A court in Bangladesh issued an arrest warrant for former prime minister Khaleda Zia in connection with the firebombing of a bus orchestrated against the government last year. In addition to Zia, the court...
Argentinian lawmakers on Thursday voted to approve a USD $4.65 billion deal with creditors in the US, ending a 14-year debt default. Although the deal was agreed to "in principle" in February , Congress'...
UNICEF reported Tuesday that "on average at least six children have been killed or maimed everyday since March 15, 2015" as the crisis in Yemen escalates. The report also discussed how recruitment of children as...
An equally divided US Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a 2014 decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in favor of unions concerning First Amendment rights of public teachers...
Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic convicted Thursday of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and sentenced to 40 years by the International Criminal Tribunal for the...
The UN Human Rights Council decided Wednesday to establish a three-person commission to investigate allegations of human rights abuses in South Sudan. The commission was established for a year term and will "monitor and report...
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Sturgeon v. Frost that an Alaskan hunter may use his hovercraft in a federal preserve, holding that the "Ninth Circuit's interpretation of the statute in question...
In her first report to the UN Human Rights Council, UN expert Ikponwosa Ero noted the increasing violence against people with albinism triggered by fallacious "witchcraft" beliefs. Those with albinism are reportedly being hunted, killed and...
US Secretary of State John Kerry in a speech at the State Department on Thursday declared that the Islamic State (IS) "is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its control, including Yezidis,...
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill to legalize the use and distribution of medical marijuana. The bill, passed by a vote of 149-43, authorizes the use of medical...
