New Zealand Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne on Monday announced a plan to ban the use of drugs providing legal highs unless manufactures of such drugs can prove that they are clinically safe. The scientific...
A Hong Kong judge on Monday ruled against Deutsche Bank AG on a motion to dismiss a developer's rental fraud lawsuit. Judge A.T. Reyes for the Court of First Instance of the High Court held...
South African politician Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Monday was elected the first female leader of the African Union (AU) . Dlamini-Zuma, 63, is the South African Minister of Home Affairs. She was voted into office [AP...
Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was formally charged on Sunday with illegally arresting a former chief justice of the nation's criminal court and thereby violating the nation's constitution . The constitution allows for the arrest of a judge...
A Turkish court on Friday ordered the release of 16 individuals detained on accusations of having links to Kurdish militants. Busra Ersanli , a professor from Istanbul's Marmara University, and 15 other individuals will be released...
The Canadian government on Friday announced that it will appeal the decision of the Supreme Court of British Columbia striking down a ban on physician-assisted suicides. The Honourable Rob Nicholson for Niagara Falls,...
The Guttmacher Institute released a study on Thursday detailing how the enactment of numerous anti-abortion laws over the past decade has affected the reproductive rights of American women and created discrepancies among states. The report...
Twenty Ethiopian bloggers, journalists and senior opposition politicians were sentenced Friday to terms ranging from eight years to life in prison on terrorism charges. Amnesty International (AI) criticized the sentences, arguing that the measures taken...
The German government on Friday announced that it will act swiftly to lift criminal sanctions imposed on circumcision . Spokesperson for Chancellor Angela Merkel , Steffen Seibert, said that without adequate protections for the...
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Melissa Fleming on Friday reported that 10 UN staff and aid workers have been arrested in the northwestern Rakhine state of Myanmar and...
