A judge for South Africa's high court on Sunday issued an order barring Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir , who has an international warrant out for his arrest, from leaving the country. Bashir, who was visiting South Africa for...

The US is hindering Poland's investigation into a secret CIA prison there, a Polish prosecutor said Saturday. Piotr Kosmaty, spokesman for the Appeals Prosecutor's Office in Krakow that is doing the investigation, said that the US has...

Mexico's Supreme Court has declared it unconstitutional for Mexican states to ban same-sex marriages. The court's June 3 ruling, made public this week, is considered a "jurisprudential thesis" and does not invalidate any...

Six Guantanamo detainees were transferred to Oman Saturday, marking the first transfer of detainees from the prison in five months.The Pentagon reports that the six Yemeni men transferred include Emad Abdullah Hassan, held without charge since 2002,...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday struck down the conspiracy conviction of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul , the media secretary for Osama...

Humans Rights Watch (HRW) , along with Amnesty International, Civil Society Organizations Reference Group and National Civil Society Congress called on authorities in Kenya on Thursday to stop the harassment and intimidation of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein and a spokesperson for the EU on Thursday demanded that the government of Pakistan reinstate its death penalty moratorium. The EU also called on the Pakistani government...

Assistant Secretary-General for UN peacekeeping operations Edmund Mulet said Tuesday that the ongoing conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan is continuing to harm civilians. Presenting the Report of the Secretary-General on the African Union-United...

The European Commission said Thursday that they have opened a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon's e-books business. The investigation will focus on particular clauses in Amazon's contracts requiring publishers to inform Amazon about more favorable or...

China's ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang was found guilty Thursday of bribery, abuse of power and intentionally disclosing national secrets was sentenced to life imprisonment. He has also been deprived of his political rights for life and has had his...