Thousands of people in Belarus on Wednesday gathered to protest a labor law that fines people if they do not work enough days during the year. President Alexander Lukashenko enacted Ordinance No. 3 ...

UK House of Commons speaker John Bercow announced Thursday that the EU withdrawal bill has received royal assent and become law. UK Prime Minister Theresa May is now empowered to...

The UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues Rita Izsák-Ndiaye called release for action to preserve the progress made in the protection of minority rights. Speaking in her final address before the Human Rights Council ,...

Two federal judges—one in Maryland on Thursday and another in Hawaii on Wednesday—issued temporary restraining orders against President Donald Trump's new 90-day travel ban . Finding that the state had established...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the indictments of four Russian individuals in connection with hacking e-mail accounts on Wednesday. The DOJ indicted two members of the Russian intelligence agency FSB as well as two...

The Lublin District Court on Tuesday accepted the prosecutor's request for arrest from the Institute of National Remembrance for Michael Karkoc, a US citizen who is suspected of commanding a German-led Ukrainian military unit during the...

The escalation of hostilities in Eastern Ukraine between January and February has had a devastating impact on the lives of civilians, according to a UN report released Wednesday. The unrest has reportedly caused several deaths and numerous injuries,...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Wednesday for an independent investigation into the violent deaths of more than 155 people, including children, that occurred in the Kasese region of Uganda in November. The killings were reportedly committed...

French presidential candidate and former prime minister François Fillon was charged on Tuesday with misuse of public funds after being questioned about whether his relatives, who were on the public payroll as parliamentary aides, actually performed...

Brazil's top prosecutor has asked the country's Supreme Court to open 83 more investigations into politicians in connection to the Petrobras scandal . The list of names has sent to the court not been released . However,...