Former prime minister of Iceland Geir Haarde went on trial Monday on charges of negligence relating to the 2008 financial crisis . The charges stem from the collapse of the country's three major...

Iran's Supreme Court on Monday overturned the death sentence of alleged US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spy Amir Mirzaei Hekmati and ordered a retrial. The Supreme Court objected to the ruling and annulled it , sending...

A group of shareholders in the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) on Monday filed a USD $67 billion lawsuit against TEPCO officials for failing to prevent the March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant [IAEA...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday ordered Russia's prosecutor general to conduct a study into 32 criminal cases, including the case of ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky . Khodorkovsky, who was...

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in Martel v. Clair that, when ruling on a defendant's motion to replace counsel in a capital case, "courts should employ the same 'interests of justice'...

Iranian human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after being found guilty by a Tehran Revolutionary Court of spreading anti-government propaganda, his daughter confirmed...

Israel's Ramat Gan Family Court ruled Sunday that a lesbian couple can both be recognized as mothers of a child they had together. The women received permission from the Health Ministry in 2006 to conceive the child...

A group of three UN human rights experts on Friday implored Pakistan to increase efforts to curb growing sectarian violence . Noting a recent uptick in sectarian related attacks, the group of experts warned that "sectarian violence threatens...

The Egyptian parliament began discussions Saturday regarding the make-up of the constitutional assembly that will be responsible for writing Egypt's new constitution. The newly elected parliament will choose the members of the 100-member council...

The UN International Commission of Inquiry on Libya submitted its findings on Friday, reporting that war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed by both sides of the recent Libyan conflict . Established in February 2011...