UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday called for an early general election to take place on June 8th of this year as opposed to the scheduled 2020 general election. May's decision to call for the election is...
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Advocacy groups Legal Aid Justice Center and the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia announced Monday that the US Department of Education has launched a civil rights investigation of Richmond Public Schools. The probe...
The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by a group of Central American asylum-seekers Monday who hoped the Court would overturn a lower court's ruling preventing them from having their removal orders reviewed...
Over 1,000 Palestinian political prisoners in six Israeli prisons embarked on an indefinite hunger strike starting on Monday, in observance of Palestinian Prisoners Day. The strikers say they want better medical care, more humane transfers between...
Alphabet Inc. , owner of Google, and the Russian Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) , reached an out-of-court settlement with in a dispute over Google's requiring Android phone manufacturers to pre-install its own search tool...
The under-secretary-general for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Stephen O'Brien on Sunday condemned attacks against people, including many civilians, who were fleeing the Syrian towns of Foah and Kefraya. In his...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday on Perry v. Merit Systems Protection Board, Town of Chester v. Laroe Estates, Inc. and California Public Employees’ Retirement System v. ANZ Securities, Inc. In Perry,...
Former South Korean president Guen-Hye Park was indicted on numerous corruption charges including extortion, abuse of power, and bribery on Monday. Prosecutors from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' officer also indicted Shin Dong-bin ,...
Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan , announced a victory on Sunday after 51.5 percent of Turkish voters elected to expand presidential powers. However, his political opponents are demanding a recount as some of the ballots did...
Aya Hijazi, a dual US-Egyptian citizen who has been in prison for three years in relation to her foundation dedicated to helping street children, was of acquitted all charges by a Cairo court on Sunday. Seven others, including HIzaji's husband,...
