The Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill legalizing euthanasia , in a move that could make Luxembourg the third European Union country to allow the controversial practice. Before...

Lawyers for a US Marine charged in connection with the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in November 2005 filed motions Tuesday requesting that the charges be dropped . Lt. Col. Jeffrey...

Pakistani lawyers will resume protests in Islamabad unless the superior court judges ousted in November 2007 by President Pervez Musharraf are reinstated, Pakistani Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan said Wednesday. Ahsan, originally detained...

The United States engages in widespread and systematic racial discrimination in violation of its obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) , human rights groups said Wednesday. US Human Rights Network...

Indictments for the leaders of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) still remain in effect despite a recent agreement between the LRA and the Ugandan government to establish a national war crimes court ,...

An Argentinean woman has brought charges against her adoptive parents for kidnapping her and falsifying her identity during Argentina's "Dirty War" . While several other cases have dealt with the abduction of children ...

Former Cambodian head of state Khieu Samphan is ending his cooperation with the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) , Khieu Samphan's lawyer told the Cambodia Daily in a Wednesday report. Khieu Samphan...

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning on Tuesday filed a motion for rehearing asking the Nebraska Supreme Court to reconsider its recent decision banning the use of the electric chair . The motion...

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in five cases Wednesday, including Rowe v. New Hampshire Motor Transport Association , where the Court held that federal law preempts two provisions...

Egyptian police arrested 70 more members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood Wednesday, most of whom were expected to run in upcoming provincial council elections scheduled for April 8 . Egypt's provincial councils...