Hobby Lobby, Inc. requested an exemption from the mandate to provide employees with coverage for contraceptives under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in an en banc hearing before the US Court...

The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) and the Kosovo Police Special Operations Unit ROSU arrested five people Thursday on suspicion of war crimes in the 1998-1999 conflict ....

US District Judge Denise Cote expressed a tentative view on Thursday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) would be able to show at trial that Apple knowingly participated in and facilitated a conspiracy to raise...

The Afghan Parliament approved two new electoral laws Wednesday that will take effect in the elections next spring. According to Tolo News of Afghanistan , the statutes in question will provide a legal framework for the quarantine of...

US President Barack Obama delivered a speech Thursday on US counterterrorism policy and efforts, outlining plans to restrict the use of unmanned drone strikes and to renew efforts to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay...

Lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay prisoners filed a complaint Thursday alleging search policies restrict the detainees' access to counsel. According to a new policy , detainees are subject to a genital pat-down whenever...

Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday published its annual report entitled State of the World's Human Rights , which details the human rights landscape across the world in 2012. The report focuses on the increasing danger faced by...

The Malaysian Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday seized more than 2,500 copies of newspapers published by opposition parties. The Ministry states that the seized newspapers were sold in violation of...

A Russian court on Thursday denied parole for Maria Alekhina, a member of the feminist rock band Pussy Riot . Band members Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich were sentenced to two years...

The North Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday acquitted seven police officers accused of killing a protester and injuring 11 others during the January 2011 revolution. The public prosecution had charged these seven police officers with attempted and premeditated murder....