The man charged with killing six people and wounding 13 others in the January 2011 Tucson shooting pleaded guilty on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of California [official...
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced two new economic sanctions on Iran's oil exports that aim to cut the country's financial transactions with the Chinese and Iraqi banks...
The widow and daughter of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday asked a French court to investigate what they believe to be the murder of the former Palestinian leader. The allegations of Suha and Zahwa Arafat...
The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) infringed on the authority given to state regulators by the Clean Water Act [text;...
Supporters of Proposition 8 , California's same-sex marriage ban, asked the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold the law after two federal courts found it unconstitutional. In their nearly 500-page petition...
The High Court of Fiji on Tuesday found Laisenia Qarase , the country's last democratically-elected prime minister, guilty of nine counts of corruption under the Fiji Penal Code . Suva Court Justice Priyantha...
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) , Cambodia's UN-supported war crimes tribunal, announced Monday that it has appointed a US judge to investigate two new Khmer Rouge cases, strongly opposed by...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a new agreement with the US that tightens the rules for Americans adopting children from the Russian Federation. Specifically, a foreign family can adopt a...
A lawmaker from the centrist political party United Russia on Friday announced a bill that would ban the media from disclosing the ethnic backgrounds of suspects, victims and other individuals during reports on crimes and...
The United Nations and the Arab League on Sunday each expressed concern over the recent increased violence in Syria . UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos expressed particular...
