A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama issued an order on Wednesday prohibiting Alabama Governor Robert Bentley from terminating the provider agreement between Medicaid and Planned Parenthood...

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea Marzuki Darusman expressed deep concerns Wednesday regarding human rights violations in the country. His investigation revealed that workers from North Korea are being systematically...

A rise in defense spending and a lack of oversight in Middle Eastern and North African governments puts these nations in a high risk for defense corruption, according to a report released Thursday by the Transparency International...

Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz was released from detention and sent back to his home country of Mauritania, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced on Thursday. The Guantanamo Review Task Force, created in...

Serbia has yet to completely investigate and adequately prosecute war crimes that occurred in the 1990s conflict, according to a report released Tuesday by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) . The...

Amnesty International (AI) said Wednesday that Australia's maritime border control agents have engaged in significant criminal activity, bribery and abusive treatment of women, men and children who are seeking asylum. A new report titled By Hook or...

Judge Juan Pablo Gonzalez of Spain's National Court charged five suspected leaders of the Basque separatist movement Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) Tuesday with crimes against humanity for their participation in the 2004 attacks that left...

Amnesty International (AI) has called Tuesday for an independent investigation into possible war crimes surrounding the destruction of a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in Yemen. According to local sources, the Saudi-Arabia led...

The USSenate on Tuesday passed legislation aimed at improving cyber-security defenses in the US. The Cybersecurity Sharing Information Act of 2015 encourages private entities "to monitor, and operate defensive measures," which will allow them "to detect,...

The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday passed a handgun storage law requiring owners to either lock guns away or have the trigger disabled when not in reach. The law is "aimed at curbing...