The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) on Wednesday arrested nine suspects , all former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), on suspicions of committing war crimes during the 1998-1999 war in...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reinstated a lawsuit on Tuesday, allowing a Muslim woman to sue several government parties for forcing her to remove her religious headscarf while...
A grand jury in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Thursday indicted 14 suspects for overtaking a yacht containing four Americans. The Americans, taken as hostages, were later killed by the pirates,...
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh promised Thursday to create a new constitution guaranteeing parliamentary and judiciary freedoms, but protesters were not satisfied, flooding the streets in response. In a speech given to supporters in Sana'a,...
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed Senate Bill 3539 on Wednesday, absolishing the death penalty in Illinois. Two months after the Illinois Senate approved the bill , Quinn signed the bill...
The UN appointed a team of special prosecutors on Wednesday to investigate allegations that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has ordered forces to torture and abduct opponents. Although a probe was launched last week [JURIST...
Muslim student Yasir Afifi and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed a lawsuit against the FBI on Wednesday after Afifi discovered a global positioning system (GPS) device on the undercarriage...
A Wisconsin circuit court judge extended an ex parte restraining order on Tuesday that the Wisconsin capitol building must be made open to the public during business hours, sought in light of recent protests...
Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy lost his final appeal to the Cambodian Supreme Court on Wednesday for charges of intentionally destroying posts marking the border between Cambodia and Vietnam and inciting racial...
The Kansas House of Representatives on Thursday approved several new restrictions on abortion . Bills 2035 and 2281 passed overwhelmingly, in voice votes of 96 to 25 and 91...
