Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced through his spokesperson Thursday that he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from Guerrero. The announcement comes...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled Wednesday that the Fifth Amendment protects the right of insider trading suspects to withhold the passcodes to their business cell...

A North Carolina Superior Court judge on Wednesday refused to dismiss a case challenging the state's new voter identification requirement. Recently, North Carolina reformed its voter ID law by creating a provision that...

A Bolivian legislative committee approved a bill on Tuesday to amend the constitution to extend presidential terms, allowing current President Evo Morales and his vice president to run for a fourth consecutive term in office. The president's party, Movement...

Members of the guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government reached an agreement on Wednesday regarding punishing civil rights abuses, a move commended by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon . The two...

In his first interview since being released from prison to house arrest in August 2014, leading Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng told the Associated Press that he was subject to torture. Zhisheng revealed that while he was...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday ordered the release of Sudanese funds held by New York banks to satisfy a $315 million default judgment in the USS Cole case. The...

The Supreme Court of Cyprus unanimously ruled Thursday that Deputy Attorney General Rikkos Erotokritou should be impeached for his inappropriate actions when he accused Attorney General Costas Clerides of bribery during...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi pardoned two Al Jazeera journalists Wednesday who had been sentenced in late August for releasing video footage that allegedly contained false news in support of the Muslim Brotherhood ....

A group of UN human rights experts on Tuesday urged authorities in Saudi Arabia to block the execution of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr , who was convicted of involvement in the Arab Spring protests when he was...