A panel of United Nations (UN) experts told the Security Council Tuesday that there has been increased hostility and violence in South Sudan since the adoption of a resolution imposing sanctions on the...

Guatemala's Supreme Court on Tuesday approved prosecutors' requests to impeach President Otto Perez Molina for corruption allegations, despite the president having immunity from prosecution. Perez Molina and about 30 other government officials are accused of taking millions...

A Guatemalan court on Wednesday held that former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt can stand for trial for genocide and crimes against humanity but cannot be sentenced because he suffers from dementia. The court held that a...

Germany's highest appeal court on Tuesday affirmed a 2013 decision by a lower court that invalidated a series of Apple smartphone patents. The ruling by the Federal Court of Justice invalidates...

A Pakistani court on Tuesday suspended the execution of a civilian man sentenced to death by a military court after a legal challenge, the first of such challenges since the Pakistan Supreme Court allowed these hearings. The...

Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Tuesday that the Maldives government had taken a step back by sending former president Mohammad Nasheed back to prison. Nasheed was sent back to jail...

A Russian military court on Tuesday sentenced two Ukrainian activists to substantial jail time for the charge of conspiring to commit terror attacks. Oleg Sentsov, a filmmaker, and Aleksandr Kolchenko, an ecologist and antifascist activist, received...

El Salvador's Supreme Court ruled Monday that the country's street gangs and those who support them financially will now be classified as terrorist groups. The ruling was made as part of a...

A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday spoke against the execution of an Iraqi man and his two wives in the Kurdistan region. Human rights officials...

UN Humanitarian Coordinator and Deputy Special Representative for the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) Aurélien A. Agbénonci on Monday strongly condemned an August 20 attack...