The Islamabad Special Court on Thursday ordered the former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf to appear at a hearing on January 16 despite his lawyers' position that he is too sick to attend. According to...
Three courts in Egypt sentenced 113 supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday. In one of the largest mass trials to date, 63...
The Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL) , an independent data protection oversight authority set up by the French government, has fined Google 150,000 after Google failed to act upon CNIL's order...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced during his State of the State address on Wednesday plans for a medical marijuana pilot program which would permit up to 20 hospitals to distribute medical marijuana to patients...
The office of Utah Governor Gary Herbert on Tuesday sent an e-mail to state Cabinet members, directing them to place legal recognition of same-sex marriages within the state on hold until further notice . This directive...
Chaloka Beyani, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, on Wednesday urged the international community to assist the approximately one million individuals who have been internally displaced by the ongoing violence in the...
A Croatian court on Wednesday approved the extradition of a communist-era intelligence chief who is wanted in Germany for the killing of a Yugoslav dissident in the 1980s. Former intelligence chief Josip Perkovic was arrested on January...
A French court on Wednesday convicted Cassandra Belin for wearing a burqa in violation of the controversial law banning women from wearing full-face veils in public, rejecting her bid to have the...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Wednesday that children of married couples in Italy must be allowed to carry their mother's surname. The court found that restricting a child's surname to that...
Attorneys representing Apple on Wednesday formally sought to disqualify court-appointed "external compliance monitor" Michael Bromwich, who was given the power to review and evaluate the tech company's compliance with an injunction related to an e-book price fixing...