The United Nations and the Arab League on Sunday each expressed concern over the recent increased violence in Syria . UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos expressed particular...
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The Pennsylvania's Public Utility Commission and the Department of Environmental Protection filed an appeal on Friday challenging this week's Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruling that Pennsylvania's new oil and gas law [Act 13...
The US District Court for the Southern District of New York granted an emergency order Friday freezing the assets of traders operating in Hong Kong and Singapore. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) [official website; press...
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Friday filed a motion asking the US District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma to lift a stay on the state's challenge to the...
Pakistan Ambassador to the US Sherry Rehman on Friday called on the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to stop using drone strikes in a video conference debate with White House War Adviser Douglas...
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday ordered a stay of execution for convicted killer Marcus Druery who had been scheduled for execution on August 1st. Druery has been diagnosed as schizophrenic by...
After four weeks of international negotiations, the deadline to approve an agreement at the UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty passed on Friday without consensus. The proposed regulations, entitled the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), would...
Google called Friday for the dismissal of a class action lawsuit accusing the company of infringing upon authors' copyrighted works when it scanned books for its digital library. In a filing with the US...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara announced Friday that four men responsible for killing seven UN officials during an armed conflict near the border town of Tai were arrested in Liberia [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news...
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) on Wednesday ruled that Ecuador violated the rights of the Sarayaku Indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon when the state allowed the Argentine oil company CGC to encroach...
