Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday signed into law an anti-defamation bill that prohibits blaming Poland for assisting in Holocaust crimes. The Act on the Institute of National Remembrance - Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Wednesday criticized Indonesia's increasing public attitude of religious intolerance and urged the government to address it. Zeid also criticized the country's blasphemy laws as "ill-defined" and...

Three justices of the Maldives Supreme Court on Tuesday annulled a controversial ruling the court had issued last Thursday that required the government to immediately release a number of political prisoners. The reversal came a...

Secretary of Defense James Mattis on Monday fired two Guantánamo Bay officials responsible for overseeing the trials of accused war criminals including the planners of the 9/11 attack. The officials are Harvey Rishikof, designated by Mattis as...

The five-member Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal on Tuesday unanimously reversed the August 2017 order sentencing the pro-democracy 2014 Umbrella Movement protesters Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow, quashing their sentences and setting them free....

The Scotland Court of Session on Tuesday rejected a petition from a group of individuals from the Scotland and EU parliaments asking the court to make a preliminary reference to the European Court of...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signed an executive order Monday "to improve local content in public procurement with science, engineering and technology components." Buhari announced Executive Order 5 (EO) via his official Twitter account stating: "the EO is...

A South Korean appeals court on Monday suspended a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence for Jay Y Lee , billionaire heir of Samsung Group. In August the Seoul Central District Court , found that Lee paid former president Park Geun-hye...

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom declared a state of emergency Monday for the next 15 days as political tensions between the president and the Supreme Court continue to escalate. The country has remained in a...

Voters in Ecuador on Sunday voted to reinstate a two-term limit for elected officials, with 64 percent of voters in favor of referendum question 2, which would amend the constitution so that all elected officials can only...