Yemen's Ministry of Defense announced Tuesday that a Yemeni court has sentenced six Somali pirates to death and six additional pirates to 10-year jail sentences for the hijacking of a Yemeni oil...
DC-based consumer advocacy organization Food and Water Watch (FWW) filed suit in a US district court Monday against the US Department of Interior (DOI) and the Minerals Management Service (MMS) for an injunction...
A Haitian court on Monday convicted US missionary Laura Silsby of attempting to illegally smuggle 33 Haitian children to the US through the Dominican Republic in the wake of the January 12 earthquake . Silsby was found...
The appeals court for Iraq's Justice and Accountability Commission on Monday overturned a ban on nine newly elected members of parliament accused of having ties to the banned Baath Party .The ad hoc commission was created to eliminate...
The US Supreme Court on Monday held in Graham v. Florida that the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishments prohibits the imprisonment of a...
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 7-2 in United States v. Comstock that mentally ill sex offenders may be civilly committed beyond their prison sentences. The court upheld...
Pakistan's Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday ordered the principal secretary for President Asif Ali Zardari principle secretary to appear before the court in order to explain how Zardari is able to effectively serve...
Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) announced on Sunday that the partial recount of the March parliamentary elections will not alter seat allocations awarded in accordance with the provisional results. The commission...
The UN General Assembly on Thursday elected 14 new members to the Human Rights Council (HRC) , half of which have questionable human rights records. Several of the new members, including Libya, Angola, Malaysia, Thailand,...
The Roman Catholic Diocese in Vermont on Thursday settled with dozens of former alter boys who alleged they were sexually abused by several clergy 30 years ago. The church agreed to pay 26 accusers a total of...
