The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday upheld the death sentence for Mohammad Ajmal Kasab , the only surviving shooter in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks ....
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that tobacco companies do not need to print graphic warnings of the dangers of smoking on cigarette packages. In a 2-1 decision,...
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach filed a lawsuit on Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas challenging a policy directive to defer the...
Egypt President Mohammed Morsi issued a new law on Thursday that bans pre-trial detentions of journalists for speaking out against the government. The new law, the first decree Morsi has issued since he granted...
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, will face trial in September, according to Libyan prosecutors. Although the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued a warrant for his arrest for...
South Korea's Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that the nation's 59-year-old ban on abortions is constitutional. The eight-judge panel was deadlocked 4-4 in deciding whether to uphold the abortion ban, but six votes...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of a Missouri law that...
A panel of UN human rights experts on Tuesday urged Chile to make sure that people who have been convicted of enforced disappearances serve their sentences . The UN Working Group on Enforced...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the government of Thailand on Thursday to order its army chief to stop obstructing investigations into political violence in 2010 arising from anti-government protests . Last week the...
A gay rights group urged the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to review a provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that denies benefits to married same-sex couples. The...
