A three-year probe into abuse of military detainees in Iraq was finalized Thursday with the release of a report that found numerous British soldiers were involved in specific episodes of abuse of Iraqi citizens. The independent inquiry was led...
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on Tuesday rejected as unfounded three constitutional complaints against German and European legal instruments and other measures in connection with both the European Monetary Union rescue package and the financial aid...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the 2010 denial of petition for a writ of habeas corpus for Guantanamo detainee Shawali...
The trial of former French president Jacques Chirac opened in his absence on Monday after Judge Dominique Pauthe of the 11th Criminal Court of Paris agreed to continue the proceedings without him. Chirac and...
Violence broke out in the Egyptian court where the corruption and murder trial of former president Hosni Mubarak resumed on Monday for a third session. As the first witness for the prosecution began...
A public employees union has filed a lawsuit in Indiana state court challenging a state law disallowing future recognition of public employee collective bargaining rights. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 62 , which...
Liberia's National Election Commission (NEC) on Wednesday announced that all four proposed amendments to the Republic's constitution were voted down in last week's national referendum. One defeated proposal was to move back the national election...
An Idaho woman has filed suit seeking to prevent prosecution of other women under the state's standing abortion laws. Mother of three Jennie Linn McCormack was prosecuted earlier this year under a 1972 state...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to block the proposed $39 billion acquisition of cellular carrier T-Mobile USA by telecom giant AT&T . The agency filed suit ...
China's National People's Congress (NPC) on Friday adopted an interpretation of certain articles of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region , removing lawsuits against sovereign nations from the jurisdiction of Hong...