Judge Pablo Llarena of the Supreme Court of Spain on Monday ordered the continued detention of four members of the Catalan National Assembly while allowing six other members...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday informed the UN of the US' withdrawal from participation in the UN process to develop a Global Compact on Migration (GCM) The GCM is the first, intergovernmentally...

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday in favor of the Yukon First Nations in their action to fight the Yukon government's proposed plan to allow further economic development...

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday in favor of the Yukon First Nations in their action to fight the Yukon government's proposed plan to allow further economic development of the Peel Watershed. The court declared that the...

The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Georgia on Thursday decriminalized marijuana usage. The suit was brought in opposition to article 273 of the Georgia criminal code, which punished marijuana...

UK consumer activist group Google You Owe Us initiated representative legal action Thursday against tech giant Google, alleging that Google illegally mined private information from consumers. According to Google You Owe Us, the tech giant unlawfully...

African and European leaders, gathered in Abidjan for the 5th AU/EU Summit , condemned in a joint statement the inhuman treatment of African migrants and refugees by criminal groups. The statement is seen as an response to...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced that it has initiated an independent expert review on internal operations after the death of Slobodan Praljak, who consumed poison in the courtroom on...

People and municipalities in Lebanon have resorted to burning garbage as a result of government mismanagement, causing detrimental health effects, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Friday. Lebanon's waste crisis erupted in 2015 when authorities closed the main landfill...

The Danish parliament on Thursday approved a bill giving new powers to the Energy, Supply and Climate ministry related to the Nord Stream-2 pipeline. The pipeline, built by Russian petroleum giant Gazprom , will carry natural...