A judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday rejected a proposed settlement to address the claims of people with illnesses from working on the World Trade Center (WTC) in...
The Internet has experienced a 20 percent increase in militant and hate content over the past year, according to a report released on Monday by the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Tolerance . The report, titled "Digital Terrorism and...
Vietnamese human rights lawyer and activist Le Thi Cong Nhan was released from prison on Saturday after serving a three-year sentence for allegedly spreading propaganda against the state. Although she has been released [AP...
The Malaysian Federal Court ruled Monday that the 1998 removal of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim as deputy prime minister was constitutional. Anwar had challenged his removal on the grounds that the removal was unconstitutional...
Several human rights groups and anti-mine activists on Monday urged the US to join the Mine Ban Treaty , marking the eleventh anniversary of the treaty's status as binding international law. Despite initial statements from the US...
UK police on Monday arrested former Bosnian vice president Ejup Ganic for war crimes in connection with a 1992 attack against Serbian soldiers. Ganic, vice president during the outset of the 1992-1995 Bosnian civil war , was...
The Constitutional Court of Colombia voted 7-2 Friday to strike down as unconstitutional a law that would have allowed a referendum to amend the Colombian Constitution to enable current...
Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy was accused in a new lawsuit filed Friday in the Phnom Penh Municipal Court by the Cambodian government of forging and then disseminating a...
Reconciliation in Liberia hinges on the development of its national security and its legal institutions, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon emphasized in a new progress report released Monday. The UN report recognizes...
Suspected terrorist Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty Monday to three criminal charges of conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction in the US and to commit murder in a foreign country, as well as providing material support for...
