The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court ruling that dismissed a suit resulting from Hurricane Katrina brought on behalf of the US against eight...
Italian authorities Monday began dismantling illegal immigrant camps around Rome heavily populated by members of the Roma minority ("gypsies") following the alleged weekend rape of a 14-year old girl by East European immigrants which led to...
The Federal Court of Canada Monday dismissed an application by two Guantanamo Bay detainees requesting access to Canadian interrogation records. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian with landed immigrant status in Canada, and...
A report issued Wednesday by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commended China's developmental progress, while urging the nation to share best practices in poverty reduction and to improve the national standard of living. The...
US Solicitor General nominee Elena Kagan said Tuesday that she was committed to being "true to the rule of law" in confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee . Kagan, currently the Dean at Harvard...
An Albania Supreme Court judge was shot four times outside his home in the capital Tirana, according to local police Monday. Ardian Nuni , a former law professor nominated to the high court in 2007, was...
A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced a Kurdish member of the Grand National Assembly , the Turkish parliament, to 18 months in prison on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda. Aysel Tugluk was convicted in connection with...
US Attorney General Eric Holder Tuesday expressed his commitment to restoring a tradition of fairness and political neutrality to the Department of Justice (DOJ) . In video remarks to DOJ employees delivered after he...
The Australian Federal Court Tuesday dismissed the application of former Serbian paramilitary commander Dragan Vasiljkovic for review of a 2007 extradition order that he be handed over to Croatian authorities....
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on Thursday rejected an appeal by relatives of victims of the 1940 Katyn Massacre to reopen investigations into the killings. The court...
