UN Officials and the UN Security Council on Monday called for an end to fighting in the Southern Kordofan area of Sudan . Ivan Simonovic, Assistant Secretary-General for UN Office of the High Commissioner...

A Ukraine court on Monday dismissed Serhiy Vlasenko, a lawyer representing former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko , from judicial proceedings. Vlasenko had been defending Tymoshenko in a criminal case related to United Energy Systems of...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged the Bahraini government to end systematic attacks on injured patients and stop arresting medical professionals linked to recent anti-government protests. In a 54-page report entitled "Targets...

Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International (NI) and former editor of the newspaper News of the World , was arrested Sunday by UK police on charges related to a wide-spread phone hacking scandal. Police arrested Brooks...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Friday dismissed a lawsuit over the constitutional right to sell cigarettes. The lawsuit was brought by Safeway, Inc. , a...

The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday ordered that both Thailand and Cambodia immediately withdraw military personnel from a disputed area along the border between the two countries. The Temple of Preah...

A Milan criminal court on Monday denied a motion filed by Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to move his prostitution trial to the Tribunal of Ministers , a special court set...

A Hungarian court on Monday dropped war crimes charges against accused Nazi Sandor Kepiro, who was alleged to have participated in the 1942 Novi Sad massacre in Serbia. Thirty-five people were killed by Hungarian forces under Kepiro's control during...

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday criticized Turkey's neglect of some human rights issues , including a lack of religious freedom, the censoring of the internet and improper detention of...

Apple prevailed in a complaint against HTC on Saturday when the US International Trade Commission (USITC) ruled against HTC for patent infringement on patents 5,946,647 and 6,343,263...