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Russia took weeks to present Ukraine with a “memorandum” setting out its conditions for a ceasefire, as well as key guidelines for a comprehensive treaty to end the more than three-year-old war. Russia offered Ukraine a choice of two options for establishing a 30-day ceasefire. One option is that...

Journalists in Northern Ireland routinely face attacks and death threats from paramilitary and organized crime groups that act with impunity, according to Amnesty International. Reporters have been physically assaulted and told they will be shot, stabbed, raped or blown up, making Northern Ireland...

The House of Representatives in Bosnia’s Federation entity parliament amended the Criminal Code to formally recognise gender-based murder as a distinct crime. The changes still need to be confirmed by the other chamber, the House of Peoples. The amended law classifies the gender-based killing of a...

Hundreds of lawyers have called on the U.K. government to use "all available means" to stop the fighting in Gaza, including reviewing trade ties with Israel and imposing sanctions and travel bans on Israeli ministers. Some 828 UK-based or qualified legal experts, among them former Supreme Court...

Crowds of far-right Israelis chanted insults and assaulted Palestinians during an annual parade for Jerusalem Day. Chants of "death to Arabs" and nationalistic slogans were repeated during the event, which commemorates Israeli forces taking Palestinian-majority East Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab...

Britain signed an agreement handing sovereignty over the contested and strategically located Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a move the government says ensures the future of a U.S.-U.K. military base that is vital to British security. The Indian Ocean archipelago is home to a strategically important...

The British government suspended free trade talks with Israel and hit West Bank settlers with sanctions, hours after vowing “concrete actions” if Israel didn’t stop its new military offensive in Gaza. Pressure from close allies is mounting on Israel following a nearly three-month blockade of...

Kyiv’s European allies slapped new sanctions on Moscow, a day after a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to produce a breakthrough on ending the 3-year-old war in Ukraine. “We have made clear again and again that we simply expect one thing from...

An Australian man who was captured by Russian forces while fighting alongside Ukraine has been sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security prison, Russian-installed prosecutors have said. Oscar Jenkins, 33, was convicted in a Russian-controlled court in occupied eastern Ukraine of fighting in an...

Pjeter Shala, known during wartime by the nom de guerre Commander Wolf, launched his appeal on Thursday and Friday at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague against a guilty verdict for the arbitrary detention and torture of at least 18 wartime detainees and the murder of one prisoner. The...