US authorities have engaged in the torture of detainees, and the nation's "highest officials" bear some of the responsibility, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Constitution Project , a bi-partisan legal advocacy and...

A bipartisan group of US senators on Tuesday unveiled details of the long-awaited immigration reform bill that would remove the threat of deportation for millions of undocumented immigrants and provide a path to citizenship. Under the legislation, an...

A three-member appellate tribunal on Tuesday disqualified former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf from running in the upcoming parliamentary election for the remote northern district of Chitral. Musharraf returned to Pakistan last month...

Kuwait opposition leader and former MP Mussallam Al Barrak was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison for criticizing leader Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah , which is a crime under Kuwait's...

Kenya's Supreme Court on Tuesday released a 113-page judgment upholding the results of the March presidential election. The court unanimously upheld the results last month but just released its reasoning, finding that the process...

Ireland will hold a referendum on same-sex marriage after the Convention on the Constitution , voted Sunday to grant full marriage rights to same-sex couples. Article 46 of the Irish Constitution provides that any...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree Tuesday reducing prison terms by three quarters for some members of rebel forces. The decree, announced by the state news agency SANA , has been condemned by...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday blocked the extradition of Haroon Aswat, a former aide to radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri , from the UK to...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in two new cases on Monday. In Heimeshoff v. Hartford Life & Accident Insurance Co. the court will hear arguments the deadline for filing...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. , which deals with the issue of whether human genes are patentable. Myriad Genetics...