Three Somali pirates accused of hijacking a private yacht off the coast of Somalia in 2009 went on trial in France Monday. The situation garnered heavy media coverage after French special services attempted to rescue the three...
France Constitutional Council on Friday upheld France's ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking , finding that banning the controversial natural gas extraction process is a valid means of protecting the environment....
The International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled Friday that the case against former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi is inadmissible before the ICC and can be heard by domestic...
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood filed a lawsuit Monday appealing a court verdict ordering the interim government to seize the group's assets. The decision by the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters handed down September...
The investigation into allegations that former French president Nicolas Sarkozy exploited L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt into donating illicit election campaign funds has been dropped, according to Monday reports. Bettencourt's accountant...
The US Department of Justice filed papers Wednesday dropping opposition to the release of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ibrahim Idris . The DOJ will not object to a judge issuing a release for Idris who...
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday held that the International Trade Commission (ITC) erred in finding that Motorola Mobility, a branch of Google did not infringe a Microsoft...
The Spanish government must do more to provide information on the whereabouts of individuals who disappeared during the Spanish Civil War and the Francisco Franco regime, experts from the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances...
The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Monday sentenced Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, a member of parliament for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) , to death for war crimes committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War...
The first UN ministerial meeting on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals was held Thursday during the General Assembly's annual high-level debate. Representatives from the US, France, Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, the Netherlands, Norway,...
