The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Friday denied the state of Arizona's request for an expedited appeal to lift the preliminary injunction issued Wednesday against several provisions of a controversial immigration law...
The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Thursday indicted former Serb policeman Srpko Pustivuk for allegedly committing crimes against civilians during the Bosnian civil war . Pustivuk was arrested ...
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) on Thursday filed an expedited appeal asking the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to lift the preliminary injunction issued Wednesday against several...
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution declaring that access to clean and sanitized drinking water is a basic human right . The resolution, passed by a vote of 122-0 with 41 member...
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would create a bipartisan commission charged with reviewing the US criminal justice system. The commission would also propose reforms and promote...
Spain's lower house of parliament, the Congress of Deputies , on Tuesday rejected a proposal to ban the burqa and other full face veils, by...
Judge Martin Feldman of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Friday refused to recuse himself from a case in which he has already overturned a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling...
Syrian Minister of Education Ghiath Barakat issued a directive Sunday forbidding students and teachers at universities from wearing the niqab . The ban applies to both public and...
Goldman, Sachs & Co. on Thursday agreed to a $550 million settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to resolve charges that they marketed a subprime...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday upheld the torture convictions and sentence of Charles McArthur Emmanuel, son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor . Emmanuel was sentenced [JURIST...
