The Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association has adopted two annual days of remembrance to highlight the plight of judges deposed following the declaration of emergency by President Pervez Musharraf in November 2007. The Bar Association will observe...
Cambodia has submitted a letter to the UN Security Council seeking to draw UN attention to its border dispute with Thailand. Disagreement between the two countries has arisen over the border area surrounding the...
The Human Rights Annual Report 2007 released Sunday by the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee recommended that the UK not rely on any assurances made by the US that it does not use...
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Thursday that he will widen his investigation into war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region to include attacks by rebel groups against African Union (AU) [official...
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was released on bail Thursday, one day after being arrested by Malaysian authorities investigating sodomy allegations made against him by a former aide. According to a statement...
US President George W. Bush invoked executive privilege Wednesday to prevent members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from obtaining an FBI report on an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney concerning the Valerie...
Malaysian authorities arrested opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim Wednesday afternoon, less than a day after a warrant was issued for his arrest on sodomy allegations made against him by a former aide. According...
The Spanish Senate voted Wednesday to ratify the new EU reform treaty , also known as the Treaty of Lisbon . Jose Manuel Barroso , the president of the European Commission,...
The Massachusetts Senate passed a bill Tuesday to repeal a 1913 law which bars people from marrying in Massachusetts if their own state would not recognize such a union. The statute gained attention because it would...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a libel case brought against the New York Times by former US Army biodefense research scientist Dr. Stephen...
