The Iraq Parliament approved a law "Forbidding the import, manufacture and sale of all kinds of alcohol drinks." Until this time, alcohol has been made readily available in shops, bars, restaurant and hotels in Baghdad and in some...

Abu Wa'el Dhiab, a Syrian former Guantanamo Bay detainee, on Saturday ended his 68-day hunger strike. Dhiab was among a number of former detainees who were resettled in Uruguay in an effort to close down the detention center...

Airbnb filed suit against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and New York City Mayor Mayor Bill de Blasio in federal court on Friday challenging Senate Bill S6340A, signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo hours earlier, which...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that former detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison may continue their torture lawsuit against civilian military contractors. Four former prisoners allege that they...

UN experts investigating the October 8 attack on a packed funeral hall in the Yemeni capital, which is currently under rebel control, accused the Saudi coalition Thursday of violating international humanitarian law. According to the experts' report, "the...

A federal judge on Friday ordered a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor accused of stealing classified government documents to remain in custody while awaiting trial. The judge said of the former NSA agent, Harold Martin...

U.S. District Judge J. Clay Fuller on Thursday ruled that the state of Georgia does not have to reveal information about its one-drug execution method. In a suit brought by two death row inmates challenging...

UN civil rights expert Alfred de Zayas on Friday called on incoming secretary-general Antonio Guterres to host an international conference on phasing out offshore havens to force billionaires and "kleptocrats" to...

A Mexican judge on Thursday rejected five appeals intended to prevent the extradition of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán to the US for criminal charges. A previous judge had suspended Guzmán's extradition in May, but the...

South Africa announced on Friday that the country will officially withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The government originally expressed such intentions last year when South Africa refused to act on the ICC's arrest...