UN Officials and the UN Security Council on Monday called for an end to fighting in the Southern Kordofan area of Sudan . Ivan Simonovic, Assistant Secretary-General for UN Office of the High Commissioner...

A Ukraine court on Monday dismissed Serhiy Vlasenko, a lawyer representing former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko , from judicial proceedings. Vlasenko had been defending Tymoshenko in a criminal case related to United Energy Systems of...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged the Bahraini government to end systematic attacks on injured patients and stop arresting medical professionals linked to recent anti-government protests. In a 54-page report entitled "Targets...

Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International (NI) and former editor of the newspaper News of the World , was arrested Sunday by UK police on charges related to a wide-spread phone hacking scandal. Police arrested Brooks...

The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday ordered that both Thailand and Cambodia immediately withdraw military personnel from a disputed area along the border between the two countries. The Temple of Preah...

A Hungarian court on Monday dropped war crimes charges against accused Nazi Sandor Kepiro, who was alleged to have participated in the 1942 Novi Sad massacre in Serbia. Thirty-five people were killed by Hungarian forces under Kepiro's control during...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Friday dismissed consolidated racketeering claims against British Petroleum (BP) in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news...

Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International (AI), the Arabic Network For Human Rights Information (ANHRI) and Front Line Defenders (FLD) on Saturday urged United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities to end the trial of five pro-democracy...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday unanimously rejected a constitutional challenge to the full-body scans conducted at airports by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) . The appeals...

US Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will open an inquiry into whether journalists working for the media company News Corporation (News Corp.) and its...