The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report Saturday describing human rights abuses in Kunduz, Afghanistan, during a temporary occupation by the Taliban. The report...
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced national security officers Omar Mahmoud and Mohamed el-Anwar for beating lawyer Karim Hamdi to death in Cairo last February. The court's decision is part of a series of cases seeking to end police...
US President Barack Obama on Saturday applauded the new climate change agreement reached Friday at the Paris summit. The agreement was reached during the twenty-first annual conference of parties, known as COP21 . He stated...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Friday in four cases. In Birchfield, Danny v. North Dakota , consolidated with Bernard, William R. v. Minnesota and Beylund, Steve M. v. North Dakota, the court will...
An appellate court judge granted a temporary stay to daily sports fantasy sites DraftKings and FanDuel hours after a New York judge on Friday granted a temporary injunction demanding the fantasy sports companies cease operations in that state....
Russia's Investigative Committee on Friday, charged former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky with multiple murders and attempted murders during the 1990s according to the Interfax agency. Khodorkovsky is accused of...
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked lower court ruling allowing both partners in same-sex couples to be listed as the "birth parents" on birth certificates of their children. The court and state health department will,...
Interpol agents on Thursday announced the arrest of Rwandan genocide suspect, Ladislas Ntaganzwa, who had a USD $5 million bounty . Ntaganzwa, who was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official...
US President Barack Obama on Thursday signed the Every Student Succeeds Act into law. The new measures hand much of the power over education success monitoring back to the states and allow them to make the...
The European Commission on Thursday initiated an infringement action against Hungary's new asylum law and the country's response to the refugee situation. Hungary recently erected a fence along its border to keep migrants from crossing...