Canadian indigenous people, including Inuits of Nunavut and the Chippewa, were granted an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada earlier this month, challenging the use of seismic testing to find natural gas under the Davis...

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff , on Sunday, stated that she will take legal action against the senator who accused her of corruption charges. Rousseff stated that she would sue Senator Delcidio Amaral for his defamatory statements...

Elections are being held in several African countries on Sunday, a day many people have called "Super Sunday." Citizens in Benin, Cape Verde, Congo, Niger, and Zanzibar are voting for President, while voters in Senegal are voting...

The US Supreme Court on Friday released the hearing list for the two-week, 11 hearing period beginning on Monday. The court will hear arguments for Wittman v. Personhuballah on Monday. The case concerns Virginia's redistricting...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) addressed the agreement between the European Union (EU) and Turkey on Friday, stating that it is important to ensure safeguards in executing the agreement and to respect...

A Northern Virginia man pleaded guilty Friday to attempting to provide the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) with material support and to attempting to join the terror organization. Joseph Hassan Farrokh...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and UN High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday expressed concern over increased violence and rights violations in Burundi, and called for an "inclusive political dialogue" to end the...

The French Senate on Thursday adopted a different version of a constitutional amendment that would deprive French citizenship or rights attached to it from dual nationals convicted of terrorism, essentially blocking the measure. For the amendment...

Environmental law firm ClientEarth filed a lawsuit on Friday against the government of the UK for its alleged failure to combat illegal air pollution. The law firm filed papers stating that the UK experiences 40,000 early deaths from...

The Georgia state legislature on Thursday approved a bill to allow faith-based establishments, including churches, schools and other organizations, to refuse service or employment to same-sex couples based on their religious beliefs. While groups such...