The Russian Federation Council on Wednesday voted to ratify the New START treaty , an agreement between Russia and the US intended to reduce nuclear arms in both countries. The upper...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) demanded Tuesday that Albania and Kosovo investigate and prosecute alleged incidents of organ trafficking, inhuman treatment and other crimes by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) [official...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday sentenced former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani to life imprisonment for his...

A Peruvian appeals court announced on Monday it has rejected the government's petition to overturn a lower court's decision to grant parole to Lori Berenson , a US citizen held since 1995 for collaboration with a Marxist rebel...

The UN defended the human rights record of Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon Monday after criticism from Human Rights Watch (HRW) . HRW released an annual report Monday, which claimed that EU member states...

The Wyoming House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill that would prevent Wyoming from recognizing same-sex marriages and civil unions performed out-of-state. House Bill 74, Validity of Marriage, was passed by a 32-27...

The UN Secretary-General's special adviser on maritime piracy Jack Lang warned Security Council members on Monday that more needs to be done to bring Somali pirates to justice, proposing an international...

The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka ruled Tuesday that the court-martial of former army chief and parliament minister Sarath Fonseka was legal and bars him from serving in government. Fonseka had appealed...

French authorities on Tuesday transferred Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) leader Callixte Mbarushimana to The Hague where he will stand trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) ...

US President Barack Obama announced Monday that he will nominate veteran Supreme Court lawyer and former clerk for Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Donald Verrilli for the position of solicitor general . Verrilli, who...