The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs has ruled that the Palestinian Authority (PA) does not enjoy sovereign immunity and can be sued in Israeli courts for its alleged involvements in terrorism. The ministry, in...
The human rights situation in Iraq is "disastrous" five years after the US-led invasion of the country, according to a report from Amnesty International released Monday. According to the report's introduction:Five years after...
The Constitutional Court of Turkey on Monday said it will decide whether to consider a bid to disband the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) within ten days, adding that the...
Exiled Tibetan spiritual and political leader Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama on Sunday accused China of committing "cultural genocide" in Tibet, and said he will not call for an end to ongoing...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) began the trial of Croatian general Ante Gotovina and two other militant commanders Tuesday. Gotovina, Ivan Cermak,...
US House Government Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) accused the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Monday of withholding information from the committee and threatened to take action to compel production of the requested...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued new guidelines Monday limiting the appointment of independent monitors to verify corporate compliance with deferred-prosecution agreements. The new guidelines, which prohibit corporations from hiring monitors with existing ties to the...
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak accused Nigeria's national police of widespread human rights violations Monday, telling the UN Human Rights Council that Nigerian police routinely tortured suspects during investigations. Nowak also deplored Nigeria's...
Chinese prosecutors increased the number of corruption convictions against government officials by 30 percent in the past five years, according to a Monday report by Chinese Procurator-General Jia Chunwang at the First Session of the...
A court in the Philippines acquitted Imelda Marcos and two co-defendants of 32 counts of illegal fund transfers Monday, ending a 17-year criminal trial in which prosecutors accused the widow of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos of...
