US District Judge Allison D. Burroughs granted universities and university advocacy groups relief Wednesday when she approved their motion for a temporary restraining order on the federal Department ...

UN Special Envoy Huang Xia called for greater coordination of efforts to resolve the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Wednesday amid escalating violence by the M23 rebel group and ...

A Moscow court on Wednesday ordered former Kursk region governor Alexei Smirnov held in custody as authorities investigate 'major fraud' allegations ahead of his June 15 trial, according to state ...

Gambian national Michael Sang Correa was convicted by a Colorado jury for participating in the torture of victims in 2006, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Tuesday. Correa was a part of a ...

The UK Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that trans women are not legally recognised as women under the Equality Act 2010. The case arose after the Scottish Parliament passed the Gender Representation ...

Chief Judge James Boasberg of the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Wednesday that there is 'probable cause' to hold the government in contempt for defying his earlier order to ...

A federal judge in Texas vacated a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regulation on Tuesday. The ruling by Judge Mark Pittman, a federal district court judge for the Northern District of ...

Canada's Federal Court of Appeal dismissed a prominent challenge to the federal government's 2020 ban on assault-style firearms on Tuesday. The ruling upheld the legality of the government’s ...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland ordered Trump officials on Tuesday to give sworn testimony ...

The Tunisian government has made arbitrary detention a central instrument of state policy, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a ...

A Peruvian court on Tuesday sentenced former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, to 15 years in prison and nearly 3 million dollars in civil reparation for aggravated money ...

The Associated Press (AP) filed a preliminary injunction on Wednesday seeking to ensure immediate compliance with the injunction imposed last week that ordered the White House to allow AP reporters ...