A regional court of the Philippines on Tuesday granted bail to former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who was detained on electoral fraud charges. The court reasoned that the evidence, based mainly on a single witness'...

The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany on Wednesday invalidated the country's election law as unconstitutional. Germany has a complex system that sometimes creates extra "overhang" parliamentary seats that benefit the larger parties,...

Mali security forces loyal to the country's coup leader, Captain Amadou Sanogo, have been abducting and torturing opposition soldiers and journalists, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday. The report says that 20 soldiers involved in...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia released an accused Somali pirate Tuesday after prosecutors failed to produce sufficient evidence to proceed to trial. English-speaking Somali citizen Ali Mohamed Ali, 50, was...

The African Union (AU) and the government of Senegal agreed on Tuesday to create a special court to try ex-Chadian dictator Hissene Habre for killing and torturing thousands of political opponents...

Statistics Canada announced Tuesday that the police-reported crime rate for 2011 declined six percent from 2010, reaching the lowest level since 1972. Throughout the country 1,984,916 incidents of crimes were reported in 2011—110,000 fewer than...

A senior Russian judge on Tuesday ordered a court to review the appeal of jailed former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky . It remains to be seen whether the order is on a legal technicality...

The Australian government has discontinued proceedings against former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks over the profits from his memoir. Australia's Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) decided to halt the...

An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday rejected a request by the defense counsel in the terror trial against the country's vice president Tariq al-Hashemi to call President Jalal Talabani to testify....

The Constitutional Court of Romania on Tuesday upheld a change to the country's referendum law that will lengthen voting times by four extra hours. The court ruled that the voting hours extension is constitutional [Bloomberg...