Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has again said that he plans to revise the country's constitution to allow the country to better defend itself and to assist in international security efforts. In an interview...

Serbian war crimes suspect and former nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj , was removed from a court hearing at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Wednesday after he disrupted proceedings on...

A federal jury Monday returned a $48 million verdict against Amerigroup and its Illinois affiliate for discriminating against pregnant women by intentionally not reaching out to them while marketing its insurance services in Illinois. The lawsuit was...

Advocacy groups filed a second lawsuit Monday against the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania in an attempt to block the community's anti-immigration laws that will make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to reside or work in the...

Nicaraguan lawmakers voted Thursday to prohibit abortions for any reason in the country, including procedures to save the life of a pregnant woman. The measure eliminates a long-standing medical necessity exception to the country's anti-abortion laws....

The US Defense Department said Wednesday that it is considering plans to increase the number of courtrooms at the US prison facility in Guantanamo Bay in order to begin trying suspected terrorists, a proposal that could...

Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has urged Serbians to vote in favor of the country's new constitution in this weekend's referendum, saying a rejection of the charter would have "grave and unforeseeable" consequences...

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that same-sex couples in the state must be afforded the same rights as heterosexual couples, and said that the state legislature must decide whether New Jersey will...

Bosnia's ambassador to the United Nations wants the Swedish government to free Biljana Plavsic from the Hinseberg prison for women, where she has been serving an 11-year sentence as the only woman convicted of...

A Chinese court has sentenced a pro-democracy leader to three years in prison for criticizing the communist government in Internet posts, according to the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy Wednesday. Li Jianping participated...