A US military court heard closing arguments Thursday at the pre-trial hearing for Pfc. Bradley Manning , which will determine whether he will face a court martial for his alleged role in the largest intelligence...

A Chinese court Friday sentenced human rights advocate Chen Wei to nine years in prison, the toughest ruling issued this year in the ongoing government crackdown on dissidents, rights activists and protest organizers. Chen, 42, was sentenced after a...

A federal judge ruled Thursday that financier Allen Stanford is mentally competent to stand trial for orchestrating a $7 billion Ponzi scheme affecting investors in both the US and Latin America. The decision came...

Victims of Thailand's flood crisis filed a complaint Thursday with Thailand's Central Administrative Court alleging that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and state agencies caused further damage during one of the countries worst floods. The complaint...

On Thursday, former Ukraine prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced that she will discontinue all appeals and that she will solely rely on the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of South Carolina on Thursday blocked portions of South Carolina's controversial immigration law . The legislation requires police officers to check a suspect's immigration...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit by a former Guantanamo Bay detainee alleging that he was subjected to torture....

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday said that the Bahrain government should release prisoners detained during peaceful protests and focus on rebuilding national trust in the government. Pillay's statement follows a...

The French National Assembly approved a draft law Thursday that would outlaw genocide denial, including the World War I-era killings of more than one million Armenians by Turkish soldiers. The measure would ban genocide denial...

Puerto Rican lawmakers on Wednesday approved legislation to hold a referendum on the island's status with the US. The House of Representatives passed the measure by a vote of 31-13 , and...