US President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US will place harsh tariffs on Russia's oil trading partners if no peace deal is reached between Russia and Ukraine within 50 days. Trump declined ...

The German Federal Constitutional Court on Tuesday dismissed a constitutional complaint brought by two Yemeni citizens regarding the United States' use of a German air base to deploy drones. The ...

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) issued a statement earlier today that strongly condemned the violence and vote-buying that marred the parliamentary re-run elections held in ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on Senegalese authorities to immediately release news commentator Badara Gadiaga, cease the arrest of journalists, and end retaliation against media ...

Nearly half of US states joined in a complaint against the Trump administration and the Education Department on Monday over the $6 billion funding freeze for K-12 schools and adult education.

Moscow's Military Court sentenced a Russian writer to 14 years of imprisonment in absentia on Monday for failing to follow 'foreign agent' regulations, facilitating terroristic activity, and ...

Demographic decline, once dismissed as a niche obsession of “pronatalists” on the right, has increasingly gained mainstream media and scholarly attention in the United States. In this way the US is ...

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The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with mass layoffs at the Education Department while legal challenges continue. The court granted the administration's request ...

Amnesty International urged Thailand's House of Representatives on Tuesday to grant amnesty to individuals accused and detained solely for political activism, including offenses related to the lèse ...

Amnesty International (AI) released a report on Monday alleging the Venezuelan government is using a systemic campaign of enforced disappearances to persecute political opponents. The report follows ...

Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and lawyer based in Pakistan.   Pakistan’s information and freedom of speech ...