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Settler terrorists supported by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government are committing ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, Ed Miliband has said, in the UK’s starkest condemnation since the foundation of the Israeli state. Andy Burnham, the prime minister, said he would “not stand by” as horrific suffering...

Nicaragua has urged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to allow its case against Germany to continue, saying its arms exports to Israel violate the 1948 Genocide Convention and humanitarian law, as they were used in the genocidal war on Gaza. The appeal came on Tuesday as public hearings on...

A UN expert said on ‌Monday that Israeli clearance of rubble in Gaza could destroy valuable evidence of "atrocity crimes" and prevent the recovery of human remains. Israel's assault on Gaza — started after the deadly raid into Israel by Hamas in October 2023 — has generated around 61 million tons of...

Ratko Mladić, a Serbian general convicted of orchestrating the worst massacre in Europe since the second world war, has been given a hero’s funeral attended by thousands in Belgrade despite international alarm. Known as the “Butcher of Bosnia” for his role during the Balkans genocide in the 1990s...

Kosovo’s Special Prosecution announced on Friday that it has filed an indictment charging 35 suspects with involvement in the murder of 26 civilians at the compound of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Adem Jashari in the village of Prekaz in Skenderaj/Srbica in March 1998. The Balkan...

Russia bombarded the Ukrainian capital for more than 12 hours overnight and into Tuesday, killing at least a dozen people in another aerial onslaught that authorities said was aimed at menacing civilians. The strikes marked an unprecedented sixth straight day of heavy Russian attacks on Kyiv since...

At least one person was killed and another 15 injured in a car bomb attack on a police station on the outskirts of Cucuta, the capital of Norte de Santander. According to the National Police, the bomb exploded on Monday evening outside of the police station in Los Patios, a municipality that is part...

Two reports investigating the forcible contraception of thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland by Danish health authorities for decades were split over whether the practice constituted genocide. The Greenlandic government, which commissioned the inquiry, released the reports Friday but...

A Dutch court has sentenced a Rwandan man to life in prison for his role in the murder of thousands during the 1994 genocide in the Central African country. The Hague district court found Eugene N guilty of war crimes and genocide on Friday, and issued the sentence. Judges called his conduct a...

Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces besieged the Bosnian capital for several years in the 1990s and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, died Thursday while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He was 84. Mladic died at a...