The Israeli Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned jail sentences for 13 ultra-Orthodox Jewish mothers charged with contempt for disobeying a court order on school integration in the West Bank settlement of Immanuel. The court delayed jail sentences...

The Afghan Office of the President announced Tuesday that the UN will gradually begin to remove Taliban officials who have renounced al Qaeda from the organization's blacklist . The blacklist freezes assets and limits travel...

The Australian government reinstated its Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) in the Northern Territory on Tuesday after the Senate approved the legislation as part of a Social Security Act late Monday. The discrimination laws were...

A Zimbabwean court on Monday denied bail to human rights activist Farai Maguwu, who is being held for allegedly supplying false information about Zimbabwe's controversial diamond mining practices to the international diamond control body the Kimberley Process (KP) [official...

A team of Belgian lawyers on Monday filed a complaint in a Brussels court against 12 Belgian officials accused of planning the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba , the first democratically-elected leader of the Democratic Republic of the...

Pakistani-born US citizen Faisal Shahzad pleaded guilty Monday to 10 counts of terrorism and weapons charges relating to last month's attempted car bombing in New York City's Times Square. Appearing before Judge Miriam...

The voters of Fremont, Nebraska on Monday passed an ordinance banning the hiring, harboring or renting property to illegal immigrants . The voters of the eastern Nebraska community of 25,000 approved...

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced Monday that he will lead a multistate investigation into whether Google violated privacy laws while collecting information over Wi-Fi networks for its Street View...

Sweden's international prosecutor, Magnus Elving, announced Monday that he would investigate the possible role of Lundin Petroleum in crimes against humanity committed in Sudan from 1997 to 2003. The investigation will examine allegations made...

The Supreme Court of India on Monday ordered the central government and seven state governments to explain the steps they have taken to reduce honor killings . The order comes in response to a petition [TOI...