Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday called for a new age of human rights and safety in the embattled Caucasus region of Russia, where the killings of journalists...

US Vice President Joe Biden announced Saturday that the US will appeal a ruling dismissing voluntary manslaughter and weapons charges against five Blackwater guards who were indicted for...

A federal judge on Friday reduced a $1.92 million jury verdict against a Minnesota woman who was found to have violated music copyrights to about $54,000. Chief Judge Michael Davis of the US District Court for the...

A German court in Nuremberg has issued an arrest warrant for Argentina's former de-facto president Jorge Videla for helping to cover up the death of a German citizen in 1978, at the height of the "Dirty War" [JURIST news...

The Hawaii Senate voted 18-7 Friday in favor of legislation allowing same-sex civil unions . The act would confer upon homosexual and heterosexual couples rights and benefits equal to those afforded married couples...

US President Barack Obama on Friday signed a bill that will allow Americans to claim contributions made to Haitian earthquake relief efforts as a deduction on their 2009 federal income tax returns....

The Swiss Federal Administrative Court ruled Thursday that an American taxpayer's financial information at Swiss bank UBS may not be disclosed to the US...

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas resigned Thursday in the midst of a dispute with President Dalia Grybauskaite over secret US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) secret prisons in the...

The Constitutional Court of Turkey on Thursday overturned a law that allowed the prosecution of military personnel in civilian courts and prevented military prosecution of civilians during peacetime. The court was unanimous in...

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu stated in a press conference Thursday that Chinese human rights lawyer and activist Gao Zhisheng is "where he should be." Ma stated that holding...