Lithuania began war crime trials for 65 former Soviet military officials on Wednesday. The officials are accused of committing crimes against humanity during the 1991 crackdown by the Soviet Union during Lithuania's independence movement. The action resulted in...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana (ACLU) and the Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services Commission (IPAS) reached a settlement agreement on Wednesday with the Department of Corrections over the treatment of...

Representatives from 29 states on Tuesday asked the US Supreme Court to block the he implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP) . The plan seeks to eliminate the amount of carbon...

French lawmakers on Wednesday approved a bill that will allow physicians to keep terminally ill patients sedated until death, opting not to extend the bill to cover physician-assisted suicide. Under the new law, patients will be...

Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin on Wednesday released an advisory opinion declaring that daily fantasy sports websites in which players pay to participate are considered gambling and are therefore illegal in the state. Chin noted...

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges of crimes against humanity at the start of his trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) . Gbagbo faces four charges...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday stressed the importance of education to prevent new genocides, speaking at an event acknowledging the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. The Secretary-General...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said Tuesday that Burundian authorities failed to provide entry to independent rights experts dispatched by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate rights violations in...

Judges for the International Criminal Court (ICC) have approved an investigation into the 2008 Georgia/Russia conflict. Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda commented that the delay in ICC proceedings was prompted by independent investigations conducted by the...

French Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira resigned Wednesday after expressing disagreement with the President Francois Hollande's proposal to strip convicted terrorists of their French citizenship. The plan, proposed as a revision to the French constitution ,...