UN officials including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay , on Friday urged the Egyptian government to exercise restraint and respect the rights of protesters. Navi Pillay acknowledged reports of tactics...

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev on Friday signed into law a bill that ratifies the New Start treaty , an agreement between Russia and the US intended to reduce nuclear arms...

The Wyoming Senate on Thursday voted 20-10 in favor of Joint Resolution 5 , the first step to a constitutional amendment that would prevent the state from recognizing same-sex marriages from...

Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) leader Callixte Mbarushimana made his initial appearance before the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday and denied the charges against him, which relate...

The Myanmar Special Appellant Court dismissed an appeal Friday filed by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi challenging the government's dissolution of her National League of Democracy (NLD) . The dismissal effectively exhausts...

France's Constitutional Council on Friday ruled that the country's same-sex marriage ban does not violate the constitution . The council emphasized it may only interpret existing laws...

Chile Supreme Court Judge Sergio Munoz on Thursday ordered an investigation into the death of former socialist president Salvador Allende during the 1973 coup . Since the coup,...

Ukrainian prosecutors announced Thursday that they have opened a new criminal investigation of opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko . The prosecution's office alleges Tymoshenko, whose government was dissolved...

Specialist Jeremy Morlock has accepted a plea agreement offered by US Army prosecutors, according to a Washington Post report Wednesday. Under the agreement, Morlock, charged in June in the deaths of three Afghan civilians...

The Botswana Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that the indigenous Bushmen , or San, can drill wells in their village in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) , reversing a lower court...