The Supreme Court of Thailand on Thursday upheld the sentence of a former magazine editor who published stories criticizing the royal family. The court did curtail the sentence , so that Somyot Pruksakasemsuk would be released in 2018. The...

The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced Wednesday that female soldiers will be allowed to wear headscarves along with their uniforms. The regulation, a break in the nation's attempt to protect its secularism , is the...

The Brazil federal senate on Wednesday confirmed President Michel Temer's nominee for the vacant Supreme Court seat, Alexandre de Moraes. Moraes, a 49-year-old lawyer, professor and current justice minister, was...

The German state of Bavaria on Tuesday approved a ban on full-face veils in certain public spaces, including universities, schools, government workplaces and while driving. Asserting that facial expressions are important to communication, Bavarian...

A Hong Kong Court on Wednesday sentenced Donald Tsang, the former Chief Executive from 2005 to 2012, to 20 months in prison for his failure to disclose personal conflicts of interest when his cabinet was...

The UK Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld immigration rules that require British citizens have a certain level of income to bring their foreign spouses into Britain. The Minimum Income Requirement rule mandates that a British...

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation annulled the 2.5 year prison sentence of Ildar Dadin, who was the first person to be convicted under a relatively new anti-protest law. Dadin was imprisoned in 2015 under...

The US Supreme Court ruled in Life Technologies Corporation v. Promega Corporation on Wednesday that the supply of a single component in a multi-component patented invention for manufacture overseas does not violate Section 271(f)(1)...

South Africa's High Court on Wednesday blocked the government's attempt to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) . High Court Judge Phineas Mojapelo found that the "decision by the national executive to deliver the notice...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on the cross-border shooting of a Mexican citizen by a US Border Patrol Agent. In Hernandez v. Mesa , the court is considering the extraterritorial application of the Fourth...