The US Congress on a voice vote on Thursday approved a bill extending the ban on imports from Myanmar . Both the House of Representative and the Senate have approved the bill [Reuters...

The UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) on Wednesday renewed its call for an end to the violence between the Syrian government and opposition forces in preparation for planned food assistance by the...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday issued an emergency injunction to block enforcement of a new Arizona abortion regulation that will ban abortions after 20...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Wednesday welcomed a new project initiated by the government of Nigeria to resolve the oil contamination affecting the people of Ogoniland. The Nigeria decision came a...

Apple filed a motion in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday requesting that the court sanction Samsung Electronics by ruling in Apple's favor in the ongoing patent...

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced two new economic sanctions on Iran's oil exports that aim to cut the country's financial transactions with the Chinese and Iraqi banks...

Japanese authorities on Wednesday began a criminal investigation into last year's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster . The Fukushima Prosecutor accepted a criminal complaint filed in June by more than 1,300 people against Tokyo Electric Power Company...

The widow and daughter of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday asked a French court to investigate what they believe to be the murder of the former Palestinian leader. The allegations of Suha and Zahwa Arafat...

The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) infringed on the authority given to state regulators by the Clean Water Act [text;...

Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday published a report holding the Syrian government responsible for human rights violations in Aleppo that AI claims amount to crimes against humanity. "All-out repression: Purging dissent in Aleppo, Syria" [report, PDF; press...