The Jerusalem District Court on Monday sentenced former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert to a one-year suspended sentence and a fine of about USD $19,000 on a charge of...
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The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on Thursday welcomed Pakistan's "declared will" to address the issue of enforced disappearances in the country but concluded that "serious challenges remain" ....
A judge for the Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday denied a request for a temporary restraining order to remove a controversial anti-Islam film on YouTube that has sparked violent protests throughout the Muslim world....
The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Monday called on Libyan authorities to implement a transitional justice strategy in order to rebuild and reshape its decades-long history of dictatorial cruelty and last...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday suspended litigation between the Authors Guild and Google pending an appeal of a May ruling allowing a class action lawsuit ...
The US House of Representatives on Wedneday voted to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act of 2008 (FISA) , a highly contested law designed as a national security protection against terrorism and other foreign threats....
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday told a special session of the Human Rights Council that 16 nations have failed to prevent members of their own governments from intimidating and...
The Budapest Chief Prosecutor on Monday announced charges against a near-91-year-old former communist interior minister for war crimes in connection with the killing of more than 50 civilians demonstrating against the Hungarian regime in 1956....
The US Department of State on Friday said that former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo should be immune from a Connecticut lawsuit filed over the 1997 killings of 45 people...
The Fair Trade Commission of Korea (KFTC) on Thursday said that South Korean regulators are investigating an Apple complaint alleging that Samsung Electronics is unfairly competing in the market to the disadvantage of its competitors....
