Fifty-nine percent of Swiss voters opposed a proposal on Sunday that would prevent tax increases for corporations. Switzerland gives foreign firms lower taxes than domestic firms, which was criticized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...

Pakistani authorities have driven nearly 600,000 Afghan refugees back into Afghanistan since July 2016, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report Monday. HRW claims that among those being forced out of the country are 365,000...

The Islamabad High Court ruled Monday that all public celebrations of Valentine's day are prohibited with "immediate effect." The prohibition will affect government offices, private businesses and media sources. Print and electronic media have been...

The Swedish Court of Patent Appeals and the Market Court , an appellate court with exclusive jurisdiction over intellectual property cases, ordered an Internet service provider (ISP) to block access to the file-sharing site...

DuPont and Chemours Co settled approximately 3,550 personal injury claims for $671 million on Monday. The claims arose after a leak of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) , a chemical used to make Teflon with known...

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump, appearing in a joint press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, strongly condemned a North Korea ballistic missile test. North Korea tested a ballistic missile on Sunday which flew East...

The US rejected the appointment of former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to lead the UN Mission in Libya , despite official reports that all other 14 members of the UN Security Council approved the appointment. The...

On Saturday tech company Oracle appealed the decision on their lawsuit over Google's use of their software to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit . Oracle is alleging that Google's Android software violated...

Democratic Federal Election Commission (FEC) member Ellen Weintraub in a statement on Friday urged President Donald Trump to present evidence of his claims of extensive voter fraud in New Hampshire. Earlier this week Trump...

Ohio Governor John Kasich on Friday put on hold eight executions after a magistrate for the US District Court of the Southern District of Ohio on Wednesday refused to lift a stay ...