UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed disappointment Monday with Nepal for its failure to meet the Sunday deadline to write a new constitution. With the country's failure to draft a new constitution, Ban...

Bahraini rights activist Nabeel Rajab was released on bail on Monday, according to his lawyer. Rajab was arrested for insulting a statutory body through messages he posted on Twitter criticizing the Interior Ministry. Rajab is the...

Most of the victims of a recent massacre in Houla, Syria , were shot at close range, including women and children, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) revealed...

Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja has ended his hunger strike because he believes he has adequately raised awareness of his cause , Al-Khawaja's wife told Reuters on Monday. Al-Khawaja has been on...

The Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission (SPEC) of Egypt announced presidential election results on Monday and declared that there will be a run-off election between the top two candidates later in June. The run-off will be between Muslim...

US President Barack Obama announced Thursday that he will nominate Dr. Allison Macfarlane as the new head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) . Macfarlane is known as an advocate for safe...

Special war crimes tribunals of the government of Bangladesh on Monday indicted the chief of Bangladesh's largest Islamic party, along with his deputy, for alleged human rights atrocities committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan....

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled on Friday that a lawsuit opposing a Ten Commandments monument displayed on property owned by the City of Fargo, North Dakota, may move forward. The...

Federal prosecutors on Friday asked Judge Katherine Forrest of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to lift an injunction she placed earlier this month on sections of the National Defense...

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback on Friday signed a bill into law that prohibits state courts, tribunals and agencies from basing any decisions "in whole or in part" on foreign or religious law. The law...