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Nearly half of Ukrainians held in Russian detention centers in Kherson were subjected to widespread torture including sexual violence, according to a report published Wednesday. The report reveals analysis of an initial pool of 320 cases of detention in Kherson, across more than 35 identified...

The entire urban space of Gernika-Lumo, in Spain’s northern Basque region, will be considered a “place of memory.” The Spanish government, which had originally meant to grant this status to one landmark building, has decided to expand it to the entire municipality, known worldwide for having been...

U.S. President Joe Biden has ordered his administration to begin sharing evidence of alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), a U.S official said on Wednesday. The Pentagon had been resistant to the move and privately argued that any cooperation...

Russian authorities on Monday sentenced an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to nine years in prison for "participating in an extremist organization," Navalny's team announced on Telegram. Vadim Ostanin was head of Navalny's office in the Siberian city of Barnaul and was detained in December...

Caribbean countries are considering approaching the UN’s International Court of Justice for a legal opinion on demanding compensation from 10 European countries over slavery, as the fight for reparative justice is stepped up, the president of the group of 33 nations in the region has said. Ralph...

Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are being detained across Russia and the Ukrainian territories it occupies, in centers ranging from brand-new wings in Russian prisons to clammy basements. Most have no status under Russian law. And Russia is planning to hold possibly thousands more. A Russian...

The Kosovo government said on Tuesday it will scale down the police presence and take other measures to lower tensions in a northern region where hostilities between Albanians and ethnic Serbs have reached their highest level since the country declared independence in 2008. Violence in north Kosovo...

A solemn peace march has been held through forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II. The annual 100 km (62 mile) march held on Saturday retraces a route taken by thousands of men and boys from the Bosniak ethnic group...

Russia has brought some 700,000 children from the conflict zones in Ukraine into Russian territory, Grigory Karasin, head of the international committee in the Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament, said late on Sunday. "In recent years, 700,000 children have found refuge with us...

An international center opened Monday in The Hague to support nations already building cases against senior Russian leaders for the crime of aggression resulting from the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine is the...