The increased "securitization" of Europe has disadvantaged ethnic and religious groups, particularly Muslims Amnesty International (AI) said in a report Tuesday. AI looked at human rights analyses drawn from 14 EU member states. The group warned of...

The Special Prosecution for the Republic of Kosovo has filed an indictment against former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla Remiz Shala. He is charged with detaining an Albanian civilian suspected of collaborating with Serbia for...

South Korea's special prosecutor is seeking a warrant to arrest Samsung Group's chief Jay Y. Lee after accusing Lee of bribing a friend of South Korea's President, Park Geun-hye . The special prosecutor's office...

Oman's Foreign Ministry announced that it has accepted 10 detainees from Guantanamo Bay upon request from the Obama administration. However, there has been no official statement released by the US Defense Department on the...

The Turkish Grand National Assembly approved on Sunday the final article of a constitutional reform package, which opponents fear will take the country closer toward authoritarianism. Five of the 18 articles were already approved ...

The High Administrative Court in Egypt on Monday rejected the appeal of a lower court's decision in June to stop the government from handing over two uninhabited islands, Tiran and Sanafir, in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a recent letter, warned President-Elect Trump against moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Specifically, Abbas said the move would have a "disastrous impact on the peace process, on the two-state solution...

The Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said he plans to declare martial law if the country's drug problem becomes "very virulent." Duterte, who recently called reports that he intended to institute martial law "nonsense," has made a...

Former Haitian coup leader Guy Philippe pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of drug trafficking and money laundering in the Federal Court for the Southern District of Florida . Philippe was arrested on January 5 and...

Three men were executed by firing squad in Bahrain on Sunday after being convicted of killing three policemen in March 2014. The execution came a week after a the high court upheld their sentence, leading to...