Saudi Arabia has intensified its arrests and convictions of human rights advocates and dissenting writers in 2017, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday. In January a Saudi court sentenced two human rights activists to long...

Romania's Justice Minister Florin Iordache, the man who originally introduced the corruption decree that sparked large protests , announced on Monday morning that he would soon publish details of an alternative bill to update the criminal...

A report released Monday by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse revealed that 4,444 people alleged sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Australia between January 1985 and February 2015. Looking at data...

The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit received two separate filings Monday from officials in the public and private sectors who oppose President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration. The appellate court is considering a...

China said Sunday it would begin imposing harsh punishments on those involved with illegal financing activities, with a particular focus on underground banking and the stock market, following a string of scandals. In particular, the state news agency...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Friday ordered Google to disclose certain information found in foreign-stored e-mails, as requested by an FBI search warrant. This decision...

The government of Romania on Saturday repealed a decree enacted earlier in the week that had decriminalized corruption offenses and official misconduct in which the damages were less than €44,000. Since the enactment, protesters had taken to the...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Saturday denied the Trump administration's motion to reinstate immigration restrictions until the case could be heard by the court. The emergency motion to reinstate...

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló , on Friday approved a law to hold nonbinding referendum that would allow the US territory to vote on statehood. The referendum, to be...

US President Donald Trump on Friday issued an executive order and a presidential memorandum with orders aimed at an incremental dismantling of the Obama administration's financial regulations. Trump's orders direct his administration to review the regulations put in...