US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) extradited 75-year-old Inocente Orlando Montano, a former El Salvador colonel, to Spain to face charges for his alleged involvement in the 1989 murder of eight individuals that included...

Saudi Arabian authorities released Prince Miteb bin Abdullah from custody on Tuesday after reaching an estimated $1 billion settlement agreement concerning corruption allegations, according to a Saudi official . Miteb, "along with 200 other royals, ministers and business tycoons,"...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Carpenter v. United States , a case concerning law enforcement officers' authority to collect an individual's cell phone records to track his movements over an extended period of...

Bolivia's Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal (TCP) on Wednesday ruled that President Evo Morales may seek a fourth consecutive term as the country's president in the 2019 election. This decision comes almost two years after Morales campaigned...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Penal Forum on Wednesday that revealed human rights and humanitarian crises in Venezuela, as the government continues to arbitrarily arrest, prosecute, and, in some cases, torture critics of...

Bosnian Croat war crimes defendant Slobodan Praljak died Wednesday after drinking what he said was poison after judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) affirmed [judgment summary, PDF, Volume I Part 1,...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday rejected a challenge to a campaign finance law that set limits on federal donations to primary and general elections. The law placed a per-election donation...

A jury in Washington, DC, acquitted Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the ringleader of the 2012 Benghazi attacks, of murder on Tuesday, but convicted him on terrorism charges. After five days of deliberations, the jury found him guilty of one...

The European Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that EU workers are entitled to paid annual leave. The case was brought by a UK worker who had requested pay from his former employer for leave not taken from 1999-2012 in...

The Australian Senate on Wednesday passed a same-sex marriage bill, by a 43 to 12 vote. The Marriage Amendment amends the Marriage Act 1961 by redefining marriage by introducing non-gendered language permitting same-sex marriages. The decision...