Former Egyptian prime minister Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on Sunday to face retrial on complicity charges in the killing of over 100 protesters during the country's 2011 uprising. Mubarak was recently released from prison ...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday condemned the escalating violence in Syria, insisting that any use of chemical weapons would constitute a crime against humanity with "serious results for the perpetrator." Ban called for an...
Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the High Court of Bolochistan on Saturday dismissed a request to move former president Pervez Musharraf's trial over the killing of Baloch leader Akbar Bugti to...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez on Friday urged the US government to ban the use of prolonged or indefinite solitary confinement. In several California prisons, hunger strikes began on July 8,...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled on Friday that Samsung and Apple do not have to publicly disclose financial details submitted during the patent litigation between the two...
A jury of six military personnel on Friday ruled Staff Sergeant Robert Bales would receive life in prison without parole for killing 16 Afghan civilians. The panel deliberated for less than two hours [Reuters...
Former Egyptian prime minister Hosni Mubarak was moved from prison to house arrest on a military hospital on Thursday. Mubarak's release comes amid widespread protests led by the Muslim Brotherhood ...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday condemned the reported chemical weapon attacks that killed hundreds in the Ghouta region of Damascus as a "serious escalation" in the fight between Syria's government...
Paraguay's Congress on Thursday officially granted President Horatio Cartes the power to order military interventions without prior legislative approval. The grant of power came after five security guards were were killed by...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday against an Arizona law that disqualified health providers which perform abortions, such as Planned Parenthood , from receiving public funds....