Kyrgyzstan's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the rejection of a petition to put opposition leader Omurbek Tekebaev on the ballot for the October presidential election. Tekebaev was convicted earlier this month for accepting...
Forces fighting Islamic State (IS) insurgents to regain lost territory in Syria must not sacrifice lives of civilians still trapped in the areas, UN High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein stated ...
Two human rights experts with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a statement Wednesday detailing their concern over websites, including many news sites, that have been shutdown or blocked by...
A Pakistan anti-terrorism court declared former president and army general Pervez Musharraf a fugitive from the law on Thursday concerning the assassination of former prime minister, and first female leader in the Muslim world, Benazir Bhutto...
A judge in Brazil issued a ruling Wednesday that temporarily blocks an executive order from President Michel Temer that would have opened large sections of the Amazon forest...
Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly on Tuesday approved a decree rejecting the US economic sanctions and called for treason investigations into political actors for supporting the sanctions. The decree was passed unanimously [BBC report by the ANC....
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said Wednesday that US President Donald Trump's constant criticism of journalists constitutes an attack on the freedom of the press. "It's really quite amazing when you think that...
A US grand jury indicted 19 people , including 15 Turkish security officials, on Tuesday for attacking protesters during a visit to the White House by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in May. The protesters gathered...
The Guatemalan Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended President Jimmy Morales' order to deport the head of a UN anti-corruption commission from the country. The order came from the president two days after Ivan Velasquez, the Colombian prosecutor who...
US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on Tuesday released a statement declaring that a panel will be established to determine how to implement President Donald Trump's "Military and Service by Transgender Individuals" Presidential Memorandum and...