A court in Pakistan issued a death warrant for a schizophrenic prisoner, Khizar Hayat, sentenced to death in 2003 for shooting a police officer. The execution date was set just months after Pakistan's Supreme Court blocked the execution ...

A bipartisan group of 10 US Senators on Tuesday introduced legislation aimed at implementing mandatory sanctions against Russia for its involvement in cyber hacking during the 2016 presidential election. The US government has alleged that Russia...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivered his first formal briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday. In the briefing , Guterres "underlined the need for new, strengthened efforts to build and sustain peace." Guterres stressed that a...

Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's brother, Ban Ki Sang, and nephew, Joo Hyun Bahn, were indicted Tuesday by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York on bribery charges in an elaborate international case....

German automaker Volkswagen (VW) confirmed] Tuesday that it had reached a $4.3 billion dollar settlement in the US in which it will plead guilty to criminal charges that it violated the Clean Air Act and obstructed...

The European Commission on Tuesday proposed rules to bolster electronic communications as well as to "create new possibilities to process communication data and reinforce trust and security." The First Vice President stated that the...

Australian citizen and former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks made a court appearance on Tuesday in Adelaide on assault charges against his partner. Hicks was accused of assaulting his partner in September of last...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other international and local human rights groups on Tuesday asserted that the Pakistan government should investigate whether four missing anti-Taliban activists were abducted by the Taliban. HRW noted that the four...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued a ruling Tuesday refusing to exempt two Swiss Muslim students from compulsory mixed sex swimming lessons for religious reasons. The court explained that the...

The Supreme Court of Gambia has postponed until May the suit President Yahya Jammeh filed after he was defeated by Adama Barrow in the country's general election. Chief justice Emmanuel Fagbenle said that the seven-member panel that will...