The European Commission (EC) on Wednesday levied a record-breaking antitrust fine against the four biggest elevator and escalator manufacturers in Europe after finding them guilty of restrictive business practices in violation of Article 81 of...

Police imposed a three-month ban on political rallies and protests Wednesday in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare after a political rally held Sunday by opposition group Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) . Despite a court order ...

The Russian Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to overturn the 24-year sentence given to former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin for organizing a series of contract killings, including...

Lawmakers in the French Senate have buried a draft bill that would have criminalized any denial that the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I constituted genocide. The bill has been...

Two human rights groups have called on Canada's Federal Court to review the legality of terrorism detainee transfer procedures under the Canada-Afghanistan Detainee Agreement . Amnesty International Canada and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association filed an...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales unveiled the First Freedom Project (FFP) Tuesday afternoon, a new Department of Justice initiative aimed at stricter enforcement of laws against religious discrimination and educating the public about their...

The UN Development Programme ordered an audit Wednesday of the human resources practices of the Extraordinary Chamber of the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) , the international tribunal established to try former Khmer Rouge officials,...

US District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker issued an order Tuesday imposing a limited stay on discovery in a class action lawsuit challenging the legality of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program [JURIST...

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases Wednesday, including Wallace v. Kato , where the Court held that the two-year statute of limitations for a false...

The number of extra-judicial killings in the Philippines is critically high, according to UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston , who on Wednesday reported on his 10-day investigation into the...