Israeli officials said Tuesday that a military delegation had canceled a trip to the UK over fears that they would be arrested on war crimes charges for their involvement in last year's Operation Cast Lead in...
The Argentine Supreme Court on Tuesday announced that it would rule on the constitutionality of two articles of the Civil Code prohibiting same-sex marriage . The announcement comes...
A Beijing court on Friday began hearing the first civil lawsuit by a family of an infant sickened during last year's melamine-tainted milk scandal . Ma Xuexin brought suit against the bankrupt dairy company Sanlu and a...
Argentina's Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill that would decriminalize defamation, bringing the government's policies more in line with the American Convention on Human Rights and garnering praise from international...
The Supreme Court of Bangladesh on Thursday denied the appeals of five former military officers sentenced to death for the 1975 military coup assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , the country's first leader. Bangladeshi Prime...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on Tuesday that more than 14,700 Americans have reported to the IRS previously hidden overseas bank accounts in...
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Director of Defense and Strategic Threats, Simon Manley, criticized Britain's High Court Thursday for jeopardizing national security by ordering the public release of evidence of alleged torture...
Convicted DC-area sniper John Allen Muhammad was executed by lethal injection Tuesday night after Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine rejected Muhammad's request for clemency and refused to suspend the execution. The US Supreme Court...
The US Senate voted 54-45 Thursday to defeat an amendment to an appropriations bill that would have prevented Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of involvement in 9/11 [JURIST...
Former British officer Simon Mann , convicted last year of involvement in a 2004 coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea, was released from prison Tuesday after being pardoned [Decree 116/2009 text; Decree...
