The Illinois General Assembly passed a bill on Tuesday that would reform the state's pension plan to lower future benefits for current state employees. The legislature amended the pension plan in an effort to...
US prosecutors unsealed on Thursday charges it has filed against 49 current and former Russian diplomats and their family members for allegedly conspiring to commit health care fraud . The complaint, which was...
A team of Dutch and Swedish researchers released a report on Wednesday which concluded that senior military officers in Eritrea are kidnapping Eritrean children and smuggling them into Sudan. The report, entitled "The Human Trafficking Cycle:...
On Thursday the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) rejected a request by prosecutors to re-arrest nine individuals convicted of war crimes. The court ruled that since Bosnian law does not contain provisions for the...
The Italian Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled that portions of the country's electoral law breach its constitution . This decision overturns both a measure in the law that prevents...
The UN Security Council (UNSC) voted unanimously on Thursday to authorize deployment of peacekeepers to the Central African Republic (CAR) following escalating violence in the nation's capital Bangui. Through Security Council Resolution 2127 , the UNSC approved...
The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Monday officially handed over its premises to the Sierra Leone government in its final act of its 11-year existence. The court was created in 2002 by the UN and...
Two men who served as revolutionary symbols during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution were referred to trial on Thursday for charges of participating in an illegal protest and allegedly assaulting policemen. The first hearing for the two men,...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Thursday announced that it transferred two prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to the government of their native Algeria. Djamel Saiid Ali Ameziane and Bensayah Belkecem were transferred...
A group of UN human rights experts on Tuesday urged the Kenyan government to reject legislation that would impose severe regulations and limitations upon non-governmental organizations (NGOs). As an amendment to Kenya's Public Benefit Organization Act of...