Mohamedou Ould Slahi, author of the 2015 Guantanamo Diary memoir, was released from Guantanamo Bay on Monday after 14 years of imprisonment. He was transferred back to his native Mauritania, bringing Guantanamo Bay's population down to 60...

UK government lawyers argued in court on Monday that British Prime Minister Theresa May has the right to remove the UK from the EU. The case before the High Court of the UK centers on the the...

The Egyptian Parliament on Monday voted to enact new legislation aimed at combating the growing number of human traffickers along its coast. Smugglers and their middlemen will now face prison terms or...

The US Supreme Court denied certiorari . The main issue in the case was whether a defendant's counsel can present one mitigating factor at the sentencing...

Australia is using the island of Nauru as an "open-air prison," putting refugees and asylum seekers through an abusive processing system as a means to prevent immigration, according to a report released by Amnesty International (AI) ...

Less than 24-hours after canceling a hearing on the vote-by-mail ballots, District Judge Mark Walker for the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida issued an order requiring Florida to provide a method for...

A former Chinese senior energy official who had hoarded 200 million yuan ($29.99 million) has been given a suspended death sentence after being convicted of corruption. Wei Pengyuan, who had been the deputy director of the coal department at the...

The Bahrain Court of Cassation on Monday overturned the sentence of Shiite opposition leader Ali Salman , who had been convicted for inciting hatred and encouraging violent regime change and sentenced to multiple years imprisonment ....

The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah , issued a decree to dissolve the parliament on Sunday. The decision was made due to "mounting security challenges as well as volatile regional developments." As of...

US District Court for the Northern District of Florida , issued an order on Saturday cancelling a hearing on a lawsuit regarding vote-by-mail ballots. Judge Mark Walker was highly critical of Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner...