New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Saturday asked the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to vacate the decisions of US District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin, who ordered sweeping changes to the...
Bangladesh authorities on Saturday arrested senior leaders of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) , Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar and Rafiqul Islam Mia. The arrests were made shortly after BNP announced a new 72-hour strike ,...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of New Jersey on Friday upheld a New Jersey law banning the use of sexual orientation conversion therapy. The unidentified parents of a 15-year-old boy filed...
The Hawaii House of Representatives voted 30-19 Friday to pass a bill legalizing same-sex marriage . A point of contention during the committee hearing was the introduction of religious exemptions to the bill, allowing...
President Barack Obama on Friday established by Executive Order a Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience. The task force, with members including state, local and tribal officials and executive agencies, is to advise the federal...
Kosovo on Sunday held its first elections for mayors and local councilors since the country's secession from Serbia . The elections, facilitated by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) , are mandated...
Germany and Brazil on Friday proposed a draft resolution within the UN General Assembly calling for member states to take measures to put an end to "gross invasions of privacy" such as excessive electronic surveillance...
The High Court in New Delhi on Saturday began the appeal of the death penalty sentence for the fatal gang-rape of an Indian student last December. Although six men were charged with the rape and...
The top official for the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) , Martin Kobler, on Saturday condemned a series of attacks perpetrated by the Mayi-Mayi Cheka , which resulted...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar , Tomas Ojea Quintana, warned on Friday that sectarian violence between the Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State is contributing to...
