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Shoestring Legal Aid Group Helps Poor in Rural India

In Chhattisgarh, human rights abuses are often overlooked in the clamor of a long-running conflict between Indian forces and a Maoist rebellion.

Shoestring Legal Aid Group Helps Poor in Rural India

The human rights lawyer Shalini Gera abandoned two decades of climbing the American academic and professional ladder and help found the group to aid...

Industry Issues Intrude in ‘Blurred Lines’ Case

While a copyright infringement case focuses on the sheet music version of a Robin Thicke hit, the trial raises questions about the music industry...

Recordings Suggest Emirates and Egyptian Military Pushed Ousting of Morsi

The unauthenticated recordings are the latest that appear to capture the private meetings and phone calls of senior defense officials. All have been released...

Recordings Suggest Emirates and Egyptian Military Pushed Ousting of Morsi

The unauthenticated recordings are the latest that appear to capture the private meetings and phone calls of senior defense officials. All have been released...

News Corp. Set to Rehire Rebekah Brooks, Acquitted Executive

After being acquitted in a British phone hacking scandal, Ms. Brooks is expected to take an executive role seeking ways to expand the company's...

On Pro Football: In Los Angeles, Stadiums Battle Heats Up

With three N.F.L. teams vying to move to the same city, studies criticize one proposal for a stadium in Inglewood, Calif.

World Briefing: Algeria: Violence Erupts at Protest Over Shale Gas Drilling Project

Protests in southern Algeria turned violent over the weekend when the police clashed with demonstrators outside a base run by the American company Halliburton...

World Briefing: Syria: 19 Christians Have Been Released by the Islamic State, Local Leaders Say

Nineteen of the Assyrian Christians seized by Islamic State militants last week in northeastern Syria have been freed, and they met with church officials...

World Briefing: Syria: 19 Christians Have Been Released by the Islamic State, Local Leaders Say

Nineteen of the Assyrian Christians seized by Islamic State militants last week in northeastern Syria have been freed, and they met with church officials...