French President Francois Hollande announced on Saturday that he plans a new law that would make it a crime to deny the killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was a genocide. The...
The leaders of six West African nations urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate war crimes in Mali at a crisis summit on Saturday. Malian soldiers took control of the government...
Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi on Thursday issued a decree appointing a fact-finding committee to investigate the deaths of protesters in last year's demonstrations. The committee is made up of 16 members including judges, a state prosecutor, a...
Lawmakers in Romania voted on Friday to impeach President Traian Basescu for overstepping the bounds of his authority by interfering in judicial and legislative affairs. The Romanian Parliament voted 256-114 for impeachment. Romanian...
The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia on Wednesday signed an action plan to be implemented with the goal of ending the recruitment of child soldiers in the region. Somali Deputy Prime Minister Hussein Arab...
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) on Tuesday vetoed several measures in a series of new legislation that included amendments to the state's election laws. Two of the vetoed bills would have required voters to produce photo identification...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Saturday announced that it will not prosecute Attorney General Eric Holder after the House of Representatives voted to hold him in contempt of Congress . The...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday demanded that authorities in Kazakhstan publicly disclose their reasons for bringing new criminal charges against a group of labor activists and an oil worker who participated in...
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Sunday sentenced two Bosnian Muslim brothers each to six years in prison for the murder of two Serbian civilians during the 1992-1995 Bosnian Civil War ....
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Friday dismissed the patent lawsuit between Apple and Motorola . Judge Richard Posner dismissed the case with prejudice, ruling that...
