Just before taking the step certain to mark a foreign policy shift from the Trump administration, President Biden made a last-minute call Thursday to Saudi Arabia’s crown prince.
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A court in Serbia Tuesday sentenced a former mayor to more than four years in prison for ordering an arson attack on the home of a journalist who was investigating corruption.
Read moreVALLETTA, Malta (AFP) — One of three men accused of planting a car bomb that killed Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana
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A Belarusian court on Friday opened the trial of a journalist accused of revealing personal data in her report on the death of a protester, part of authorities’ efforts to stifle protests against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.
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A court in Belarus on Thursday sent two female journalists to prison on charges of violating public order after they covered a protest against the nation’s authoritarian president.
Read moreA journalist filed a lawsuit against the city of Richmond, California, on Wednesday, claiming she was shot by a police officer with a rubber bullet while clearly identified as a reporter covering a protest of the murder of George Floyd.
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The CIA can reject a public records request seeking information on U.S. payments to Syrian rebel forces because a tweet from former President Trump didn’t officially acknowledge such records exist, the D.C. Circuit found.
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Mexican authorities arrested a former governor Wednesday on charges that he had a reporter who investigated his role in a pedophilia ring illegally arrested and tortured.
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A panel of Fifth Circuit judges heard arguments related to the First Amendment on Wednesday in the case of a popular citizen journalist in Texas who was arrested for putting the names of two deceased people on social media before they were made public by authorities.
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Pakistani-British man acquitted of the 2002 gruesome beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl off death row and moved to a so-called government “safe house.”
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The Fourth Circuit appeared unlikely Thursday afternoon to side with Maryland in a dispute over state courts’ ability to limit the dissemination of otherwise publicly available court recordings.
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the release Thursday of a Pakistani-British man convicted and later acquitted in the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.
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A TV news reporter was threatened with arrest Wednesday night after trying to ask a question at a town hall event put on by Marjorie Taylor Greene, as the congresswoman representing the northwest corner of Georgia faces growing criticism on Capitol Hill.
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After 18 years of denial, the Pakistani suspect convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl has told a court he played a “minor” role in the killing, the Pearl family lawyer said Wednesday.
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Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century, died Saturday. He was 87.
Read moreA federal court in New York rejected the federal government’s attempt to not specifically identify the tape of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi in a Vaughn index. President Donald Trump’s statement admitting that U.S. intelligence agencies had reviewed the tape and that the government is in possession of it, and another statement made by Vice President Mike Pence, preclude the government from claiming that identifying the tape would reveal “undisclosed classified information.”
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Europe’s human rights court on Tuesday lambasted Turkish authorities for violating a prominent investigative journalist’s rights when they tossed him in prison for months during a crackdown on people perceived to be enemies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Drawing alarm at the D.C. Circuit, a lawyer for the United States argued Monday that the government has the power to kill its citizens without judicial oversight when state secrets are involved.
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MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — A Philippine journalist who survived a previous attempt on his life by pretending to be dead
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Over a decade after militants in Afghanistan kidnapped an American journalist and two colleagues at gunpoint, holding the trio hostage for nearly a year, U.S. authorities announced Wednesday that they have arrested and charged a onetime Taliban commander in the crime.
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