The Iraqi government is unlawfully detaining and torturing thousands of detainees, according to a Monday report from Amnesty International (AI) . The report, "New Order, Same Abuses: Unlawful Detention in Iraq" estimates that more...
Constitutional amendments previously annulled by the Constitutional Court of Turkey were approved by a 58 percent popular vote Sunday, marking a major victory for the ruling Justice and...
An Icelandic parliamentary commission on Saturday recommended that the country's former prime minister and three other former governmental ministers be tried for negligence for their roles in the country's 2008 financial crisis. The nine-member Special Investigation Committee (SIC) published...
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that a second-hand software merchant may not invoke the first sale doctrine as a defense in...
Serbia's Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor on Saturday announced charges against nine individuals for their suspected involvement in the 1998-1999 Kosovo war . The charges include murder, rape, looting, destruction...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday ordered former Kosovo Albanian military leader Ramush Haradinaj to remain in custody while awaiting a new trial. The...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday upheld a jury verdict clearing Chevron of wrongdoing in the 1998 deaths of two protesters occupying a Nigerian oil platform operated by...
Two Guinea election officials were convicted Friday of election fraud and sentenced to a year in jail for irregularities with June's presidential primary election. The convictions of Ben Sekou Sylla, president of the election commission, and his top aide,...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday invalidated a municipal ban on tattoo parlors by Hermosa Beach, California, calling it a violation of the First Amendment. The controversy initially arose when...
French judges may drop charges against two police officers who chased three teen boys into a power substation where two of the teens died after being electrocuted, according to Friday reports . The two officers were charged in...