Civil rights groups on Monday requested that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) renew its investigation into the 1985 bombing of a California office building that killed Palestinian-American civil rights leader Alex Odeh. An online petition , which now has approximately 10,000 signatures, was created by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) and various other civil [...]

The US Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to rule on the federal government’s power to regulate certain greenhouse gases. The court granted petitions for certiorari in six related cases, consolidating them and limiting the grant to the following question: “Whether EPA permissibly determined that its regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles triggered permitting [...]

A UN-backed report released Monday warned that victims of human trafficking in South-East Asia are not given adequate help for reintegration into their communities. Reintegration of human trafficking victims involves many steps following an individual’s exit from trafficking, but begins with identifying the trafficked person and providing services to support social and economic reintegration into [...]

Chinese officials on Monday denounced the Spanish National Court’s recent indictment against former Chinese president Hu Jintao . The Spanish criminal court on Friday accepted an appeal by two Spanish pro-Tibet rights groups to include Hu in an investigation of alleged genocide against Tibetans. In accepting the appeal, the court ruled that Spain was competent [...]

Belgian authorities announced on Monday that suspected Somali pirate leader Mohammed Abdi Hassan was detained by authorities at the Brussels Airport on Saturday. Thought to be responsible for numerous vessel hijackings, Belgian prosecutors have been seeking Abdi Hassan, also known as “Big Mouth,” for some time. However, as Abdi Hassan rarely traveled, authorities were unable [...]

Amnesty International (AI) on Sunday stated that the African Union (AU) declaration on Saturday that no senior government officials should appear before the

Egyptian security forces used live ammunition to break up demonstrations on October 6, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report released Monday. According to AI, more than 49 people were killed and hundreds injured in the Egyptian capitol of Cairo. The report was based on first-hand interviews of witnesses and health officials collected by AI [...]

Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court on Monday reopened five cases against former president Asif Ali Zardari . While president, Zardari had been immune from prosecution, but when Zardari stepped down on September 5 and Mamnoon Hussain became Pakistan’s president, Zardari lost that immunity. The allegations before the anti-corruption court relate to kickbacks and favoritism [...]

Three Somali pirates accused of hijacking a private yacht off the coast of Somalia in 2009 went on trial in France Monday. The situation garnered heavy media coverage after French special services attempted to rescue the three french nationals being held captive on the sailboat on April 10, 2009, four days after they were taken [...]

An appeals court in Malaysia on Monday ruled that the nation’s government can legally ban the use of the word “Allah” to refer to God in faiths other than Islam. The case was originally brought by the Herald, a weekly Catholic publication, against the Malaysian government in response to the ban. Allah is the Arabic [...]