A Bahraini court on Tuesday sentenced prominent Shiite leader Sheikh Ali Salman to four years in prison for insulting the Interior Ministry , inciting others to break the law, and inciting hatred against naturalized Sunnis. Salman...
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Bahrain court sentences Shiite opposition leader to 4 years in prison
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European Court of Justice rules in favor of central bank bond buying program
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UN panel renews call for equal education rights for women
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FDA announces plans to ban artificial trans fat
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Federal judge finds against Arpaio in civil rights pre-trial motion
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New York senate approves expedited medical marijuana bill
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Bangladesh high court upholds death sentence for Islamist party leader
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Egypt court upholds ex-president Morsi’s death sentence
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UK PM calls for new rights bill on 800th anniversary of Magna Carta
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Belgium Privacy Commission sues Facebook for user tracking
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The European Court of Justice handed down a ruling Tuesday that strengthened the role of the European Central Bank (ECB) in mediating financial markets. The Court upheld the ECB's 2012 offer to purchase the...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday renewed calls for womens and girls to be given equal access to education. A discussion panel held by OHCHR said equal educational...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday that food manufacturers will be given three years to remove all partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), the main ingredient in artificial trans fat, saying they are no...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona issued a pre-trial order Monday accepting another court's finding of racial profiling by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio . Hearing a lawsuit brought by...
The New York Senate on Monday passed a medical marijuana bill that would expedite access to marijuana for emergency medical purposes. The bill, passed by a Republican-led Senate in a 50-12 vote, would allow...
The Supreme Court of Bangladesh on Tuesday upheld the death sentence of Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for war crimes committed during the 1971 War of Liberation against Pakistan. Mojaheed, the Secretary-General of Jamaat-e-Islami Party (JI)...
An Egyptian court upheld the death sentence of deposed president Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday after consulting the grand Mufti, Egypt's highest religious figure and a government advisor on Islamic law. The death sentence was...
UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday renewed his call for the country to repeal the Human Rights Act and institute its own bill of rights in an article for the Sun newspaper . Cameron...
The Belgian Privacy Commission announced Monday that it is suing Facebook for alleged violations of Belgian and European privacy laws . In May, the commission issued Facebook a set of recommendations urging the...
