The Tokyo High Court granted an appeal Thursday to consider 30 people for official recognition as atomic bomb victims, ruling that 9 of the plaintiffs who were previously denied should receive the status. Officials said...
A US federal judge Wednesday sentenced the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and five of its officials pursuant to their convictions of providing material support to Palestinian group Hamas . District Judge...
The photographs of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison that US President Barack Obama does not want to release include depictions of rape and sexual assault, according to former US Major General Antonio Taguba...
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions , the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee , said Wednesday that he does not anticipate a filibuster against US Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor . Sessions...
The Constitutional Court of Moldova has upheld a recent law barring certain government officials from holding dual citizenship. The controversial law no. 273 was passed by the Communist Party in April 2008 and, among other...
Mexican security forces arrested 27 government officials in Michoacan Tuesday on corruption charges related to the illegal drug trade . Those arrested include 10 mayors, the chief adviser to the Michoacan attorney general,...
A Tasmanian anti-discrimination court Wednesday upheld an Australian Red Cross policy to refuse blood donations from sexually active homosexual males. Petitioner Michael Cain tried to donate blood in 2004 but his offer was refused...
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that recorded conversations between the brother of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich , Robert Blagojevich, and Illinois Senator Roland Burris could be released to the US...
The Supreme Court of Sweden ruled Tuesday that the Swedish government would have the final authority on granting extradition of an alleged Rwandan war criminal. The Republic of Rwanda requested extradition...
An Egyptian court on Monday overturned the conviction of dissident Saad Eddin Ibrahim on charges related to defaming Egypt. Ibrahim, founder of the Ibn Khaldoun Centre for Development Studies , has been a prominent human rights...
