The Liberian Supreme Court on Friday barred Justice Minister Christiana Tah from practicing law for six months, according to Liberia’s state radio, after being found guilty of contempt. The ruling cited Tah’s decision to grant “compassionate release” to journalist Rodney Sieh, who was jailed last year in connection with a libel case, as the reason [...]

South African President Jacob Zuma on Monday stated that the governing African National Congress (ANC) will not condone political violence. The statement came as 30 of his supporters , three minors and 27 adults, were expected to appear in the Nkandla Magistrate Court for throwing stones at members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) near [...]

Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) and the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) on Sunday filed a formal complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging that UK government and military officials engaged in “systematic” war crimes during the war in Iraq. According to reports, the complaint primarily alleges that UK service personnel, at [...]

A Saudi Arabian court on Sunday sentenced to death a member of an extremist group convicted of producing explosives used in a May 2004 suicide attack on a western company operating in Saudi Arabia’s northwestern port city of Yanbu. According to reports, the court also handed down sentences ranging from three to 12 years to [...]

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos spoke on behalf of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and encouraged the world on Sunday to do more to aid the besieged communities in Syria . According to Amos, violence in the country has affected more than nine million [...]

The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to rule on seven cases. In Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital , the court will consider whether a hedge fund could subpoena banks for information about Argentina’s non-U.S. assets following the country’s default on $100 billion in sovereign debt in 2002. The subpoenas were served in 2010 on [...]

Former Israeli Prime Minister and military leader, Ariel Sharon , was pronounced dead on Saturday at the age of 85. Sharon suffered a major stroke in January of 2006, which placed him in a coma for the remainder of his life and resulted in a declaration of official incapacitation while he was serving as PM. [...]

Friday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that Apple Inc. did not infringe on any of Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility patents in the creation of the iPhone. Motorola Mobility, newly acquired by Google in the attempt to gain their patents, claimed on appeal that Apple had infringed on several of their [...]

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday to uphold a district court ruling approving BP’s settlement with parties who claim to have suffered financial loss due to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill . BP argued that the settlement should not be enforced as District Judge Carl Barbier for the Eastern District of Louisiana , [...]

A French administrative appeals court ruled on Thursday, upholding a ban on performance by French comedian Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala that was deemed anti-semitic. Dieudonne was appealing the prohibition order issued by courts in Nantes and eight other cities. The court refused to lift the prohibition order after it had originally been lifted just hours before [...]