Nepal's High Level Probe Commission submitted its final report Monday to the Nepalese government, concluding that King Gyanendra and some 200 members of his administration were responsible for the violent response to the...
China's deputy chief prosecutor has said that almost every wrongful conviction in the country in recent years has been the result of torture and intensive interrogation techniques. The government has discovered at least 30 people who were...
The United States and Russia signed a landmark trade agreement Sunday bringing Russia one step closer in its 13-year drive for membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) . Under the agreement, Russia...
The US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Monday upheld an Ohio regulation requiring a women to meet with a doctor 24 hours prior to an abortion procedure but reversed a District Court ruling ...
The US Supreme Court Monday denied an application by US citizen Mohammad Munaf for a temporary injunction postponing his transfer to Iraqi custody where he faces the death...
A top Iranian prosecutor called for the arrest and extradition of several Argentina officials and judges Sunday in response to an Argentinean judge's Thursday arrest order for former Iran President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani [official website,...
Michigan voters Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment banning affirmative action in public employment, public education and state contracting. The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative pushed Proposal 2 which prohibits preferential treatment based on race, gender,...
UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland called Tuesday for a freeze on the use of controversial cluster munitions at the outset of the Third Review Conference in...
Lawyers for a southern California Indian tribe argued before the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Monday that the tribe is exempt from the National Labor Relations Act on grounds of tribal sovereignty. The San Manuel tribe ...
The chairman of Britain's Commission for Racial Equality says that he plans to investigate possible racial biases in the nation's crime-fighting DNA database in the wake of reports that according to initial Home Office [official...
