UN human rights experts on Friday urged the international community to conduct an independent and impartial investigation into the killings by Israeli security forces of at least 16 Palestinian protesters near the Gaza fence. Palestinian protestors assembled in...

A Brazilian federal judge on Thursday issued a warrant for former president Luiz Inacio da Silva's arrest. Judge Sergio Moro issued the arrest warrant several hours after the Supreme Federal Court's denial ...

The Seoul Central District Court on Friday sentenced former South Korean president Park Geun-hye to 24 years in prison. Park was removed from office in March 2017 by the country's Constitutional Court . In an...

China filed a complaint against the US with the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Thursday over US tariffs against Chinese goods. The complaint is a request for consultation , which is the first step in a...

Egypt's Court of Cassation on Thursday ordered a retrial for 16 out of 43 defendants who were charged with receiving illegal foreign funds without a license "for restricted activities against state policy." The defendants had received...

After late-night deliberations, the Supreme Court of Brazil on Thursday allowed an arrest warrant for former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to go forward . Lula was convicted in July of corruption...

Judge Carmen Lamela of Spain's National Court on Wednesday charged the former Catalan chief of police, Josep Lluís Trapero, with sedition for his role in the 2017 independence...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday rejected a complaint from a German national concerning his 2015 prosecution and conviction in a Munich court for the posting of a picture in his blog post of...

Exiled Venezuelan supreme court justices met in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday to conduct a preliminary hearing on corruption allegations against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro brought by the country's former top prosecutor, Attorney General Luisa Ortega. The self-proclaimed...

New Zealand's parliament on Tuesday approved legislation to allow people who were previously convicted of homosexual offenses to have their criminal records wiped. The bill "seeks to reduce prejudice, stigma, and all other negative effects" that would come from a...