US President Barack Obama and Brazil President Dilma Rousseff met Tuesday and announced an agreement to address climate change. Both countries pledged to reduce carbon emissions by increasing the use of wind and solar power sources to 20 percent...
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said Thursday that he had presented documents to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to assist in the investigation of alleged Israeli war crimes. The documents describe the...
A Kansas judge for the Shawnee County District Court blocked a law on Thursday that would have effectively banned most second-trimester abortions performed in the state. Judge Larry Hendricks stated that the first-in-the-nation law would have...
A French court acquitted 14 companies accused of bribery on Thursday for negotiating contracts as part of the UN oil-for-food program with the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein . The oil-for-food program allowed...
Pro-democracy Hong Kong lawmakers voted Thursday to reject a bill that would have allowed Hong Kong's leader to be elected by the general public. After a lengthy debate, 28 legislators voted against the proposal, enough to defeat the...
The European Commission said Thursday that they have opened a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon's e-books business. The investigation will focus on particular clauses in Amazon's contracts requiring publishers to inform Amazon about more favorable or...
UN Special Rapporteur Miklós Haraszti on Thursday warned that Belarus continues to sentence and imprison political opponents of the government. Haraszti cited examples from April and May where existing prisoners we given extended sentences or placed...
An appeals court in New York on Wednesday granted a law license to an immigrant who was brought to the US illegally as a child. Cesar Vargas was brought to the US from Mexico by his mother...
The UN torture prevention body on Wednesday urged the Philippines to tackle urgent prison overcrowding issues and improve independent monitoring of detention facilities. During a visit by the six-member delegation, the Sub-Committee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT)...
The New York Assembly voted 89-47 on Wednesday in favor of legislation establishing publicly funded universal health coverage in which all New York residents may enroll. Supporters of the legislation said that the coverage would be...
