The war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor concluded Friday leaving judges in the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) to deliberate on the verdict. The prosecution gave its closing...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday urged the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to take action against the government of Puerto Rico for alleged civil rights violations....

A grand jury in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Thursday indicted 14 suspects for overtaking a yacht containing four Americans. The Americans, taken as hostages, were later killed by the pirates,...

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh promised Thursday to create a new constitution guaranteeing parliamentary and judiciary freedoms, but protesters were not satisfied, flooding the streets in response. In a speech given to supporters in Sana'a,...

A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sentenced 11 army officers to prison for raping more than 20 women last year, a court official said Thursday. Three officers were sentenced to...

King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Wednesday announced plans for a series of constitutional reforms , which, if enacted, would result in more power being given to elected officials, as well as an independent judiciary. Under the plan, the...

The Oklahoma House of Representatives voted 94-2 Wednesday to approve a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of gestation. The "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act," similar to a bill passed...

The Kenyan government announced Wednesday that they will challenge the admissibility of cases relating to the 2007-2008 post-election violence in the International Criminal Court (ICC) , as well as the jurisdiction of the...

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed Senate Bill 3539 on Wednesday, absolishing the death penalty in Illinois. Two months after the Illinois Senate approved the bill , Quinn signed the bill...

Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday asked a federal judge to cancel his retrial and sentence him on the single charge on which was originally convicted. Blagojevich was found guilty ...