The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said Tuesday that her office will conduct a preliminary examination into the 2010 Israeli raid on an aid flotilla bound for the blockaded Gaza strip in...
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ICC opens preliminary examination of 2010 Israel flotilla raid
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Bahrain court jails 6 for insulting tweets
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Guatemala court: government must apologize for acts of genocide
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South Carolina sued over sex assignment surgery performed on child
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California governor appeals order to curb prison overcrowding
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Vermont House approves physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill
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Minnesota governor signs same-sex marriage bill into law
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Germany court orders Google to remove defamatory autocomplete results
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Europe rights court rules Switzerland laws on assisted suicide too vague
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Minnesota senate approves same-sex marriage bill
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A court in Bahrain sentenced six individuals to a year in prison on Wednesday for insulting King Hamad via Twitter . Since the nation's pro-democracy protests in Manama that began in February 2011, activists have...
A Guatemalan court on Monday ordered the government to apologize to the Ixil Maya, an indigenous people, for acts of genocide that were committed against them when former dictator Efrain Rios Montt was in...
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) sued the South Carolina Department of Social Services (SCDSS) , social workers and doctors on Tuesday on behalf of a couple whose adopted child underwent sex assignment surgery while in...
California Governor Jerry Brown and various state prison officials on Monday filed a notice of appeal to the US Supreme Court from an April order requiring the governor to reduce California's prison population....
The Vermont House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill that would allow a consulting physician to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to a terminally ill individual who meets certain criteria. For the...
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton on Tuesday signed a bill into law making the state the twelfth to legalize same-sex marriage . The bill was given final approval in the Senate [official...
The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe on Tuesday ordered Google to remove defamatory autocomplete results if notified. The plaintiffs, an unidentified company selling nutritional supplements and its founder,...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that Swiss law does not provide sufficient guidelines on the extent of the right to die, in violation of Article 8 of the European...
The Minnesota Senate voted 37-30 Monday in favor of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage . The bill was approved by the House of Representatives last week and will now go to...
