Spanish authorities announced Wednesday that they have arrested seven men in Barcelona suspected of aiding in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that killed 166. Spain's Ministry of the Interior confirmed...
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday urged the Indonesian government to repeal two Sharia laws that the group says violate human rights and international treaties. The laws, local to the Aceh province, require...
US Air Force Major Margaret Witt, who was discharged under the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (DADT) policy, will become the first openly gay person to serve in the US military after...
A court in Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday sentenced 19 ethnic Uzbeks for their involvement in the June 2010 ethnic violence that resulted in more than 300 deaths and an additional 2,000 injuries. Seventeen of the...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against Michigan government officials, claiming that the state's juvenile sentencing laws are...
Government officials in Madagascar spoke Thursday with military officers who attempted a coup on Wednesday during the country's constitutional referendum. General Noel Rakotonandrasana allegedly led a group of about 20 soldiers into the capital city and...
Trials began Wednesday in Kyrgyzstan for former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev and his administration officials who have been charged with mass murder. The charges stem from an April 7 incident in which police...
The Supreme Court of the Republic of China Thursday reduced the 12-year prison sentences for former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian and his wife to 11 years each for bribery charges....
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) faces harmful opposition and political interference from the Cambodian government, the chief defense lawyer said Wednesday. Announcing his resignation, Richard Rogers said that the tribunal,...
Afghanistan's Attorney General's (AG) office announced Wednesday it will investigate possible voter fraud committed by the country's election commission after the parliamentary election held in September. A deputy attorney general said that the office has received complaints...
