El Salvador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal on Sunday confirmed the presidential victory of former Marxist rebel Salvador Sanchez Ceren, denying conservative candidate Norman Quijano's call for annulment. Sanchez Ceren received a narrow 50.11 percent of the...
The admitted mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohamed , on Sunday gave a statement in defense of Sulaiman abu Ghaith, claiming that Osama bin Laden's son-in-law had no involvement...
In her first visit to Nigeria, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay , on Friday praised the country for the significant development in protecting human rights, while urging further protection...
A Paris court on Friday convicted former Rwandan intelligence chief Pascal Simbikangwa of genocide and crimes against humanity for his participation in the 1994 Rwandan genocide . After a six-week trial , in which Simbikangwa maintained his...
The Virginia House of Delegates on Thursday unanimously passed a bill to remove the state code's ban on oral and anal sex, a decade after it was invalidated by a US Supreme Court ...
A Malaysian court on Friday overturned the High Court's acquittal of Anwar Ibrahim , sentencing the opposition leader to five years in prison for sodomizing a male aide in 2008. This conviction makes...
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied review of two cases involving local ordinances that sought to deny housing to undocumented immigrants. The court's denial will will let stand lower court rulings that the...
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of California ruled Friday that two state laws are unconstitutional because they alter the sentences of crimes that were committed before the laws came into effect....
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday condemned the recent escalating violence in Thailand and called for a cessation of violence, asking the government to bring all responsible parties to justice. Additionally, the...
A Russian court on Monday sentenced seven anti-Putin protesters to up to four years in prison for rioting and inciting violence against police at a 2012 protest. The protesters were arrested the night before Vladimir Putin's inauguration...
