Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights groups on Monday filed an emergency request with the US Supreme Court to reinstate a previous injunction blocking the implementation of a Texas law ...
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The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases. In Walden v. Fiore the court heard arguments on two questions of venue and jurisdiction . Gina...
The US Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a case concerning an attempt by the Oklahoma state government to resurrect a state law that limited the uses of the abortion drug RU-486 . The...
Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf was granted bail on Monday in a criminal case relating to the death of radical cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi during an operation ordered by Musharraf on Islamabad's Red Mosque,...
The Irish Convention on the Constitution voted Sunday in favor of recommending that the offense of blasphemy in the Irish Constitution be altered and replaced with a new general provision to include...
The trial of Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi for inciting the murder of several protesters began on Monday but was adjourned until January. According to Egyptian news sources, Morsi rejected the court's authority by refusing...
The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Sunday sentenced two men to death for crimes during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. The court found Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan, both members of...
A Kenyan court on Monday charged four people with aiding terrorism relating to a four-day siege at a Nairobi shopping mall last month. The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the attack, in...
President Barack Obama on Friday established by Executive Order a Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience. The task force, with members including state, local and tribal officials and executive agencies, is to advise the federal...
Kosovo on Sunday held its first elections for mayors and local councilors since the country's secession from Serbia . The elections, facilitated by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) , are mandated...
