Israeli Attorney General Meni Mazuz said Sunday that he intends to charge former prime minister Ehmud Olmert with additional corruption charges for allegedly abusing a previous governmental post to benefit friends and business partners....

Officials in Malaysia on Sunday announced the release of 13 people who were detained under the country's controversial Internal Security Act (ISA) , in a move called for Friday by Prime Minister Najib...

The UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) on Friday called on the government of Rwanda to investigate reports of killings during and after the uprising by the Rwandan Patriotic Army to end the 1994 genocide...

Bavaria's Secretary of Justice Beate Merk told reporters Saturday that the deportation of Nazi prison camp guard John Demjanjuk , does not amount to torture. Demjanjuk was recently charged with 29,000 counts of accessory to...

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday strongly criticized the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) investigation into possible war crimes that were committed during recent fighting in the Gaza Strip ....

US President Barack Obama may lift travel and money transfer restrictions with Cuba , according to statements by administration officials Saturday. The new rules would allow Americans with family members...

A senior judge in the UK House of Lords on Friday criticized the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) , saying the court has overstepped its bounds and is attempting to create a "federal...

Drug maker Pfizer reached a settlement Friday with the Nigerian state of Kano in a lawsuit over allegedly illegal clinical trials the company conducted in Nigeria in 1996. The national government and the state of Kano filed...

French President Nicholas Sarkozy said Friday that his country would accept one Guantanamo Bay detainee in a symbolic effort to aid the closure of the detention center. Sarkozy made the announcement...

Australian Minister of Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin  announced Friday that the country has endorsed  the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples . The move reverses the position of the country's former administration on the declaration. Macklin said the decision...