A Ukrainian official said Tuesday that the nation plans to sue Russia in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on claims of financing terrorism. The claims surround the Russian annexation of Donbas and Crimea. Pavlo Petrenko, the Justice...

The Supreme Court of India upheld a temporary ban on diesel vehicles in New Delhi on Tuesday in an effort to reduce air pollution. Diesel vehicles will be forced to take alternative routes rather than simply traveling through the city....

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday in favor of a man convicted of jaywalking during a 2012 protest in Moscow. Yevgeniy Frumkin was attending a demonstration in Bolotnaya Square to challenge the reelection of...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Wednesday said that the Thai government should fully investigate the whereabouts of at least 82 people listed as disappeared, and criminalize forced disappearance through legislation....

A sharia high court in Nigeria on Wednesday sentenced cleric Abdulaziz Dauda and nine others to death by hanging for committing blasphemy against the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. The prosecution claimed that Duada, a preacher also known as Abdul...

The Obama administration on Monday called on the US Supreme to strike down a recently passed Texas abortion law which the administration argues will harm women's health. According to US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli , the law...

A court in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, on Wednesday agreed to hear China's first legal challenge over a refusal to issue same-sex marriage applications. A 26-year-old man filed a case against a civil affairs bureau...

The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state legislature does have the power to use advisory ballot measures. The decision will allow lawmakers to place a nonbinding question on ballots to ask voters whether they...

The high court of Bangladesh on Monday upheld the death sentence of Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes committed in the country's war for independence against Pakistan in 1971. Nizami's conviction was upheld on charges of genocide,...

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced executive actions on gun control . The plan would require those in the business of selling firearms, including those selling firearms at gun shows, to be licensed...