Lynne Stewart, the fighting activist attorney who gained fame with her 2005 conviction for “providing material support” to terrorism, died at her home in Brooklyn. (Photo: The Indypendent)
As the US moves to deploy the THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea, local farmers have launched a protest campaign and lawsuit to halt the installation.
Amid shifting alliances in the scramble for northern Syria, Kurdish-led forces are accused of handing over territory to the Assad regime, in a deal brokered by Russia.
The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals referred Turkey to the UN Security Council for detention of a judge on suspicion of involvement in last year's coup attempt.
The New York Police Department reached a new settlement providing greater oversight of intelligence-gathering programs, after a federal judge rejected an earlier deal.
Trump signed a new order barring nationals from six Muslim-majority countries that he hopes will pass judicial muster, but the ACLU pledges to fight it as a "Muslim ban."
UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz called for the US to adopt a legally consistent approach to indigenous land rights in pipeline projects.
In response to the mass execution of 15 prisoners in Jordan, human rights groups condemned the hangings as secretive and conducted "without transparency."
One of the Philippines' only lawmakers openly critical of President Rodrigo Duterte's blood-drenched "war on drugs" is herself facing "politically motivated" drug charges.
Yangon vigil for assassinated journalist Ko Soe Moe Tun. The climate for media freedom in Burma has improved since the long years of military dictatorship, when the press was censored and journalists were slain with impunity. But the recent killing of… Read moreBurma: scribe’s murder tests democratic opening
Are the "false flag" theories about the anti-Semitic threats vindicated by the bust of a left-wing ex-journo? No, because exploiting anti-Semitism to score points is still anti-Semitic.
The Benghazi Defense Brigades seized Libya's key oil ports from warlord Khalifa Haftar, and urged the Tripoli-based "official" government to take control of the country's "oil crescent."
