Two senior opposition leaders in Bangladesh on Sunday were executed for war crimes committed during the country's 1971 war of independence with Pakistan. One of the men, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, was sentenced for crimes that included murdering Bengali nationalists...
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President Obama, on Sunday, ordered an assessment of whether intelligence reports from US Central Command (Centcom) were changed by supervisory military personnel before formal submission to present a more optimistic picture of the American military campaign against...
The Iranian state news service on Sunday announced the sentencing of a Washington Post journalist to an unspecified prison term after he was convicted on charges that include espionage. Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi, the spokesman for...
Janos Pasztor, the UN Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change, on Friday, announced that the upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris on November 30th must serve as the turning point for climate law throughout the...
Narcotics detective Damacio Diaz of the Bakersfield Police Department (BPD) in California was arrested on Friday on charges of bribery, drug trafficking, obstruction and filing false tax returns. The 16-count indictment, announced by...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday heard oral argument in a challenge to a Federal judge's authority to issue a ruling that struck down modifications to firearm possession laws in...
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the UN General Assembly on Friday and cautioned the international community to avoid discrimination against Muslims, especially refugees and migrants entering Europe, as a result...
The United Nations Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a new resolution calling on all member states to fight to eradicate the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) . Introduced...
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday that the constitution does not require the Alberta legislature to enact laws in both French and English. French speakers, Gilles Caron and Pierre Boutet, challenged traffic tickets they were...
Lawyers for the Obama administration on Friday asked the US Supreme Court to uphold the president's changes to US immigration policy. Earlier this month the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ...
