The Indonesian attorney general's office Sunday confirmed that three men convicted for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings which killed 202 people were executed by firing squad just after midnight Saturday local time. The executions were carried out...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Oregon has ruled that the US Treasury Department's freezing of the assets of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation violated the organization's due processes rights because it...

A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday sentenced two lawyers from the National League for Democracy (NLD to four month prison terms for being "disrespectful" while representing dissident students. The US Department of State...

A judge in Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court on Friday ruled that the sodomy trial of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will not be transferred to the country's High Court. The application...

A ballot measure to prohibit governmental agencies from discriminating or granting preferences on the basis of race and sex has been narrowly rejected by voters in Colorado, according...

The 2008 fiscal year led to record deportations of undocumented immigrants in the US according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports Thursday. Nationwide, ICE deported 349,041 immigrants during the 2008 fiscal year ending September 30,...

Malaysian High Court Justice Syed Ahmad Helmy Syed Ahmad ordered the release of blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin on Friday, finding insufficient grounds for his arrest under the country's Internal Security Act (ISA) , which allows for...

Judge Richard Leon of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday began habeas corpus hearings for six Algerians challenging their detention at Guantanamo Bay. The hearings are the first to be...

The UN General Assembly and Security Council on Thursday elected five new judges to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) . Judges Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh of Jordan, currently the...

The British and Falkland Islands governments announced Thursday that they have agreed on a new constitution for the disputed South Atlantic Islands, a British territory also claimed by Argentina. Under the new constitution, primary governing power is...