The Paris Appellate Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court's 2008 decision finding French oil company Total and several other defendants criminally liable for an oil spill that occurred of the coast of...
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday proposed amending the country's terrorism legislation in the wake of Monday's twin suicide bombing attacks on Moscow subway stations. In...
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Friday adopted a resolution condemning Myanmar for rights violations and urging the ruling junta to conduct fair and free elections. The UNHRC also extended the mandate...
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office on Friday banned Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf , finding it in violation of laws against extremism. The step was taken pursuant to Article I...
The proposed amendments to Turkeys Constitution threaten separation of power and judicial independence, the president of Turkey's Supreme Court Hasan Gerceker declared on Monday...
Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) on Friday dismissed allegations of election fraud from a member of the European Parliament . After the March 7 parliamentary elections , head of the European...
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that the practice of segregating Roma minority primary school students in Croatia from other pupils is discriminatory. The...
Italys highest administrative court, the State Council , announced Saturday that it would not restore a candidate list from the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi . The candidate list for...
French prosecutors on Friday filed preliminary terrorism charges against the suspected leader of the Basque separatist group ETA , along with two other people who are believed to be senior members of the group. A...
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic claimed Tuesday that attacks against Bosnian Muslims were "staged," denying any involvement in war crimes. Karadzic was appearing before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)...
