The retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children , with the HIV virus was adjourned Tuesday after resuming for only one day since a...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Philip Morris USA v. Williams , 05-1256, a case challenging the punitive damages awarded in a wrongful death...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that his government has no plans to abolish Article 301 of the country's penal code, despite warnings from the European Union ...
Alexander Milinkevich , the defeated opposition candidate in Belarus' presidential elections in March, was awarded the Sakharov Prize on Thursday by the European Parliament , for his fight for democracy. Belarus President Alexander...
Israel is breaching international humanitarian law and is violating the rights of Palestinians by placing severe restrictions on family visits with Palestinian prisoners, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B'Tselem) said in...
President Bush Thursday reiterated his belief that "marriage is a union between a man and a woman" a day after the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples in the state must be afforded the same...
Thailand Army Chief Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratglin , who seized power from former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a bloodless military coup in September, admitted Thursday that investigators are struggling to find evidence of...
A Danish court dismissed a lawsuit Thursday filed by Muslim organizations against the two editors of the Danish newspaper who published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad earlier this year. Worldwide protests...
An Ontario Superior Court judge struck down a central provision of Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act Tuesday, saying it violates the constitutional rights of Momin Khawaja . Lawyers for Khawaja, the first person charged under...
A seven-man Rwandan government commission began an official probe Tuesday into accusations that France assisted a Hutu massacre of Tutsis during the 1994 genocide . Rwanda's current Tutsi President Paul Kagame [official...
