An Egyptian court upheld the death sentence of deposed president Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday after consulting the grand Mufti, Egypt's highest religious figure and a government advisor on Islamic law. The death sentence was...

UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday renewed his call for the country to repeal the Human Rights Act and institute its own bill of rights in an article for the Sun newspaper . Cameron...

The Belgian Privacy Commission announced Monday that it is suing Facebook for alleged violations of Belgian and European privacy laws . In May, the commission issued Facebook a set of recommendations urging the...

The Cabinet of Israel on Sunday approved a bill allowing the force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike if their lives are at risk. Entitled Preventing Damage from Hunger Strikes , the law would require doctors to exhaust...

Romania's Superior Magistrates' Council on Monday rejected 22 proposals that would have made it harder to fight top-level corruption. The proposals, developed by the governing Social Democratic Party , would have changed the law...

Sudan President Omar al-Bashir was allowed to leave South Africa on Monday, despite a ruling by the North Gauteng High Court that he should be kept in the country because of International Criminal Court...

The world is facing its worst refugee crisis since World War II , Amnesty International (AI) said Monday, calling on world leaders to reform domestic and international policies. AI released a new briefing Monday ahead...

An international group of high-ranking military officials and diplomats has found that Israel met or exceeded international standards during its 2014 conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, according to a report from the group published by UN Watch...

A judge for South Africa's high court on Sunday issued an order barring Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir , who has an international warrant out for his arrest, from leaving the country. Bashir, who was visiting South Africa for...

The US is hindering Poland's investigation into a secret CIA prison there, a Polish prosecutor said Saturday. Piotr Kosmaty, spokesman for the Appeals Prosecutor's Office in Krakow that is doing the investigation, said that the US has...