A court in Tripoli sentenced Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi , and eight others to death for war crimes dating back to the 2011 revolution. Twenty-three other defendants were handed sentences ranging...
Attorneys for Jonathan Pollard announced Tuesday their client was granted parole by three members of the Parole Commission. Pollard is a former Navy intelligence analyst convicted of conspiracy to deliver classified information to Israel on November...
Ireland's Parliament, the Houses of Oireachtas , passed the Gender Recognition Bill on Wednesday, which allows transgender people over 18 legal recognition of their preferred gender and changes in their birth certificate. Ireland President Michael Higgins...
A South Carolina judge on Thursday set July 11, 2016 as the trial date for Dylann Roof, the man charged with killing nine black church members attending Emanuel AME Church in Charleston last month. Roof is charged with...
Testimony began Tuesday in a criminal defamation lawsuit brought on by the Thai Royal Navy against the website Phuketwan over a report it published claiming the military ignored refugee trafficking from Myanmar in exchange for monetary bribes....
US President Barack Obama , speaking at the NAACP Annual Convention on Tuesday, urged Congress to reform the criminal justice system by enacting legislation that would enforce criminal laws fairly and reduce disparities. Obama...
A group of leading computer scientists at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT on Monday published a paper criticizing the US and UK governments for seeking the redesign of internet systems...
The South Carolina Senate on Tuesday approved Senate Bill 897 , which would remove the Confederate flag from the State House and the Capitol Complex, by a vote of 37 to 3 [vote reading,...
Egyptian officials on Sunday stated that Egypt may pursue legal action against journalists who report information on terrorist attacks that contradicts official government statements. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to approve a draft law [AFP...
Two major opposition parties in Malaysia on Sunday called for an emergency sitting of parliament in order to discuss the future of the country's prime minister. A police report has also been lodged against Prime Minister Najib Razak [official...
