The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday opened the trial of Goran Hadzic , the last suspect to be tried by the court. Hadzic, one 161 people tried by...

A tax evasion hearing for former Ukraine prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was delayed Monday again due to Tymoshenko's health. Tymoshenko's lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko, requested the trial be postponed before court...

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted review of Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. , the first case of the term where they will consider one of the...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday called on Tunisian authorities to investigate a series of attacks by religious extremists over the last 10 months and to bring to justice those responsible. Of the artists, intellectuals...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday urged Bahrain's court of appeals to overturn the conviction of human right advocate Nabeel Rajab . Rajab, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BHCR) [advocacy...

Ohio officials on Saturday urged the US Supreme Court to approve its request for an emergency stay of an injunction against the state's new early voting regulation. The brief was filed after US President Barack...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Monday filed a lawsuit against Morgan Stanley over allegedly discriminatory practices leading up to the housing crisis of 2008. According to the ACLU, between...

Apple on Monday appealed a Tokyo District Court ruling which dismissed Apple's claim that Samsung had infringed on Apple's patents. The appeal comes after Judge Tamotsu Shoji ruled in...

UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond on Monday formally agreed to hold a referendum regarding the independence of Scotland, potentially ending the union between the two nations in place since...

The Syrian military is using cluster munitions against opposition forces, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Sunday. A Youtube video , posted by Syrian opposition forces, showed remnants of cluster munitions allegedly near several...