Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey declared on Thursday that Massachusetts will be joining fellow states in suing President Donald Trump to block his new travel ban executed on Monday. Trump's new executive order has removed Iraq...
The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) published a report on Friday describing a plethora of human rights violations committed by the Turkish government between July 2015 and December 2016. Satellite imagery analysis has revealed [OHCHR...
The Bangladesh Parliament on Monday passed revisions to the Child Marriage Restraint Act , allowing girls under the age of 18 to be married under "special circumstances." The revisions do not change the...
The People's Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey filed an application Monday asking the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to address the continuous and allegedly unlawful imprisonment of the party's co-chairs. Thirteen HDP politicians...
A Tel Aviv military court on Tuesday issued an 18-month prison sentence to an Israeli soldier who stirred Middle Eastern tensions after executing a Palestinian last year. Contrary to military guidelines, Sgt. Elor Azaria, an army medic, shot [AP...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Monday affirmed a lower court ruling in favor of a pro-marijuana student group that was barred from using university trademarks. Iowa State University (ISU) [official...
The Parliament of Montenegro on Monday provisionally approved a motion requesting that immunity be lifted for two officials possibly involved in an attempted coup last October. The motion, raised by Chief Special Prosecutor Milivoje Katnic,...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an appellate brief Monday in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit calling for the reinstatement of President Donald Trump's controversial immigration order. Regarding...
Israel's Knesset on Monday voted 60-52 in favor of a bill that retroactively legalizes the thousands of Jewish settlement homes currently located in the Palestinian West Bank territory. The new legislation allows the government to...
Pakistani authorities on Monday placed militant leader Hafiz Muhammad Saeed under house arrest for his connection to the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the charity known as Jamaat-ud-Dawa . Saeed has been accused of orchestrating the...
