Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday asked the Supreme Court to dismiss two election petitions challenging the validity of his repeat election win. Kenyatta strongly rejected the claims made by two challengers, saying that the petitions...
Syria announced on Tuesday during UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, that the nation is poised to send its ratification of the Paris Climate Accord to the UN. The Syria People's Assembly voted to...
Spain's Constitutional Court on Wednesday declared the Catalan independence declaration to be unconstitutional. The court initially nullified the October 27 declaration of independence while it studied its legality. The...
The US Supreme Court unanimously concluded on Monday that Alabama may execute a death row inmate, Vernon Madison, who claims to be mentally incompetent and unfit to be executed under the Eighth Amendment due to...
Iraq's Supreme Federal Court ruled Monday that no region within the country may secede from the state. The ruling is in response to the disputed referendum by the northern Kurdish region who...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Artis v. District of Columbia , involving the meaning of a provision of the federal supplemental jurisdiction statute , which allows plaintiffs to pursue state court...
The US Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in US Bank National Association v. Village at Lakeridge , in which the justices were tasked with determining the appropriate standard of review for determining whether...
Spanish Attorney General José Manuel Maza on Monday charged the former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont , and other top Catalan officials with rebellion, sedition, embezzlement and malfeasance related to the region's declaration of independence...
The Iowa Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked a law that enacted a 72-hour waiting period before a woman could get an abortion. The bill was passed in the Iowa house in April and signed...
A bipartisan group of US senators introduced the USA Rights Act on Tuesday that would overhaul aspects of the National Security Agency (NSA) warrantless internet surveillance program. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act , which...
