Belarusian authorities Tuesday granted jailed opposition politician Alexander Kozulin a three-day release from prison to attend the funeral of his wife, who died on Saturday. Kozulin was sentenced to over five years in prison in...

Agents with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urged EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson to approve California's request for a waiver that would have allowed it to impose stricter greenhouse gas emissions standards on cars...

Leaders of 34 international bar associations and law societies called for the "immediate closure" of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in a letter released Monday. The letter, addressed to US President George W. Bush and...

Nigeria's Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal on Tuesday upheld the results of last year's disputed presidential elections , saying that opposition groups failed to present sufficient evidence to support their fraud allegations . European Union and NGO observers...

The European Court of Justice on Tuesday ruled that an employee's "dismissal essentially based on the fact that a woman is at an advanced stage of in vitro fertilisation treatment is contrary to...

Guatemala on Monday announced plans to declassify documents describing human rights abuses committed by its military during the country's 1960-1996 civil war . Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has created a panel...

The Israeli Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a controversial plea agreement for former Israeli President Moshe Katsav , in which Katsav was permitted to plead guilty to lesser sex charges in exchange...

A Malaysian court Tuesday rejected a bid to free five prominent members of the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) , ruling that they were lawfully detained under Malaysia's controversial Internal Security Act (ISA) , which permits the...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday challenging a Tennessee state law that requires convicted felons to pay "all outstanding legal financial obligations" before their voting rights are restored....

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that testimony from workers who suffered job bias but were not parties to a federal age discrimination case "is neither per se admissible nor per se inadmissible" under...