The EU Court of Justice on Wednesday upheld EU rules that will require health warnings to cover 65 percent of a cigarette pack. The rules, approved by the EU Parliament in 2014, also ban the...

Federal prosecutors in Brazil have filed a civil lawsuit against mining companies Vale SA BHP Billiton Ltd. worth 155 billion reais (USD $43.55 billion) for a November dam collapse...

Brazilian local media reported Tuesday that the country's top prosecutors have requested an investigation into President Dilma Rousseff over alleged connections to the Petrobras corruption scandal. Though Rousseff has spoken against the accusations and threatened legal action, prosecutors claim that...

The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Tuesday sentenced four men to death for crimes against humanity committed during Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971. Five men were tried, but only four received death sentences...

Four men were arrested Monday in connection with the murder of Berta Cáceres, the founder of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations Honduras (COPINH) and a prominent defender of indigenous rights and the...

An Argentinian federal prosecutor on Monday made a formal request to a judge to conduct an investigation of former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her son for illegal enrichment. Federal prosecutor Carlos Rivolo has been overseeing...

India's Ministry of External Affairs said Monday that India will allow detained Italian marine Salvatore Girone to return home. The statement came after Italy's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)...

The US Army Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled that the lawyers for US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl should be allowed access to classified materials. In an opinion made public Saturday, the three-judge court upheld the military...

UN Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheik Ahmed announced Saturday that peace negotiations between Yemeni parties in Kuwait were off to an "encouraging start that will set the ground for a negotiated solution." Both the Government...

One day after storming parliament, Iraqi protesters are camping out Sunday within the confines of Baghdad's International Zone, also referred to as the "Green Zone." The Green Zone is a secured area that includes embassies and government buildings....