The High Court of Kanartaka , on Monday cleared former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa Jayaram, of all corruption charges on appeal. In the judgment , Justice CR Kumaraswamy wrote that the lower court ruling "suffer...

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday expressed concern over attacks in Mali in which members of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) were specifically targeted,...

The United Nations (UN) on Friday reported that the intense fighting in Yemen has claimed the lives of approximately 551 civilians, 115 of which were children. Rupert Colville, the spokesperson for the Office of the...

Kuwait's supreme court on Monday ordered the release on bail of former opposition leader Musallam al-Barrak , accused of insulting the country's leader. Al-Barrak has a hearing scheduled for May 18 in which the court...

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed House Bill 1 on Thursday to legalize medical marijuana in the US state of Georgia. The approved legislation is effective immediately and allows for patients suffering from cancer, Crohn's disease, glaucoma...

A UN rights expert said Monday that the civilian refugees from Palestine and Syria trapped inside the Yarmouk refugee camp have suffered "untold indignities" . There are approximately 18,000 people within the Yarmouk refugee...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Thursday criticized Malaysia's proposed anti-terrorism law , known as the Prevention of Terrorism Act . Zeid said that the proposed law threatens freedom...

A Pakistan court on Thursday ordered the release of the main suspect in the 2008 attacks in Mumbai , Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi. The order came less than a month after Pakistan authorities reordered his detention [JURIST...

A Bangladeshi appeals court on Monday rejected a final appeal by Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, an Islamist party official convicted of war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War , upholding his death sentence. Kamaruzzaman can seek presidential clemency,...

The Sudanese government's "crackdown on independent media and civil society" will have a chilling effect on political speech, Amnesty International (AI) warned Thursday. AI said the situation is particularly troublesome as Sudan's general elections will...