Pakistani security forces are routinely detaining, torturing and murdering hundreds of political activists in Balochistan in what some observers describe as a ?dirty war.?
U.S. visa restrictions on Russian officials linked to the death of hedge fund lawyer Sergei Magnitsky could become a "serious irritant" in bilateral relations and provoke a response from Moscow, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
Only a very small portion of these people are receiving anti-viral drugs to treat their condition.
Accused killer Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted responsibility for last Friday's shooting and bombing spree in Noway, will likely end up in an IKEA-like "suite" at one of the world's most luxurious prisons.
An international rights group on Wednesday called on Uganda to stop prosecuting civilians in military courts and to immediately release 341 people under army detention.
The upcoming trial of Anders Behring Breivik has shined a spotlight on Norway's innovative prison system.
The Ugandan High Court has ordered the police to produce a journalist who has been held in an unknown location for 13 days, after a local media watchdog sued security chiefs over his disappearance.
The boy was kidnapped when his father refused to cooperate with the Taliban.
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Wedding fever hit New York on Sunday, as hundreds of gay and lesbian couples lined up to be married on the first day that same-sex marriage was legal in the state.
Former Chinese fugitive, Mr Lai was immediately arrested after landing in Beijing on Saturday, he had been put on a Beijing-bound Air Canada flight from Vancouver Friday after a court cleared the way Thursday for his extradition
After France, Belgium is the second European state to enforce such a prohibition
Russia, which boycotted the Nobel ceremony on Friday, suggested that the Norwegian Committee should award a peace prize to Julian Assange. In an unusual move, Moscow called upon Rights group to rally support for the whistle-blower. Meanwhile, snubbing the communist China, the Nobel Prize committee has called for the immediate release of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
Four Kenyans have been granted permission by the High Court to sue the British Foreign Office on charges that they were tortured by colonial officials during the 1950s and 1960s at the time of the Mau Mau rebellion.
The 'Gang of Six' senators have a lot riding on their shoulders: They may hold the power to save the United States from default.
Texas inmate Mark Stroman was executed on Wednesday night for hate crimes, making him the seventh person to be executed in the state this year.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has advised India to take a more assertive role in Asia.
Update on the Ratko Mladic war crimes trail in The Hague.
The 'Gang of Six' Senators may hold the power to save the U.S. from default.
The U.S. Government borrowing authority ends on August 2. A failure by Democrats and Republicans to reach a deal on the debt ceiling could result in an event most economists for decades thought was unfathomable -- a default by the largest and most technologically advanced economy in the world.
In a presidential campaign likely to be a referendum on President Barack Obama's economic management, GOP hopeful Michele Bachmann's gay rights views -- and the seemingly regular fallout they generate -- could make or break her 2012 presidential push.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.,'s position on gay rights is playing an increasingly central role in her campaign, with Politico reporting that gay rights activists are focusing their energy on Bachmann as a foil for the gay rights movement.
