Dissident groups, such as the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, said Sunday that the Cuban government imprisoned more than 6,000 political activists last year. This is more than 2,000 more than were arrested in 2011. Most...

Libyan Justice Minister Salah Maraghni announced Saturday that the war crimes trials of Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , and brother-in-law and former intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi , will occur within the next month. Maraghni...

An Egyptian court on Saturday acquitted former culture minister Farouq Hosni, who had served under ousted president Hosni Mubarak , on charges of corruption and illegal enrichment. Prosecutors alleged in September that Hosni...

A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee ruled Friday that a Tennessee law that restricts online sex advertising is unconstitutional. The law came in response to concerns of human...

The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) on Friday filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co. for the sale of $2.2 billion of faulty residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) to credit unions....

A Nepalese army officer was arrested and charged in the UK on Friday with two counts of torture during his country's civil war in 2005. Colonel Kumar Lama, a 46-year-old officer currently serving in the UN mission in Sudan,...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Friday that it has received "credible reports" of armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) recruiting and including children in the country's...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in three cases on Friday. In Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl the court will consider whether the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) allows...

A judge for the Provincial Court of British Columbia on Friday ruled that the federal government's mandatory-minimum sentence for the possession of a loaded and prohibited firearm is arbitrary and fundamentally unjust. Judge James Bahen ruled [CBC...

The Constitutional Court of Hungary on Friday struck down an electoral law requiring voters to register to vote at least two weeks before elections in 2014. The new rules had been proposed by the conservative...