A US rule ending a policy prohibiting people with HIV or AIDS from entering the country went into effect on Monday. The decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to remove HIV from...

The Malaysian Home Ministry on Monday appealed last week's ruling by the High Court that non-Muslims can use the word "Allah" as a translation for the word "God." The case was...

Threats against judges, US attorneys, and assistant US attorneys have more than doubled over the last six years, according to a report released Monday by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) . The report, conducted by...

Former vice-president of China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) Huang Songyou will stand trial on corruption charges, according to Sunday media reports. Prosecutors have not yet completed their investigation against Huang, who is accused of accepting...

Serbian police arrested alleged war criminal Darko Jankovic on Sunday. Jankovic is accused of killing at least 19 civilians in eastern Bosnia during the 1992-95 Bosnian civil war . A spokesperson for Serbia's Office of the War...

An Egyptian court on Sunday upheld a ban against wearing the niqab , or full-face veil, while taking university examinations. The Cairo Administrative Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by 55 niqab-wearing university students...

Incumbent Afghan Minister of Justice Sarwar Danish was among 17 cabinet nominees who were rejected on Saturday by the Wolesi Jirga , Afghanistan's lower house of parliament. Danish, who has served as Minister of...

The Peruvian Supreme Court has upheld a 25-year sentence given to former president Alberto Fujimori after his conviction on charges of ordering assassinations and kidnappings during his 1990-2000 presidency. The First...

A special court in Myanmar Friday charged US citizen Kyaw Zaw Lwin, also known as Nyi Nyi Aung , with forgery and violating the country's foreign currency act . The charges could result...

The Malaysian High Court ruled Thursday that non-Muslims can use the word "Allah" as a translation for the word "God", overturning a three-year government ban on the practice. The case was brought by the Herald, a...