A Syrian official said Monday that the country has received a UN request to interview six officials in connection with the UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , and...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan linked France's ban on the hijab in public schools to the country's recent rioting , in an interview Monday with the Turkish newspaper Milliyet [media...
US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is not likely to be filibustered by Senate Democrats, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) , a senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday. Biden said a decision on...
Joshua Colangelo-Bryan an American lawyer for Guantanamo Bay detainee Jumah Dossari , recently became the first outsider to witness an attempted suicide at the military prison. Human rights advocates say Dossari...
The leading Islamic party in Tajikistan has criticized the country's recent ban on Islamic headscarves in secular schools . The Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP) said the ban was unconstitutional and against the interests of...
The Michigan Court of Appeals Monday complied with a request by state Attorney General Mike Cox seeking to delay a lower court ruling which allowed public-sector employers to offer domestic partner benefits to employees. In September, a...
Syria has agreed to allow Detlev Mehlis, the German prosecutor leading the UN probe of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , to interview two relatives of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...
Magistrates in Zimbabwe told court officials Monday that they are starving and unable to afford three meals a day, as the country's inflation soars and more than 75% of the population lives below the poverty line....
Abdurahman Jafar, vice chairman of the legal affairs committee of the of the Muslim Council of Britain , warned the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights Monday that the country's anti-terror proposals ...
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut has agreed to pay $22 million to settle sexual abuse claims against the diocese, a plaintiff's lawyer announced Monday. The settlement included 43 plaintiffs, who had accused...
