A federal judge in the Eastern District of Michigan on Wednesday struck down a Michigan election law that limits access to information on presidential primary voters to the Democratic and Republican parties, blocking...
Two former Bosnian Serb police officers pleaded not guilty Friday to war crime charges before the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina . Krsto Savic is accused of...
A bill that would overturn a decision by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deny a greenhouse emissions waiver to California was introduced in the US House of Representatives [official...
Chinese rights activist Teng Biao has disappeared and is thought to have been detained by state authorities, rights group China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group said Friday. Teng, a lawyer with close ties to civil rights activist...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said Friday that she will not seek a second term when her commission ends on June 30. Arbour's decision not to seek a second term...
Chadian President Idriss Deby said Thursday that he may pardon six French aid workers convicted in Chad in December of attempting to kidnap 103 African children within a month. In February,...
Humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip have reached their lowest point since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967, according to a report released Thursday by a coalition of eight UK-based human...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday denounced a Colombian attack on a Ecuadorian camp belonging to the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group as a "war crime." Chavez joined...
A federal judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday scheduled a June trial to resolve the decade-old Indian Trust case . In January, US District Judge...
A federal judge Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought by members of the US military against the US Department of Defense (DOD) that sought to make an anthrax vaccine optional rather than mandatory. The military personnel...
