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Enslaved African people were seared with hot metal brands bearing the royal crown, according to research by historians who have documented the monarchy’s centuries-long involvement in Britain’s slave trade. The Register of British Slave Traders identifies thousands of people who invested in Britain...

Nicaragua has urged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to allow its case against Germany to continue, saying its arms exports to Israel violate the 1948 Genocide Convention and humanitarian law, as they were used in the genocidal war on Gaza. The appeal came on Tuesday as public hearings on...

Ratko Mladić, a Serbian general convicted of orchestrating the worst massacre in Europe since the second world war, has been given a hero’s funeral attended by thousands in Belgrade despite international alarm. Known as the “Butcher of Bosnia” for his role during the Balkans genocide in the 1990s...

The United Kingdom’s government has reiterated that it rejects reparations for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade as Jamaica has petitioned King Charles III over the issue. Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s spokesperson said on Monday that “the UK does not and will not pay reparations”...

Kosovo’s Special Prosecution announced on Friday that it has filed an indictment charging 35 suspects with involvement in the murder of 26 civilians at the compound of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Adem Jashari in the village of Prekaz in Skenderaj/Srbica in March 1998. The Balkan...

Russia Pounds Kyiv for More Rhan 12 hours, Killing at Least a Dozen in 6th Straight Day of Attacks Russia bombarded the Ukrainian capital for more than 12 hours overnight and into Tuesday, killing at least a dozen people in another aerial onslaught that authorities said was aimed at menacing...

Two reports investigating the forcible contraception of thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland by Danish health authorities for decades were split over whether the practice constituted genocide. The Greenlandic government, which commissioned the inquiry, released the reports Friday but...

Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces besieged the Bosnian capital for several years in the 1990s and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, died Thursday while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He was 84. Mladic died at a...

The European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, on Tuesday ruled for a second time that Turkey should release the jailed philanthropist and human rights activist Osman Kavala. Judges found that his detention and conviction violated multiple provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights. “The...

Serbia’s Justice Minister Nenad Vujic has once again called for the release of the convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic. On Tuesday, he asked the UN war crimes court in The Hague to consider a new request by the family of the former Bosnian Serb military leader. Vujic made the plea in a letter to...