The Turkish Constitutional Court on Friday rejected petitions by opposition lawmakers seeking to lift immunity for members of Parliament. The Turkish parliament had passed two temporary amendments last month that would allow 138 deputies...

A three-judge panel upheld North Carolina's newly drawn congressional districts on Thursday. The challenge was brought after the state's General Assembly was ordered to redraw [JURIST report its congressional lines by the US Supreme Court, and the...

Guatemalan Attorney General Thelma Aldana on Thursday accused former president Otto Pérez Molina and ex-vice president Roxana Baldetti of taking nearly 130 million dollars in bribes beginning in 2011. Aldana and the International Commission against Impunity in...

The human rights situation in Ukraine remains troublesome following two years of conflict with Russia, according to a report released Friday by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights . Among the various...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) advocacy on Thursday filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama challenging three recent abortion restrictions in the state. The first restriction prevents the issuance...

BP stated Thursday that it has agreed to pay $175 million to shareholders in a securities class action suit against the company relating back to the 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Shareholders claimed...

Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi appeared before a secret government tribunal on Thursday, seeking to be released from his detention. Slahi, who was one of only two Guantanamo prisoners to endure a Rumsfeld approved "special interrogation...

The Gujarat High Court in Ahmedabad, India, convicted 24 individuals on Thursday of murder and other charges related to the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the state of Gujarat in which hundreds of Muslims were killed. The riots, which...

In his report issued Thursday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed shock at the increasing number of children recruited and killed in armed conflicts in several countries, including Afghanistan, Yemen, Iran and South Sudan. Ban asked...

The German Parliament approved a resolution Thursday recognizing the mass killings of ethnic Armenians by Turks during the Ottoman Empire a century ago as genocide, prompting an angry backlash and the immediate recall of...