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The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday unsealed arrest warrants against six members of a Libyan militia group charged with war crimes. In 2023, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said arrest warrants had been issued by court judges for war crimes in Libya since 2011, but these warrants were under...
Ukraine has documented evidence related to the execution of 93 Ukrainian prisoners of war, according to a law enforcement official tasked with investigating war crimes related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Yuriy Belousov, who heads the Prosecutor-General's Office’s department in charge of...
Research conducted by the UN human rights office (OHCHR) revealed that 67 nuclear tests performed between 1946 and 1958 by the United States Government in the Marshall Islands left communities displaced and contributed to radioactive land and sea pollution.  Through workshops and consultations...
Scores of people including three infants were killed in a gang attack in central Haiti, the United Nations Human Rights Office said in a statement on Friday. Members of the Gran Grif gang used automatic rifles to kill at least 70 people, including 10 women and three infants, according to the UN. The...
Authorities in Ukraine have launched an investigation into what they said was the apparent summary execution by Russian troops of 16 Ukrainian soldiers who had surrendered on the eastern frontline. Moscow did not immediately comment on the accusations. The Kremlin denies that Russia commits war...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that Iran would pay for its missile attack on Tuesday, while Tehran said any retaliation would be met with “vast destruction,” raising fears of a wider war. In its attack on Tuesday, Iran fired more than 180 ballistic missiles at Israel, Israel said...
A Tunisian court sentenced presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel to 12 years in prison on Tuesday, amid growing opposition anger against President Kais Saied, whose critics accuse him of using the judiciary to sideline his opponents. It was the third prison sentence imposed on Zammel in two weeks...
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan promised to launch a preliminary inquiry against Belarus over alleged crimes against humanity under the rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko after Lithuania submitted an investigation referral. Belarus is not a member of the...
Over 100 years after a white mob attacked a then-thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the first-ever federal probe into the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The attack on the Greenwood neighborhood, often referred to as "Black Wall Street," left up to...
The trial of a former doctor accused of genocide in Rwanda began this week, three decades after the massacre of the African country's Tutsi population by the Hutu majority. Eugene Rwamucyo, 65, is accused of aiding his country's authorities in disseminating anti-Tutsi propaganda and of participating...