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Lawmakers in the Czech Republic's upper house Senate narrowly voted against ratifying a decade-old international treaty aimed at preventing and combating violence against women. The vote late on January 24, which fell two votes short of ratification, leaves the Czech Republic among the minority of...
Denmark’s defense ministry said it would launch a review after evidence emerged showing its air force participated in airstrikes on Libya that killed 14 civilians in 2011, the first time any of the 10 countries involved in the NATO bombing campaign has acknowledged a possible link to non-combatant...
Spain’s socialist-led coalition government has announced a review of state-run museums to enable them to “move past a colonial framing” of people and the past, and has pledged to fight against political meddling and censorship of the arts. Ernest Urtasun, a member of the leftwing Sumar platform who...
Germany’s top court on Tuesday stripped a neo-Nazi party of the right to public financing and the tax advantages normally extended to political organizations, a decision that could provide a blueprint for government efforts to head off a resurgence of the far right. Although the party, Die Heimat...
Hundreds of people paid their respects on the 25th anniversary of the killing of 45 Kosovo Albanian civilians by Serbian forces in Recak/Racak—a massacre that helped spark NATO’s military action against Yugoslavia. Recak/Racak was surrounded and attacked by Serbian security forces on the morning of...
France's highest court on January 16 rejected a request by French cement maker Lafarge to dismiss charges of complicity in crimes against humanity as part of an investigation over how it kept its factory running in Syria after war broke out in 2011. The ruling, which upheld an earlier decision by a...
The Bosnian state prosecution announced on Thursday that it has indicted Slobodan Savic, a former guard at the Bosnian Serb-run Military-Investigative Prison in the city of Banja Luka, known as Mali Logor, with committing crimes against civilians and prisoners of war in the period from April 1994 to...
Ukraine and Russia on Wednesday announced their first exchange of prisoners of war in nearly five months, with more than 200 freed by each side after what both said was a complex negotiation involving mediation by the United Arab Emirates. Russia's Defence Ministry said 248 military personnel had...
Russia unleashed its biggest air attack of the war on Ukraine on Friday, killing 31 civilians, wounding more than 160 others and hitting cities and infrastructure across the country, officials said. NATO member Poland said a Russian missile appeared to have flown into its airspace for some 40 km...
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...