The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday for a man accused of tampering with prosecution witnesses in a case against Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto [ICC backgrounder;...
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An Egyptian court on Monday upheld a one-year prison sentence against Hisham Kandil , the former prime minister of deposed leader Mohamed Morsi . Kandil was imprisoned in April for failing to follow a court order...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Monday that Turkey will end a ban on women wearing traditional Islamic headscarves in public institutions. The lifting of the ban is...
A superior court judge in California ruled Tuesday that a class of plaintiffs cannot recover any money against the tobacco company Philip Morris USA . The plaintiffs in the case argued that Philip...
An appellate court in Sweden reduced the prison sentence of Gottfrid Svartholm Warg , the founder of the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) , for hacking into a company that manages data for...
Voters in Ticino , an Italian-speaking region of Switzerland, approved a referendum on Sunday to ban the wearing of full-face veils. Although the referendum does not explicitly target Muslims, it drew outrage from Muslim...
An Egyptian court on Monday banned the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets confiscated as part of the military government's crackdown on the group. The Cairo administrative court declared that its ruling would apply...
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) released a previously classified opinion on Tuesday explaining why a National Security Agency (NSA) program to keep records of Americans' phone calls is constitutional. The opinion, written...
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) , the tribunal covering the Khmer Rouge trials said Wednesday that it has obtained a loan to pay the overdue salaries of its workers....
A judge in London ruled on Monday that a Muslim woman who is a defendant in an upcoming trial must remove her full-face veil when presenting evidence. A judge for the Blackfriars Crown Court held that...
