Supporters of Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff on Sunday plan to rally in support of the President, who is facing a Senate impeachment trial. The supporters plan to decry the President's potential impeachment. The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies...
Thai police confirmed Saturday that eight people have been charged with sedition and computer crimes in relation to Facebook posts in opposition of the government. The activists were detained on Wednesday for comments concerning Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha...
The Supreme Court of North Korea on Friday sentenced US citizen, Kim Dong-chul, to 10 years in prison and hard labor on charges of subversion and espionage . Kim, 62, was a resident of Virginia before moving to China...
Reinhold Hanning, a 94-year-old former Schutzstaffel (SS) guard in the Auschwitz death camp between 1942 and 1944, apologized to Nazi victims at his trial in Detmold, a small town in West Germany. Hanning, who is accused of being an accessory...
The North Gauteng High Court in South Africa on Friday ordered that the 2009 decision to discontinue the prosecution of President Jacob Zuma on 783 corruption charges be set aside, and that Zuma and his codefendants...
US Central Command released its final report Friday on the October airstrike that hit a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, finding that the strike was not a war crime. The investigation concluded...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday urged all parties to disengage from all-out war in Syria, expressing deep concern over a "monstrous disregard for civilian lives." Reports of civilian deaths...
The Constitutional Court of Colombia on Thursday legalized same-sex marriage. In a 6-3 decision , the court found that same-sex marriage does not violate the country's constitution . The decision comes just...
China passed a new law Thursday restricting non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and subjecting them to intense governmental scrutiny and other obligations such as reporting their sources of income and increasing the number of reasons for which their licenses will...
More than 700 citizens and residents of Japan filed lawsuits against the government Tuesday over new security laws that would allow the deployment of troops abroad to defend allies. The measure, backed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...