The Spanish Interior Ministry announced Thursday that the country has accepted its third Guantanamo Bay detainee. The man, an Afghan national, arrived in Spain on Wednesday and will...
A report released Thursday by Transparency International (TI) named Burundi as the most corrupt East-African nation, with a corruption index of 36.7 percent. Also cited by TI for having high rates of corruption were Uganda, with...
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Wednesday refused to reinstate a six-month drilling moratorium issued in May by the Obama administration in response to the BP Deepwater...
A German appeals court announced Wednesday that the government's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (OPC) will be permitted to continue surveillance of members of the country's Left political party. The...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday urged the country of Chad to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir during his visit to the country. Al-Bashir was charged last week by the...
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed the Restoring Financial Stability Act into law. The legislation, which focuses on increasing regulation in the financial sector following the recent economic crisis ,...
A lawsuit was filed Tuesday against BP in a Louisiana state court alleging that the company's negligent actions led to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and that BP was also negligent in...
Human rights organization AIDS-Free World on Wednesday renewed calls for an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into allegations of rape and torture in Zimbabwe prior to the 2008 presidential elections ....
UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay Tuesday issued a warning about ongoing human rights violations in Kyrgyzstan following the recent ethnic violence in the country. According to Pillay, security forces in the southern...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Tuesday rejected an appeal by a Dutch businessman convicted of selling chemicals used by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to create chemical weapons....
