The International Criminal Court (ICC) will work to prosecute environmental crimes, according to a policy paper published Thursday detailing how the court will select and prioritize cases. The court made the paper available...

Chelsea Manning ended her five-day hunger strike Wednesday after the Army agreed to allow her to undergo gender reassignment surgery. Manning, a former military private serving a 35-year prison sentence on an espionage conviction...

Legislators in Turkmenistan on Wednesday amended the nation's constitution to allow President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow , to remain in power indefinitely. Berdimuhamedow praised the amendment, which not only extended the presidential term by two...

Jean Ping, an opposition leader in Gabon, has filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court in a move challenging the validity of the recent presidential vote. Ping, who was also running for president, lost in the election last week...

Prosecutors on Thursday dropped corruption charges against the former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell. The US Supreme Court had vacated his conviction in June. Based on a "careful consideration" of the Supreme Court decision and "the...

A judge for the Connecticut Superior Court Wednesday ordered school officials to overhaul the state's educational funding system, finding that the current system is unconstitutional. In his opinion, Judge Thomas Moukawsher noted that poorer areas...

A former Guantanamo detainee who was resettled in Uruguay was hospitalized and released on Tuesday after his engagement in a hunger strike left him weak. Following his release from the hospital, Abu Wa'el Dhiab resumed his hunger strike [AP...

Former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has appealed to the Federal Supreme Court following her removal from office. Arguing that her right to due process had been violated, Rousseff appealed to the Supreme Court...

The UN said on Thursday that civilians bear the biggest brunt of terrorism and violence in Iraq, reporting that civilians "accounted for more than two-thirds of those killed or injured in the month of August."...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit voided a $655 million judgment against Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority Wednesday, citing a lack of jurisdiction. The case concerned 11 US families who...