An Oslo district court on Monday began hearing a suit initiated by tobacco company Philip Morris against Norway for the country's display ban on tobacco products. The company argues...
A Kuwait court on Monday sentenced a man to ten years of imprisonment for posting insulting and defaming comments about the Prophet Muhammad and the Sunni Muslim rulers of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain on Twitter...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged countries on Sunday to increase their efforts to counter the prevalent threat of terrorism . At a second meeting of the advisory board of the UN Centre for Counter-Terrorism...
A court in Kazakhstan sentenced 13 out of 37 defendants to between three and seven years of imprisonment for their participation in unrest last December that resulted in at least 15 deaths and hundreds of injuries. The...
The Glostrup City Court on Monday sentenced four men to 12 years in prison for their attempt to kill people inside the office of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (JP) . Mounir Ben Mohamed Dhahri, Munir Awad, Omar Abdalla Aboelazm...
The Federal Arbitration Court in Tyumen on Monday ordered a new hearing in a lower court in a lawsuit against British Petroleum (BP) . The suit was brought by minority shareholders in BP's Russian venture, TNK-BP, alleging that...
Chinese authorities on Monday detained hundreds of activists in Beijing marking the twenty-third anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. The arrests came a day after the US urged China to free Tiananmen Square activists who...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged Rwanda to stop assisting an accused war criminal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who is wanted...
The Supreme Court of Libya on Sunday agreed to rule on a controversial law that criminalizes and punishes speech and propaganda endangering the security of the state or glorifying former leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged the Sudanese government to reform its discriminatory laws and abolish both the death penalty and all corporal punishment after a young Sudanese woman was sentenced to death...
