Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Thursday appealed a ruling that struck down an Oklahoma law restricting how doctors may use abortion-inducing drugs to treat patients. Three weeks ago, a...

The UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Wednesday transferred the case of Bernard Munyagishari to the authorities of the Republic of Rwanda. The Referral Chamber of the ICTR ruled upon...

A judge for the US District Court Southern District of New York ruled Wednesday that the US government cannot hold people indefinitely, relying on the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011, for their alleged...

Louisiana Governor Bob Jindal signed a bill on Friday increasing abortion restrictions in the state. The bill was approved by the Senate in April as a measure to ensure informed consent...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon submitted a report on Wednesday to the UN Security Council concerning the situation of children affected by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda. The...

Federal prosecutors urged a judge on Wednesday to give Allen Stanford the maximum sentence of 230 years in prison for his involvement in a $47 million Ponzi scheme. This would be the maximum sentence...

A former associate of deceased Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was convicted in absentia on Thursday of embezzling money and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Mohammed Rashid , along with two other businessmen, was...

Spain's public prosecutor's anti-corruption unit on Wednesday began its investigation against Bankia to determine whether there is sufficient ground to take penal action against the nationalized company. This measure was initiated after public outrage against...

Egyptian lawmakers reached an agreement on the composition of the constitutional council on Thursday after a controversy over the political balance threatened to halt drafting of a new constitution. Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court in April effectively suspended ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday urged the Pakistani government to continue to work to improve its human rights situation. In particular, Pillay stressed that the government must work to...