Lawyers for ousted former Brazil president Dilma Rousseff filed documents with the Superior Electoral Court in Brazil on Thursday alleging that her former vice president and current President Michel Temer took a large bribe. Specifically, the...
The Ivory Coast Constitutional Council on Friday affirmed the results of a referendum backing a new constitution, rejecting requests from several political parties, including that of former president Laurent Gbagbo , who boycotted the vote that the referendum be...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Colorado on Friday blocked Colorado officials from enforcing laws that prosecute or cite voters who take selfies at the ballots. Colorado Rev. Stat. § 1-13-712(1)...
The US Supreme Court issued an order on Thursday granting a last-minute stay of execution just as state officials in Alabama were preparing to execute Thomas Douglas Arthur by lethal injection. The application for the stay was...
For the first time in history, governments around the world have agreed to legally binding limits on global temperature rises as the Paris Agreement on climate change became effective on Friday. All governments that have ratified...
The UN General Assembly on Friday elected 14 member-states by secret ballot to serve three-year terms on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) beginning January 1. The newly elected countries include Brazil, Croatia, Egypt,...
A jury in Portland, Oregon on Thursday acquitted all seven defendants involved in the 41-day armed occupation of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge , in a trial that lasted nearly six weeks. The defendants were acquitted of...
The Iraq Parliament approved a law "Forbidding the import, manufacture and sale of all kinds of alcohol drinks." Until this time, alcohol has been made readily available in shops, bars, restaurant and hotels in Baghdad and in some...
Airbnb filed suit against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and New York City Mayor Mayor Bill de Blasio in federal court on Friday challenging Senate Bill S6340A, signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo hours earlier, which...
UN High Commissioner for of Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein on Friday expressed outrage over the human rights crisis in Syria, stating that, "he violations and abuses suffered by people across the country, including the siege...
