A court in Bahrain's capital, Manama, on Monday dropped the last charges against former member of parliament and Al-Wefaq leader Matar Matar . Two previous charges were dropped against Matar in August: "calling for...

The Provincial Court of Justice of Sucumbios in Lago Agrio, Ecuador denied an arbitration decision by The Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) on Friday, forwarding an appeal by Chevron ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday applauded the Somali parties who have reached a "crucial political agreement" on Friday at the Garowe II Constitutional Conference . According to Ban, the agreement provides the steps...

Latvian voters on Saturday rejected Russian as a second official state language in Latvia . Preliminary results from the national referendum show that 74.8 percent of voters rejected adding the Russian language with only 24.88 percent...

A chief US military tribunal judge has ruled that the content of attorney-client mail inspected at the Guantanamo Bay prison is confidential and may not be released. Judge James Pohl made the decision earlier this month in the case...

The Israeli Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear the hunger strike case of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, despite a military judge rejecting his appeal in early February. Since his December arrest in the West Bank,...

Myanmar police on Sunday charged a rebel Buddhist monk for occupying a government-closed monastery, only a month after he was given amnesty and released from prison . Shin Gambira, who was among 130 political prisoners freed last month...

A judge for the UK High Court ruled Monday for the British unit of Sony Corporation and eight other record labels on their copyright infringement claim against the Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay . Judge...

The US Supreme Court on Friday blocked enforcement of a Montana Supreme Court ruling, which upheld a state law limiting the amount of money corporations can spend on campaigns, until it can consider...

US Representatives Edward Markey and Joe Barton, members of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus , and Cliff Stearns, of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations , sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...