Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday convened a meeting of all political parties in order to gather national support for a plan to strengthen security in the country after terrorist attacks in country's financial capital of...
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) has filed a federal civil rights complaint with the US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Office of Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity (FHEO) ...
Former Argentine President Carlos Menem was formally charged Friday with illegally trafficking arms to Croatia and Ecuador, contrary to a 1991 UN embargo against Croatia and a 1995 Organization of American States (OAS) ban on selling...
The Namibia-based Southern African Development Community Tribunal on Friday ruled that 78 white Zimbabwe farmers whose land was seized by the Zimbabwe government under its farm redistribution program were owed compensation and that the seizures...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday urged accountability for abuses as a prerequisite to quelling six years of fighting and restoring peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [JURIST news...
The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon could begin prosecuting suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on March 1, 2009 with its prosecutor's scheduled arrival at The Hague, according...
Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat demoted Police Chief Gen. Patcharawat Wongsuwan to an inactive position within the Prime Minister's office, according to media reports Friday. Patcharawat's removal comes a day after the Prime Minister declared...
The European Commission (EC) Thursday called on Germany to modify its Volkswagen anti-takeover law within two months or else face referral of the matter to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) . The law,...
Moscow Military District Court judge Yevgeny Zubov Wednesday refused to recuse himself from the trial of three men accused of involvement in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya . The Russian Prosecutor Generals Office...
The Mexican Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would amend the General Law of Health to allow terminally ill patients to refuse medical treatment. The bill...