The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) announced Friday that it will investigate three additional bomb attacks that may be connected to the February 2005 attack that killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri [BBC...

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo and his wife Simone were arrested and charged on Thursday for a variety of economic crimes including looting, embezzlement and armed robbery. Most of Gbagbo's remaining supporters were arrested ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday urged the UN Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the violent suppression of anti-government protests. Pillay's remarks came...

US President Barack Obama announced major reforms to America's current immigration system on Thursday, putting 300,000 illegal immigrants' cases up for review and temporarily halting their deportation. The new guidelines direct the...

The Second District Court of Appeals in Los Angeles on Wednesday upheld a $13.8 million judgment against Philip Morris in the death of 45-year-old lifelong smoker Betty Bullock. Family of the deceased won...

After a day's deliberation, the Council of States , India's upper house of parliament voted 189 - 17 on Thursday to impeach Justice Soumitra Sen , a justice of the Calcutta High Court [official...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC) and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights filed suit Monday challenging the practice of shackling immigration detainees in court. The suit,...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday began the retrial of Ramush Haradinaj , a Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander and the former prime minister of Kosovo, who was acquitted [JURIST...

Syrian government forces cracking down on the opposition may be committing crimes against humanity, according to a report published Thursday by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) . The...

The Supreme Court of British Columbia dismissed a right to die suit by the Farewell Foundation for lack of standing on Wednesday but encouraged the group to intervene in a...