Zimbabwe police arrested a pilot and several members of the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) as they were arriving at Harare International Airport to deliver campaign materials, a MDC spokesman...
The South Korean National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) said Tuesday that it will begin an official investigation of alleged human rights violations by North Korea, adding that it will begin the investigation by...
The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases Tuesday, including Medellin v. Texas , where the Court ruled that President Bush does not have the authority to...
American Bar Association (ABA) President William H. Neukom said in an op-ed published on the ABA website Monday that American lawyers are "deeply troubled by six death penalty cases" being tried by the military commissions process...
An city official with Farmers Branch, Texas said Monday that city officials have accidentally issued several city rental license applications designed to enforce an anti-immigration measure , sending out the applications requiring...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Riley v. Kennedy , 07-77, a voting rights case where the Court is considering whether the state of Alabama...
The Tagansky District Court in Moscow on Monday sentenced seven members of the banned National Bolshevik Party to prison for "armed hooliganism." The sentences ranged from 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 years. The charges stem...
US District Judge Cormac J. Carney of the Central District of California Monday sentenced former Chinese-American engineer Chi Mak to over 24 years in prison for conspiring to commit espionage, attempting to violate export...
Officials from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) made a formal request to the United Nations Monday for $114 million in additional funds to allow the court to continue...
Nepalese police arrested at least 400 Tibetan exiles, monks, and other protesters near the Nepalese UN headquarters in Kathmandu Monday as demonstrations continued against China's recent crackdown against pro-Tibet protests . Police reported that an additional...