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South Korea’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a seven-year prison sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol in the first case to reach the country’s highest court from his several criminal trials related to his brief imposition of martial law in 2024. The court upheld an April ruling by the Seoul...

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo said on Wednesday that “structural and operational shortcomings” continue to undermine the efficiency, consistency, and perceived fairness of war crime proceedings in Kosovo courts and that delays and procedural uncertainty risk affecting the rights of the accused, the...

More than 6,000 people on Wednesday set off from the village of Nezuk on the annual Peace March to the Srebrenica Memorial Centre in Potocari, retracing part of the route taken by thousands of Bosniak men and boys who fled the fall of the UN-declared safe area of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in July...

A former rebel fighter now allied with the Sudanese government has proposed a new path forward for ending Sudan’s civil war and establishing a democratic government. Malik Agar Ayyir, chairman of a Sudanese militia group that once fought Khartoum, is now calling for restoring the state’s monopoly on...

The war in Sudan has killed or wounded more than 300 children in the last six months, mostly from drone strikes, the UN children’s agency said Monday. The Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been fighting since April 2023. The war is now concentrated in the Kordofan...

More than 5,500 children have been newly displaced by fighting over the strategic Sudanese city of el-Obeid, and thousands more are at risk, Save the Children has warned. “As families arrive in displacement sites and into local communities, they face increasingly difficult living conditions,” the...

The Israeli parliament approved a bill in its first reading on Monday to establish a commission of inquiry into the security failings that led to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. The bill passed its first reading in the Knesset, Israel's 120-seat parliament, with 59 votes in favor and none...

The Philippine Senate, acting as an impeachment court, opened the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday in a politically volatile event that will unfold against the backdrop of her bitter feud with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. More than 6,000 police officers, including anti-riot squads...

The Malian army said Saturday that several northern towns, including Gao and Sévaré, were targeted by rebels. The statement came as a rebel group announced a new offensive to capture a northern town. Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane, a spokesperson for the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), said in a...

Australian federal police (AFP) investigators are assessing a brief detailing alleged war crimes committed by an Australian citizen serving in the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza. A 61-page brief has been handed to the AFP by the Australian Centre for International Justice detailing alleged war crimes...