Venezuela's National Assembly swore in three opposition deputies on Tuesday despite a Supreme Court ruling that barred the induction of the elected lawmakers. The ruling suspended four elected lawmakers for...
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Alabama chief justice Roy Moore on Wednesday instructed state judges not to issue same-sex marriage licenses . The Alabama Supreme Court had ruled in March that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is legal, and Moore's...
Guatemalan prosecutors arrested 17 former military and government officials on Wednesday on charges of committing massacres and other human rights abuses during the Guatemalan civil war. Government security forces have been blamed for the vast majority of the...
Polish President Andrzej Duda on Thursday signed a controversial media control bill into law. Under the new law, the treasury minister will replace the National Broadcasting...
Two Yemeni men captured in Afghanistan and detained at Guantanamo Bay for 14 years have been released to Ghana, officials said Wednesday. These two are among the 17 detainees scheduled for release this month . The men...
TransCanda on Wednesday brought a lawsuit against the US Government in federal court challenging President Barack Obama's decision to reject the expansion of the Keystone pipeline. TransCanada filed its suit in the US District Court for the...
The US Congress on Wednesday sent a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to President Barrack Obama . The repeal bill is one of the first pieces of legislation against the ACA to...
A Ukrainian official said Tuesday that the nation plans to sue Russia in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on claims of financing terrorism. The claims surround the Russian annexation of Donbas and Crimea. Pavlo Petrenko, the Justice...
The Supreme Court of India upheld a temporary ban on diesel vehicles in New Delhi on Tuesday in an effort to reduce air pollution. Diesel vehicles will be forced to take alternative routes rather than simply traveling through the city....
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday in favor of a man convicted of jaywalking during a 2012 protest in Moscow. Yevgeniy Frumkin was attending a demonstration in Bolotnaya Square to challenge the reelection of...
