Mali signed an agreement Friday with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to become the first African country to agree to enforce the ICC's sentences of imprisonment. Article 103 of the Rome Statute , which governs...
US oil company Chevron Corp announced Friday that it has filed an appeal with the National Court of Justice in Ecuador asking it to reconsider the decision rendered by an Ecuadorian judge [press...
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled Friday that a policy in the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, that bans registered sex offenders from entering the city's public libraries is unconstitutional. The...
The UN Special Rapporteur on North Korean Human Rights Marzuki Darusman called Friday on the new leadership of North Korea (DPRK) to improve human rights concerns in their country. The statement comes as...
Yemeni officials on Thursday amended a law that would have given complete immunity to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and all of his associates, limiting it to politically motivated crimes for Saleh's aides....
Haitian Judge Ezekiel Vaval convicted eight police officers on Thursday for their participation in the shooting and killing of at least 10 prisoners after the January 2010 earthquake . The judge also found that six other police...
The US Supreme Court ruled Friday rejected Texas's interim redistricting maps. The emergency appeal challenged an interim map drawn up by the US District Court for the Western District of Texas while a...
The Ingolstadt Prosecutor's Office filed a motion on Thursday to jail Klaas Faber, a Dutch native who fled to Germany after being convicted in the Netherlands in 1947 of Nazi war crimes. He is one...
US officials on Wednesday announced charges against seven individuals purportedly involved in a $62 million insider trading scheme. The individuals, who worked for five different investment institutions, are accused of earning illegal profits on the basis of insider...
The Ethiopian Federal High Court on Thursday convicted three Ethiopian journalists, a political opposition leader and a politician's assistant for conspiring to commit acts of terrorism in violation of the country's Anti-Terrorism Proclamation of 2009...