The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in the cases of Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools and Star Athletica, LLC v. Varsity Brands, Inc. . In the Fry case, a Michigan...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday commuted the sentences of all death row inmates to life in prison. The last execution in Kenya took place in 1987, though there were 2,655 male and 92 female death row...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a report on Tuesday documenting the systemic discrimination of minorities in Myanmar and calling for concrete steps end these human rights violations....
The Chinese Communist Party announced on Monday that the Chinese government has punished more than one million officials for corruption. The statistics were released when the highest-ranking members of the party met for the Sixth...
South Korean President Park Geun-hye proposed on Monday to amend the country's constitutional provision that restricts presidents to one term in office. In a speech to the legislature, she called for a special committee...
Burundi's vote last week to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC) elicited concern from The Hague on Tuesday. President of the ICC's governing body Sidiki Kaba stated that such a withdrawal "represent a setback in the...
The Venezuela Supreme Tribunal of Justice ruled on Monday that a referendum to unseat President Nicolas Maduro will require his opponents to collect signatures from 20 percent of voters in each of...
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, author of the 2015 Guantanamo Diary memoir, was released from Guantanamo Bay on Monday after 14 years of imprisonment. He was transferred back to his native Mauritania, bringing Guantanamo Bay's population down to 60...
UK government lawyers argued in court on Monday that British Prime Minister Theresa May has the right to remove the UK from the EU. The case before the High Court of the UK centers on the the...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted certiorari in three cases. In the three consolidated cases of Ziglar v. Turkmen, Ashcroft v. Turkmen and Hasty v. Turkmen , the court will decide whether government...
