South Korea's parliament has put forward a historic bill to impeach President Park Geun-hye, but it has a long way to go when taking into account the political bickering between rival parties and uncertainty about the constitutional court ruling.
India's supreme court has ruled that the national anthem must be played in every cinema before a film is screened.
Cambodia’s UN-backed court upheld life sentences for two top former Khmer Rouge leaders on Wednesday for crimes against humanity, delivering a blow to their hopes of release as they face a second trial for genocide.
A restructuring of geopolitical allegiances looks increasingly likely as Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte continues to express disillusionment with Western values
Russian President Vladimir Putin withdrew his nation from the International Criminal Court on Wednesday, a day after a United Nations committee condemned Russia for human rights abuses in Crimea.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday that she had a “reasonable basis to believe” that American soldiers committed war crimes in Afghanistan, including torture.
A widely expected legal challenge has been filed by an Irish privacy advocacy group to an EU-U.S. commercial data transfer pact underpinning billions of dollars of trade in digital services just two months after it came into force, sources said.
A 12-year-old Australian boy charged with raping a six-year-old girl at a primary school at Sydney's northern beaches has entered into a not guilty plea.
For the 16-year-old Bareilly rape survivor who has been pleading to the court for an abortion after she found herself pregnant, time is running out.
Cambodia's Phnom Penh Municipal Court began trial of deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha on Friday for his "refusal to appear" in a prostitution case.
An Indian court on Monday (Aug 29) sentenced a school principal to 17 years' jail over the death of 23 pupils who were served a free meal laced with pesticide, a prosecutor said.
India's Supreme Court has ruled that people below the age of 18 years cannot participate in making of human pyramids during a Hindu religious festival of Janmashtami, officials said Thursday.
A New York City man appeared in court on Tuesday (Aug 16) and denied charges he shot and killed a Muslim cleric and his assistant on a street in the borough of Queens over the weekend.
A Chinese military court on Monday sentenced Guo Boxiong, former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), to life in prison for accepting bribes.
The Turkish president on Wednesday stressed solidarity with the United States in dealing with the extradition of Gulen, who was accused by Ankara of plotting the failed military coup.
A school was right to cut the pay of a teacher who refused to stand for the national anthem, a Japanese court has ruled.
Former deputy head of China's national political advisory body Ling Jihua was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday for taking bribes, illegally obtaining state secrets and abuse of power.
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