The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ruled in favor of tight regulations pointed at the for-profit college industry. The court ruled that the Education Department has the right to demand...

Human rights groups Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday issued a joint letter to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) calling for the creation of a special prosecutor to investigate...

London's Metropolitan Police announced Tuesday that it has arrested Rwanda National Intelligence and Security Services head Karenzi Karake on an international warrant for war crimes. The European Arrest Warrant was issued in 2008 by Spanish...

China's anti-corruption Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on Tuesday announced the launch of investigations into 26 government agencies and state-owned-enterprises (SOEs). The entities to be investigated include People's Daily Newspaper , Anshan Iron...

UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein announced Tuesday the opening of a UN office to specifically monitor human rights in North Korea (DPRK). The UN Human Rights Office (Seoul) will...

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic released a report Tuesday stating that both government troops and opposition rebels are targeting civilians in Syria's civil war.The report says that the...

The State Administrative Court of Jakarta on Monday denied the clemency appeal of a French citizen sentenced to death on a drug trafficking charge. The appeal of Serge Atlaoui was an effort to reverse the...

The Supreme Court of North Korea on Tuesday sentenced two South Korean men to indefinite labor on subversion charges, according to the Korean Central News Agency of North Korea. Kim Kuk Gi and Choe Chun Gil...

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on Monday released a report calling on Ireland to "take all necessary steps, including a referendum on abortion, to revise its legislation on abortion." The committee...

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in Kingdomware Technologies v. United States , a case that deals with the rights of small-business-owning veterans to receive benefits from the Department...