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Israel faced sharp criticism as it stopped the entry of all food and other supplies into Gaza and warned of “additional consequences” for Hamas if a fragile ceasefire is not extended. Mediators Egypt and Qatar accused Israel of violating humanitarian law by using starvation as a weapon. The...

Judges of the Supreme Court at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers war crimes court announced on Wednesday that they have upheld the 15-year prison sentence for former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Salih Mustafa, who was found guilty of arbitrary detention, torture, and murder. The court...

Friedrich Merz, who is expected to be Germany’s next chancellor, says he would make sure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can visit Germany despite an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Speaking to reporters, a day after his conservative Christian...

Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye was charged with treason in an escalation of legal troubles stemming from allegations he plotted to remove the country’s long-time leader by force. Besigye, a four-time presidential candidate in the east African country, sat in a wheelchair as he faced the...

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been charged with allegedly masterminding and leading a far-right conspiracy to cling to power through a military coup. The South American country’s attorney general, Paulo Gonet, leveled the charges against the radical rightwing populist and several key...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk accused Rwanda-backed rebels, who seized a second major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), of killing children and attacking hospitals and warehouses storing humanitarian aid. Turk said in a statement that his office “confirmed cases...

Security forces in Syria said on Monday that they arrested three people involved in the execution of hundreds of civilians by government forces in Damascus in 2013, two years after the country’s 13-year civil war began. Dozens of police and security trucks lined the streets of Tadamon, a Damascus...

The Bosnian state prosecution requested the imposition of measures to stop Vidoje Blagojevic and his four co-defendants – all charged with wartime crimes against civilians in the Zvornik area – from leaving the country. “There is a high risk of flight,” said prosecutor Mersudin Pruzan, citing cases...

In four days of testimony at the Hague trial for former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three co-accused of war crimes, Sylejman Selimi said the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) General Staff “was not functional”. The defense is seeking to prove that the KLA did not have a rigid command structure like...

A prominent opposition figure jailed in Uganda for allegedly threatening state security is unwell and in need of urgent medical care. Four-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye, who has been in detention since his abduction from Kenya on Nov. 16, is infirm and experiences episodes of...