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Congo said Friday it has filed a case against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice, accusing its neighbor of bearing legal responsibility for more than three decades of violence that has devastated eastern Congo. Congo accused Rwanda of breaching international conventions on genocide, racial...

President Zoran Milanovic has stripped Branimir Glavas, a retired military general and politician, of his state decorations, according to a decision published on Wednesday in Croatia’s Official Gazette. The decorations were revoked following a ruling by the High Criminal Court of Croatia, which made...

Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children in what has become a key factor in an ongoing "genocide" in Gaza, United Nations investigators charged on Tuesday, in a report slammed by Israel. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry said it had found evidence that "Palestinian...

Sexual violence is increasingly being used as a "weapon of war" in Sudan to terrorize the civilian population, a UN report says. The violence is "unprecedented in terms of the scale, prevalence and brutality of its widespread use as a weapon of war", the report adds. Sudan has been hit by a...

The majority-Muslim southern city, in the Kordofan region, has been under siege for several months by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, also known as Hemedti. The United Nations Security Council expressed its "grave concern" on Saturday, regarding reports of the...

A new report published on Monday says denial of the war crimes committed during the Yugoslav wars is routinely used by those in power in Serbia to discredit opponents, civil society organizations, and independent media, particularly during periods of political tension and public dissent. The report...

Far-right lawyer Abelardo De La Espriella has clinched a narrow victory in Colombia’s presidential run-off election, according to an initial ballot count. Abelardo de la Espriella won 49.7 percent of the vote versus left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda’s 48.70 percent, with 99.9 percent of results released...

Iran’s president arrived in Pakistan for talks Tuesday with officials mediating negotiations between Tehran and Washington on a permanent end to the war in the Middle East, even as discrepancies emerged on what had been agreed so far and violence broke out again in Lebanon. President Masoud...

Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip have killed 1,005 Palestinians since a ceasefire was reached between Israel and the militant group Hamas last October, the Gaza Health Ministry said Wednesday. The enclave has seen near-daily strikes, as well as shelling and gunfire along the boundary that...

Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels are willing to seek peace with whoever wins Sunday's presidential runoff but are also confident they can survive a renewed military offensive promised by the right-wing frontrunner. Colombians will choose a successor to leftist President Gustavo Petro...