A member of the US Navy, on Friday admitted to accepting cash and other bribes in exchange for providing classified navy information to the defense contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd (GDMA), based in Singapore. Michael Vannak...
Supporters of Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff on Sunday plan to rally in support of the President, who is facing a Senate impeachment trial. The supporters plan to decry the President's potential impeachment. The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies...
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing Leilani Farha warned on Friday that homelessness is India is a major problem. Farha called on the government of India to take immediate action to ensure adequate...
Bangladeshi workers gathered Sunday on the third anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory disaster to demand justice for the incident that took the lives of more than 1,000 people. A court in Dhaka ruled that 41 defendants can...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Monday warned of an increase in torture and ill treatment in Burundi. In the last four months Zeid's office has recorded more than 300 new cases...
An Israeli court on Tuesday convicted Yosef Haim for the 2014 murder of a Palestinian teenager that led to a 50-day war in Gaza. Haim entered an insanity plea, but the court rejected his plea stating he was aware...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Friday she will allow a criminal inquiry to proceed against German comedian Jan Boehmermann after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a complaint. The comedian made sexual references to Erdogan on...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced the transfer of 9 Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia on Saturday as they continue their efforts to close the facility. They would have sent the prisoners...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday that the only way to prevent future atrocities like the Rwandan genocide is to take shared responsibility and shared action to prevent them. Speaking at the General Assembly commemoration of...
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Monday threw out a constitutional challenge to Utah's anti-bigamy laws . The lawsuit was brought in 2011 by the family from TLC's reality TV show...
