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Thousands of people have gathered in Serbia’s capital in the biggest protest yet over this month’s parliamentary and municipal elections, accusing President Aleksandar Vucic’s governing party of orchestrating a fraud and asking the results be annulled. The large rally in central Belgrade on Saturday...
The 11 suspects were charged with committing crimes against humanity in 1992 for their involvement in the unlawful detention and inhumane treatment of around 700 Bosniak men and boys, some of whom were killed. The Bosnian state prosecution charged Vidoje Blagojevic, Ivan Arapovic, Milan Arapovic...
Russian authorities have put on hold two hearings for jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny. A United Nations rights expert earlier expressed concern about the dissident's "enforced disappearance." Russian court filings showed that two court hearings for opposition politician Alexei Navalny...
The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to demand a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza in a strong demonstration of global support for ending the Israel-Hamas war. The vote—which comes days after the United States vetoed a resolution in the Security Council to the same effect—also shows...
Russia's second missile assault on Kyiv this week injured at least 53 people, damaging homes and a children's hospital, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pleaded for more help for his country. Ukraine's air defense systems downed all 10 ballistic missiles that...
The UN human rights chief urged countries on Monday to work together to defeat threats such as war and pollution at an event to mark 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that risks being overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas conflict. Ministers, diplomats, and activists attended the...
Armenia and Azerbaijan have said they will exchange prisoners of war and work toward normalizing their relations, in a move welcomed by the European Union and the United States. The two countries have been locked in a decades-long conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, which Azerbaijan reclaimed after a...
The Bosnian state prosecution said on Monday that it has indicted Ljubomir Vlacic, Vitomir Pepic, Milovan Ognjenovic, Goran Viskovic, Zeljko Dupljanin, Ratko Vujovic, and Vlastimir Golijanin for intentionally providing assistance to members of a joint criminal enterprise involved in the commission...
A Dutch court is set to hear a case accusing the state of complicity in war crimes in Gaza due to its supply of components for Israeli bombers. Launched by human rights organizations against The Netherlands, the case, which opens on Monday, says that the Dutch state is complicit in the alleged war...
Ukraine has launched an investigation into the “execution” of its unarmed soldiers by Russian forces despite the soldiers signaling their intention to surrender. Kyiv accused Russia on Sunday of committing a “war crime” after a short video posted on Telegram on Saturday showed the two men coming out...