Russian children. The legislation was unanimously passed this week...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Saudi Arabia to dismiss a criminal case escalated last week to a senior Saudi court on apostasy charges. Website editor Raif Badawi, 30, was originally charged...
More than 20 civilians, including eight children, were killed in Syria's northern province of al-Raqqa, according to a video posted Wednesday by activists. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported ...
US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday denied Hobby Lobby, Inc.'s application for injunction which would have prevented enforcement of the provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [text;...
