Lawmakers in Suriname on Wednesday proposed a bill that would amend the country's current amnesty law and extend amnesty to alleged offenses committed in defense of the state. The proposed amendment would effectively end the...
Two members of the US House of Representatives introduced legislation on Thursday aimed at protecting Ugandan citizens from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) led by alleged Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony [BBC...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Wednesday urged Libyan officials to investigate the allegations of human rights abuse in the country during the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi . The Secretary-General's call for the National...
China's National People's Congress (NPC) on Wednesday passed a law allowing police to detain certain suspects for up to six months in secret detention facilities commonly known as "black jails." The new law is...
Samsung Electronics filed a patent suit on Tuesday in the Seoul Central District Court in South Korea alleging Apple infringed three of its utility patents. Samsung alleges that Apple's iPhone 4S...
A judge in the Dane County Circuit Court on Tuesday issued an injunction temporarily blocking enforcement of the state's controversial new voter identification law, Wisconsin Act 23 . The injunction was issued by Circuit...
The Georgia House of Representatives on Thursday approved legislation banning late-term abortions . The bill, passed in a vote of 102-65, would prohibit most abortions performed beyond five months of pregnancy except in...
A panel of three judges in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Tuesday issued new voting maps for use in the 2012 elections. The new maps were issued after the US...
Former Philippines president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of electoral fraud. Arroyo is accused of rigging senate elections in favor of the candidates she supported in 2007. Arroyo...
Members of the Indiana chapter of an electrical engineers union filed suit on Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana seeking to block implementation of the state's new right-to-work legislation [HB...
