The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced legal scholar and activist Xu Zhiyong on Sunday to four years in prison on the charge of 'gathering a crowd to disturb...

Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych promised concessions on Friday in response to the growing unrest in the country. The concessions would include a change in Yanukovych's cabinet members, amnesty for many imprisoned protesters who have not...

The Supreme Court of Croatia on Friday upheld a lower court's ruling that former Yugoslav secret service official Josip Perkovic could be extradited to Germany where he has been implicated in the 1983...

On Wednesday, Texas executed a Mexican national who was convicted of murdering a police officer in 1994. Controversy grew after the arrest because Edgar Arias Tamayo was not notified of his rights under Vienna Convention...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit alleging fraud against the background check firm, United States Investigations Services (USIS) . USIS was contracted by the DOJ to perform background checks on...

Prosecutors investigating allegations of a CIA secret prison in a Polish forest announced on Friday that they will be looking further into recent developments surrounding the so-called "black site." According to the Washington Post, two senior CIA officials were...

The appeals chamber for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday upheld the criminal convictions of four Serbian senior officials stemming from the Bosnian Civil War , while reducing...

A court in Pakistan on Thursday sentenced 65-year old Mohammed Asghar to death for blasphemy, convicting him of writing letters claiming to be a prophet. Asghar was convicted under Section 295-C of the Pakistani Penal Code...

The Iraq Ministry of Justice announced on Thursday the execution by hanging of 11 Iraqi prisoners convicted of terrorist attacks against the Iraqi people. These executions come mere days after the country's execution of 26...

An Oklahoma state court judge on Thursday ruled the state's emergency contraception law unconstitutional. The law requires women younger than 17 to obtain a prescription and show photo ID in order to receive Plan...