Amnesty International (AI) released its annual report on global use of the death penalty Tuesday, saying China continues to use the punishment more than any other country. The group says the exact number of...

The Constitutional Court of Hungary repealed a village ban on the construction of mosques as well as headscarves like burkas and chadors worn by Muslim women on Wednesday. The village of Asotthalom, located on the Serbian boarder, implemented...

Hungary's president Janos Ader on Monday signed legislation requiring foreign universities in Hungary to also have campuses their home country. This is an issue for schools like Central European University (CEU) , which has a campus in...

Hearings began in Spain on Monday regarding potential war crimes committed by President Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria . The case is a result of a Spanish national's brother being abducted and tortured in Damascus before being...

The Group of Seven (G7) nations failed to reach an agreement on whether to impose new sanctions on Russia and Syria, Italian foreign minister Angelino Alfano announced Tuesday. Before the two-day meeting of the G7 ministers, British Foreign...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a press release on Monday that all transfers of asylum-seekers from other EU states to Hungary should be suspended under the Dublin Regulation . The Dublin...

A Pakistani military court on Monday sentenced Kulbushan Jadhav , an Indian naval officer who was detained in Pakistan for the past year, to death. The court handed down the death sentence after...

The anti-corruption group Global Witness (GW) said Monday that recently leaked emails reveal that Shell knowingly briber Nigerian officials so the company could access a Nigerian offshore oilfield. GW alleges Shell and its...

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi announced a national state of emergency following two terror attacks on Coptic Christian churches on Sunday. The attacks killed at least 44 people and injured 100 others after suicide bombers in...

Numerous African and international nongovernmental organizations urged Zambia to reaffirm its membership in the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday. The calls come in response to the African Union's (AU) decision to adopt...