The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Wednesday denied a petition for rehearing regarding its unanimous decision to vacate a district court ruling that the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (DADT) [10 USC...

The Australian Senate on Thursday passed the Tobacco Plain Packaging Bill 2011 which requires that cigarettes be sold in generic olive green packages, without brands or logos. The packages will also have warnings of...

Alleged al Qaeda senior leader Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri made his first court appearance Wednesday, his first public appearance since he was captured in Dubai in 2002. Nashiri is charged with war crimes [NYT...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases on preemption. In National Meat Association v. Harris , the court considered where the federal regime of slaughterhouse regulation as...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Wednesday for universal accession to the Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices (Protocol II) . The comments came as part...

Sixteen Latin American, Caribbean and South American governments have filed supporting briefs in a lawsuit filed last week by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) challenging the South Carolina's newly adopted immigration law [SB 20...

A trial court in the West Indian state of Gujarat on Wednesday convicted 31 people of crimes committed during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The guilty were convicted of murder, arson and rioting while charges criminal...

The UN Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) on Tuesday urged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) government to take appropriate actions to successfully abolish election-related violence before the upcoming presidential election on November 28....

A Tunisian appellate court ruled Tuesday that a Libyan senior official who served under Muammar Gaddafi should be extradited back to Libya. Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi , Gaddafi's former prime minister,...

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Wednesday new charges may be warranted against those close to former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi . According to Ocampo, an investigation into...