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An opposition figure in Uganda was detained Monday on the orders of the army chief, whose increased role in his father’s administration has worried opposition and human rights defenders. Erias Lukwago was taken from his house by armed soldiers after he had sought to serve Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba...

A Dutch court has sentenced a Syrian man to 26 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed during his time working for the regime of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The court in The Hague handed down the sentence to Rafik A on Monday, having found that he tortured and raped...

The Pristina Basic Court has placed five former members of the Serbian police force into 30-day custody, it announced on Monday. The men are suspected of involvement in the January 15, 1999 massacre in Recak/Racak, which was the catalyst for the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia two months later. The five...

South Korea’s ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for sending military drones into North Korea, a move prosecutors argued was aimed at creating a pretext for his disastrous martial law declaration in 2024. The drone flights, which Pyongyang said included the dropping...

Amnesty International accused Israel on Wednesday of carrying out a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank with the intention to annex the Palestinian territory. The accusation came in a new, 149-page report alleging that the forced displacement of West Bank...

Pakistan has renewed deadly air strikes on neighboring Afghanistan, officials in both countries said Wednesday, in the worst violence in weeks following a period of relative calm. Pakistan's government said on Wednesday that 26 "militants" linked to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan group were killed...

Croatia’s High Criminal Court on Wednesday upheld the 2023 verdict of the Zagreb County Court, which sentenced Branimir Glavas to seven years in prison for war crimes against Serbs in the city of Osijek, eastern Croatia in 1991. The crimes took place against Serb civilians in Osijek during Croatia’s...

At least 360 people kidnapped by Boko Haram jihadists from a mainly Muslim community in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state in March have been freed from a remote mountain hideout. Mass abductions by armed groups for ransom have become a common tactic in Nigeria in recent years — and though it is...

French anti-terrorism prosecutors say they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected “torture” and “war crimes” over Israel’s alleged mistreatment of French activists who took part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last month. Israel abducted and detained some 430 activists from about 40...

In Ecuador, violent drug cartels have arrived from around the world to secure cocaine trafficking routes to the coast and homicide rates have skyrocketed. President Daniel Noboa has pinned his hopes of lowering the violence on heavy police and military deployments across the country. In doing so...