The UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday adopted by 185-3 a resolution urging the US to lift its longstanding embargo on Cuba . Only the US, Israel, and Palau voted...

The US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday issued a report revealing that top Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials opposed FDA regulations that preempt consumers’ ability to bring tort...

Ecuador selected a new temporary Supreme Court on Wednesday via lottery, but the judges picked plan to reject their appointments. The previous Supreme Court was abolished under a new constitution that took effect last week. The...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday called for the addition of a clause to the pending US-Iraqi security agreement that would shield detainees from transfer to Iraqi custody in order to avoid...

Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman announced Wednesday he is calling a special session of the state legislature on November 14 to amend Nebraska's so-called 'safe haven' law . The law, which went into effect in...

Ontario Superior Court Justice Douglas Rutherford Wednesday convicted Ottawa software developer Mohammed Momin Khawaja on seven counts related to an alleged plot to bomb targets in the UK. Khawaja was specifically...

An Indonesian court on Wednesday sentenced former Bank Indonesia (BI) chief Burhanuddin Abdullah to five years in prison on corruption charges for knowingly approving the misappropriation of $10 million of the central bank's funds. Governor of BI...

A criminal court sitting in Damascus Wednesday sentenced twelve dissidents accused of inciting sectarian strife to two and a half years in prison, according to the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria . The convicted were all...

An Australian state court Wednesday sentenced suspected terrorist Joseph "Jack" Thomas to nine months in prison for possessing a falsified passport. Justice Elizabeth Curtain of the Supreme Court of Victoria released Thomas...

The Russian State Duma , the country's lower house of parliament, on Wednesday unanimously approved military defense agreements signed with Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia last month. The...