Trustees of Haji Ali Dargah , a mosque in Mumbai, India, told the country's Supreme Court on Monday that they will begin to allow women to enter the inner sanctum of the mausoleum. The court permitted [Indian Express...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized South Africa Monday for its decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The rights group called the move a blow to the country's post-apartheid reconstruction and the...

The Venezuelan National Assembly ] declared on Sunday that there is a breakdown of constitutional order and that the government had staged a coup by blocking an attempt to remove President Nicolás Maduro...

The Iraq Parliament approved a law "Forbidding the import, manufacture and sale of all kinds of alcohol drinks." Until this time, alcohol has been made readily available in shops, bars, restaurant and hotels in Baghdad and in some...

Abu Wa'el Dhiab, a Syrian former Guantanamo Bay detainee, on Saturday ended his 68-day hunger strike. Dhiab was among a number of former detainees who were resettled in Uruguay in an effort to close down the detention center...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that former detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison may continue their torture lawsuit against civilian military contractors. Four former prisoners allege that they...

UN experts investigating the October 8 attack on a packed funeral hall in the Yemeni capital, which is currently under rebel control, accused the Saudi coalition Thursday of violating international humanitarian law. According to the experts' report, "the...

UN civil rights expert Alfred de Zayas on Friday called on incoming secretary-general Antonio Guterres to host an international conference on phasing out offshore havens to force billionaires and "kleptocrats" to...

A Mexican judge on Thursday rejected five appeals intended to prevent the extradition of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán to the US for criminal charges. A previous judge had suspended Guzmán's extradition in May, but the...

South Africa announced on Friday that the country will officially withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The government originally expressed such intentions last year when South Africa refused to act on the ICC's arrest...