The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil on Friday denied President Dilma Rousseff's injunction request to suspend an upcoming lower house vote regarding her looming impeachment. A lower house committee voted earlier...

The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied creditors seeking to keep in place court-ordered protections following Argentina's 2001 default of $100 billion in bonds. Investors who had paid full price for their...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein , on Thursday urged Iran to stop executions over drug offenses pending the debate of a law that would remove the mandatory death penalty as punishment...

Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiangon announced Wednesday that his license to practice law was revoked by the judicial bureau. The bureau allegedly disbarred Pu from practicing law because of a December criminal conviction associated with...

A French court on Wednesday ruled to extradite Radomir Susnjar, who is suspected to have committed war crimes during Balkan conflict of the 1990s, to Sarajevo where he will face charges concerning his involvement. Susnjar, who was arrested in...

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks on Wednesday called on Turkey to focus on human rights in the wake of their anti-terrorism security measures. The remarks were made at the end of...

A 49-year old Liberian national and resident of East Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, Mohammed Jabbateh, was indicted in Philadelphia on Wednesday on two counts of immigration fraud and two counts of perjury for failing to disclose his crimes...

Panamanian prosecutors for organized crime raided the Panamanian office of international law firm Mossack Fonseca on Tuesday, seeking evidence of money laundering and financing terrorism in relation to the recent Panama Papers scandal. Mossack Fonseca has...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern on Wednesday over reports coming out of the Republic of Congo regarding an apparent Government security operation in an area...

A judge in Changsha, China, on Wednesday refused to allow a same-sex couple to register as married. The two men attempted to register their marriage last June. After being denied, the couple filed the lawsuit in December....