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Europe’s top human rights court delivered damning judgments against Russia in four cases brought by Kyiv and the Netherlands, accusing Moscow of atrocities in Ukraine dating back more than a decade. Judges at the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia was responsible for widespread...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned a Russian drone and missile attack against Ukraine this week that has been described as the largest such assault in the three-year war. Ukrainian officials said Moscow fired more than 500 drones and 11 missiles at the capital Kyiv...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy formally approved plans to set up a new international court to prosecute senior Russian officials for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The special tribunal will be created through an agreement between Ukraine and the Council of Europe, the continent’s top...

Artists in Serbia have criticized the appointment of a nationalist ex-paramilitary chief as the head of the National Theatre board, as the authorities crack down on the culture sector days before an expected new wave of anti-government protests. Dragoslav Bokan, who was announced as the new...

Belarus opposition leader Siarhei Tsikhanouski has been released from prison after five years, his wife Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya said in a post on X. Tsikhanouski, 46, is now in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, a spokesperson for his wife said. Tsikhanouski had planned to run against incumbent Lukashenko...

The Netherlands has officially handed back 119 ancient sculptures stolen from the former Nigerian kingdom of Benin more than 120 years ago during the colonial era. Olugbile Holloway, director-general of Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments, said that the artifacts were the...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made a rare visit to Istanbul to hold talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in what Yerevan described as a “historic” step towards regional peace. The visit was part of the two countries’ efforts to normalize ties strained over historical disputes...

A new prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia has begun, officials in both countries said Monday, with Ukrainian soldiers who have spent nearly the entire duration of the war in captivity among those returning home. The exchange, agreed last week during talks in Turkey, involves detained people...

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...