The Afghan journalism student who was sentenced to death in January for distributing papers questioning gender roles under Islamic practice told the Independent on Sunday that he was not afforded a lawyer to represent him...
The Cuban National Assembly on Sunday, by a unanimous show of hands, officially voted Raul Castro , 76, to the position of president, and also chose Jose Ramon Machado Ventura , 76, as the first vice president....
Chief Justice Ronald George of the California Supreme Court told the state's Judiciary Council on Friday that the Supreme Court is withdrawing a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at expediting death penalty appeals by allowing the...
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has ordered the country's 70 Internet service providers to block access to popular video-sharing website YouTube because of "blasphemous content, videos and documents" posted on the site, a government official...
The UK Home Office said Saturday that the government has no plans to create a compulsory DNA database for British citizens, citing ethical and information security concerns. The country's more limited existing National DNA Database [Home Office...
Protests broke out in two Indonesian cities Saturday over the reprinting of a cartoon depiction of the Muslim prophet Muhammad by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Poste . Protesters in the world's most populous Muslim country burned Danish...
Serbia's chief prosecutor Slobodan Radovanovic said Saturday that Serbia is actively searching for the rioters that set fire to the US Embassy in Belgrade last week over US support of independence for Kosovo . Serbian...
Bosnian Serb lawmakers have backed a resolution calling Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia illegal and threatening to call a referendum on their own possible separation from the amalgamated state of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH). The resolution, passed...
British troops may have tortured and executed up to 20 Iraqi civilians after a 2004 clash between insurgents and a British convoy in Majar al Kabir , according to evidence released Friday by the lawyers of five Iraqi...
An Iranian official with the country's Supreme National Security Council said Saturday that a potential UN Security Council resolution imposing new sanctions on Iran in connection with its nuclear activities would be "legally and technically baseless," according...