US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp expressed concern Tuesday over the potential adoption of a state aggression law by the International Criminal Court (ICC) , claiming that it could undermine the integrity of...

Members of the Quebec National Assembly on Wednesday introduced Bill 103 aimed at tightening the province's language laws. The bill seeks to limit the number of students attending English language schools by increasing fines on schools...

Spain's conservative Popular Party (PP) on Tuesday asked the country's high court to declare the recently approved changes to Spain's abortion laws unconstitutional. Under the new law, abortions performed in...

The city of Tucson, Arizona has joined a lawsuit against the the state's new immigration law , a court filing revealed Tuesday. Tucson was originally named as a defendant along...

Canadian Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart announced Tuesday that an investigation has been launched into inadvertent data collection by Google while photographing streetscapes on unsecured wireless networks for its Street View...

Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday condemned the recent execution of 18 people in Libya . The executed were charged with pre-meditated murder and several were foreign nationals from Chad, Egypt, and Nigeria. AI...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday called on the Obama administration to stop shielding Bush administration officials from civil suit and criminal prosecution in relation to the treatment of detainees in US custody....

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has failed to formulate a coordinated response to an attack involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD), according a report released Tuesday by DOJ Inspector General Glenn Fine ....

Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday filed an amicus curiae brief supporting the right to limit protests around military funerals in the case of Snyder v. Phelps . The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST...

Three judges were killed and three people were injured Tuesday in a Chinese courthouse by a security officer at a local bank. The shooter, Zhu Jun, was the head of security at a local Postal Savings Bank in Hunan...