The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in a Guantanamo detainee case but granted certiorari in a case involving deportation. Monday marked the second time the case...

An Italian court in Milan on Monday acquitted four banks charged with failing to have adequate steps to prevent the 2003 Parmalat SpA dairy empire crash. Parmalat collapsed under 14 billion euros in debt...

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was arrested Monday in connection with protests against increasing food and fuel costs. Bloomberg reports Besigye was detained during the protest , while Al Jazeera reports Besigye was arrested on...

Egyptian prosecutors charged former prime minister Ahmed Nazif, former finance minister Yousef Boutros and former interior minister Habib el Adly with corruption on Sunday. The charges stem from allegations that the three former officials, all of which served under...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday announced in a televised speech that he will lift emergency laws that have been in place for 48 years. For the past four weeks, tens...

An Egyptian court on Saturday ordered that the political party of former president Hosni Mubarak be dissolved. It would be illogical for Mubarak's National Democratic Party, which took control in 1978,...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Friday declared an initiative for sweeping constitutional and political reforms in order to increase the role of democracy in the African nation. The announcement, which came in a nationally televised...

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Thursday discharged six justices of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan for corruption. The Kazakh Prosecutor-General's Office has opened criminal cases [RFE/RL...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday denounced a deadly Iraqi military raid on a camp housing Iranian exiles. At least 34 people, including women, were shot to death...

The Obama administration on Friday asked the US Supreme Court to determine whether police need warrants to track a suspect's movement using global position systems (GPS) technology. The government is appealing last year's lower...