The Federal Police of Brazil on Wednesday arrested former House speaker Eduardo Cunha for his alleged participation in an embezzlement scheme. Cunha, who is most known for leading the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff [BBC...

UN High Commissioner for of Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein on Friday expressed outrage over the human rights crisis in Syria, stating that, "he violations and abuses suffered by people across the country, including the siege...

Judge Daniel P. Jordan III of the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (Northern Division) on Thursday permanently enjoined the state of Mississippi from "enforcing, threatening to enforce, or otherwise applying the provisions...

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a conspiracy conviction of the former personal assistant to Osama bin Laden. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that a military...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied an emergency motion on Wednesday from multiple counties in North Carolina to extend the hours of early voting. The motion ...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered voter registration in Virginia to be reopened through midnight Friday, October 21. US District Judge Claude Hilton for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia made this...

The UN Independent Expert on minority issues, Rita Izsák-Ndiaye , on Thursday urged the Sri Lankan government to better protect minorities following the civil war. Izsák-Ndiaye advised that for true change to take place a concerted...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye said Thursday that governments are "wielding the tools of censorship" and cautioned that "the freedom...

The Spanish Constitutional Court on Thursday overturned the bullfighting ban in Catalonia. The court reasoned that governmental intrusion into state ordered and sponsored entertainment undermines individual states' rights to maintain common cultural heritage—bullfighting...

The Gujarat High Court on Thursday acquitted 14 of the 31 individuals convicted of burning more than 30 people to death in the 2002 post-Godhra Sardarpura massacre, while maintaining the sentences of the rest. The High...