Prominent Bahraini rights activist Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to three months in prison on Monday in connection to comments he posted on his Twitter page in June. Rajab was arrested last month for posting...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court voted 3-3 on Thursday not to reopen a case challenging the state's collective bargaining law because of a justice's refusal to recuse himself. The court ruled in a...

Baghdad's Criminal Court has postponed the trial of Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president Tariq al-Hashimi until a federal court rules in a pending case on whether the president and other lawmakers can be questioned by the defense...

French President Francois Hollande announced on Saturday that he plans a new law that would make it a crime to deny the killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was a genocide. The...

The leaders of six West African nations urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate war crimes in Mali at a crisis summit on Saturday. Malian soldiers took control of the government...

Lawyers for the state of Georgia argued Friday in court filings with the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit that its immigration law is constitutional under the recent US Supreme Court ruling in...

The New York Fourth Appellate Division for the Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a challenge to the state's year-old Marriage Equality Act (MEA) , ruling that closed-door meetings between gay rights advocates and state...

Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi on Thursday issued a decree appointing a fact-finding committee to investigate the deaths of protesters in last year's demonstrations. The committee is made up of 16 members including judges, a state prosecutor, a...

Lawmakers in Romania voted on Friday to impeach President Traian Basescu for overstepping the bounds of his authority by interfering in judicial and legislative affairs. The Romanian Parliament voted 256-114 for impeachment. Romanian...

US President Barack Obama signed legislation on Friday that prevents the interest rate on student loans from increasing and maintains jobs on infrastructure and transportation projects nationwide. The bill keeps the interest rate on...