Portugal's Constitutional Court struck down an austerity measure Thursday that had given private companies greater latitude to fire employees. The changes to the labor code were adopted last year and allowed for private...
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) Monday excused Kenyan deputy president William Ruto from trial proceedings for one week in order for him to return to Kenya to help respond to the terrorist...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday condemned a terrorist attack on a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan, which has reportedly killed more than 80 people and wounded more than 100. Ban...
The UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo called Friday on the government of Italy to increase efforts to disrupt and eliminate human trafficking ....
Simone Gbagbo, the wife of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo , will be tried in an Ivory Coast court on charges of crimes against humanity, according to a government statement released Friday. In a...
The chairman of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic , Paulo Sergio Pinheiro stated Monday that the UN war crimes panel is investigating 14 suspected chemical attacks in Syria. A report...
The Supreme Court of Israel on Monday invalidated the 2012 amendment to the Law for the Prevention of Infiltration , declaring the act unconstitutional. The law had allowed police forces to arrest...
Qatar based news service Al Jazeera will take legal action against the Egyptian military government according to a press release issued Thursday. Al Jazeera has accused the regime of detaining journalists without charges...
The European Parliament approved legislation Thursday that creates a system of banking supervision overseen by a new centralized bank supervision authority supported by the European Central Bank (ECB) . The regulation puts in...
According to a report released by the Washington Post Saturday, the Obama administration won permission from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency (NSA) [official...
