A South Korean court sentenced billionaire head of Samsung Lee Jae-yong to five years in jail for bribery on Friday. The Seoul Central District Court found that Lee paid former president...

A nine-judge panel of the Supreme Court of India ruled Thursday that privacy is a "constitutionally protected value." The ruling could have drastic consequences for the government—particularly the country's biometric identification program, Aadhaar ....

Nonreligious anti-abortion organizations must follow the Affordable Care Act (ACA) contraceptive mandate, ruled a split panel in the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Friday. The court rejected Real Alternative Inc.'s [advocacy...

Increasing violence in the Kasai provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has become more ethnic-based, according to a report released Friday by a team of UN human rights investigators. The UN team based their...

The French government and the Calais region are to furnish water and sanitation to migrants in the area, France's highest administrative court, the Conseil D'Etat ruled Monday. The county has said that it...

The UK High Court rejected a "crime of aggression" allegation Monday against former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair by a former Iraq General Abdul Wahed Shannan Al Rabbat. The two justices dismissed the claim as...

A federal district judge on Monday allowed President Donald Trump's election commission to move forward by dismissing the need for a prior privacy impact assessment before collecting voter data. US District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly denied...

Iran's judiciary chief asked the US Monday to release Iranians jailed in the US and to return Iran's assets after President Donald Trump called on the state to release three detained US citizens. Iran's Judiciary...

A US appeals court ruled on Monday that a nondisclosure requirement in the National Security Letters (NSL) law does not conflict with the First Amendment. Therefore the court also concluded that private companies that are issued an...

Opposition parties petitioned the Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday to remove Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office after the joint investigation team's (JIT) report stipulated that there was sufficient proof that the prime minister and his family...