A Chilean appeals court on Saturday upheld the convictions of two men for the killing of two Americans in 1973. The Appeals Court of Santiago affirmed the seven-year sentence of General Pedro Espinoza Bravo and the two-year...
Germany's highest appeal court on Tuesday affirmed a 2013 decision by a lower court that invalidated a series of Apple smartphone patents. The ruling by the Federal Court of Justice invalidates...
A Pakistani court on Tuesday suspended the execution of a civilian man sentenced to death by a military court after a legal challenge, the first of such challenges since the Pakistan Supreme Court allowed these hearings. The...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday urged Macedonia to put an end to the police violence occurring against migrants at the country's border with Greece. On August 21, the day after Macedonia declared a state...
Egyptian police on Sunday arrested three people under a new anti-terrorism law for spreading Islamic State (IS) propaganda on Facebook . Police stated that the three individuals were found with two laptops containing IS...
A group of UN human rights experts on Thursday condemned an Azerbaijan court for the convictions of prominent human rights activists Leyla and Arif Yunus. The experts called the convictions "politically motivated and representative of the continuing...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday denied a request by former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell to remain out of prison while he appeals his corruption conviction to the US...
Tianjin Mayor Huang Xingguo said Wednesday that the owners of the hazmat facility that exploded in the city last week used their political connections get the facility built despite violating a great deal of safety rules. One...
The Israel Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended the administrative detention of a Palestinian man who has been on a two-month hunger strike. The prisoner, Mohammad Allan, had been on a hunger strike since June 16 in order...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Wednesday accepted the resignation the head of the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) over reports of sexual exploitation committed by members of the mission. Mr. Ban...
