Search Results for: 2015-03-11

Russia will block LinkedIn within the country after a court ruling Thursday. The local court found that the company had breached the country's data protection rules. This comes during a time of increased tension...

The UK Court of Appeal on Thursday approved the National Health Services (NHS) to fund research into the HIV drug PReP. The ruling has established that NHS England has the ability, but not...

The Ivory Coast Constitutional Council on Friday affirmed the results of a referendum backing a new constitution, rejecting requests from several political parties, including that of former president Laurent Gbagbo , who boycotted the vote that the referendum be...

The US Supreme Court issued an order on Thursday granting a last-minute stay of execution just as state officials in Alabama were preparing to execute Thomas Douglas Arthur by lethal injection. The application for the stay was...

Popular services like Snapchat and Skype are falling short on privacy protections for their users , Amnesty International (AI) said in a new report . The report, released Friday, ranked the 11 companies that provide the...

A former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo was found guilty of bribing witnesses in his International Criminal Court (ICC) trial for war crimes. On Wednesday The Hague-based court found Jean-Pierre Bemba...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard argument in the cases of Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple, Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado and Manrique v. United States . In Samsung Electronics, Samsung Corporation challenged [transcript,...

Vice President Gaston Sindimwo of Burundi on Thursday announced the country's decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) , stating that his government is "ready to face the consequences." This decision comes in the wake of the...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Bravo-Fernandez v. United States . The court is being asked to decide whether an unconstitutional, vacated conviction can "cancel" out the preclusive effect of...

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday affirmed an Indiana district court ruling that blocked Indiana's effort to prevent resettlement of Syrian refugee families in the state. The lawsuit was...