A preliminary hearing for two former African officials accused of human rights violations came to a close Friday, and judges on the International Criminal Court must now decide if there is sufficient evidence to hold a trial.
Read moreAt least six women told authorities that deputies raped and trafficked them to male inmates inside a long-troubled jail in southwestern Louisiana, according to newly unearthed state and FBI records.
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Tucked away in the dense forest of rural Louisiana is a barbed wire-ringed prison that has quickly grown into a major detention center for immigrants arrested at the border.
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The scene is playing out in courtrooms from coast to coast — federal judges being asked to block a new Trump administration policy scheduled to take effect next week that would deny legal permanent residency to immigrants who use public benefits.
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China is destroying burial grounds where generations of Uighur families have been laid to rest, leaving behind human bones and broken tombs in what Uighurs call an effort to eradicate the ethnic group’s identity in Xinjiang.
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam warned Tuesday that the Chinese military could step in if an uprising for democratic reforms that has rocked the city for months “becomes so bad,” but said her government still hopes to resolve the crisis itself.
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The Trump administration is blocking shipments from a Chinese company making baby pajamas sold at Costco warehouses after the foreign manufacturer was accused of forcing ethnic minorities locked in an internment camp to sew clothes against their will.
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam banned protesters from wearing masks Friday in a hardening of the government’s stance on the territory’s most disruptive crisis since it reverted to Chinese rule in 1997.
Read moreNorthern Ireland’s strict abortion law violates the United Kingdom’s human rights commitments, a High Court judge in Northern Ireland ruled Thursday.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas took to the world stage Thursday to slam the United States for “depriving the peace process of any credibility” and undermining prospects for a two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Two Bloomberg reporters went on trial in a Turkish court Friday, facing up to five years in prison over claims they tried to sabotage the economy with an article about last year’s currency crisis.
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Abel Oset was seized with panic. After an 11-country odyssey that began when he and his namesake son fled Cuba, and included a moment on U.S. soil, he was crossing back into America. But he wasn’t sure he’d be able to stay.
Read moreA federal judge refused Arizona’s request to terminate monitoring of its maximum security prison units, finding the state’s arguments “must be viewed with a heavy dose of skepticism” and “make little sense;” for instance, “routinely offering outdoor exercise to sleeping prisoners during typical sleeping hours” does not actually offer them out-of-cell time.
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With an eye on re-election, France’s Emmanuel Macron has signaled a tougher line on immigration, saying the government must end its “lax” approach, to prevent voters from drifting to the far right.
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Hong Kong police fired chemical-laced blue water and tear gas at protesters who lobbed Molotov cocktails outside the government office complex Sunday, as violence flared anew and thousands of pro-democracy supporters marched through downtown in defiance of a police ban.
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Authoritarian abuse of Interpol’s notice system, and the ability to persecute state enemies through the system, was the focus of a brief Helsinki Commission hearing in Washington Thursday.
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The Trump administration is ready to open a tent court on the border to help handle tens of thousands of cases of asylum-seekers forced to wait in Mexico, with hearings held entirely by videoconference.
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Rwanda on Tuesday agreed to take in hundreds and potentially thousands of African Immigrants stranded in Libya, a deal the African Union hopes to replicate with other member states.
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Pakistan’s foreign minister on Tuesday demanded that the United Nations launch an international investigation into the situation in Indian Kashmir, warning of the risk of “genocide” in the Muslim-majority region.
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Burhan Nazir Parrey, 16, has a gaping wound in his shoulder the size of a cricket ball, the latest victim of what Kashmiris say is indiscriminate brutality by Indian forces.
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