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U.S. prosecutors unveiled sweeping new criminal charges against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday, accusing him and his wife of heading a state-sponsored system of repression responsible for beating, asphyxiating, and delivering electric shocks to scores of victims, including...

Hundreds of people attended a mass funeral for 105 Palestinians killed in a devastating Israeli attack on Gaza City in October 2023. Family members of the victims performed funeral prayers over the remains, which were wrapped in Palestinian flags, before they were taken to Martyrs Cemetery in the...

A judge on Monday sentenced in absentia 11 commanders of Colombia’s largest remaining rebel group to prison for recruiting 60 children as young as 8 into their ranks between 2004 and 2018. The commanders of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, were found guilty of recruiting boys and girls between...

From a detailed multi-perspectival drawing of reindeer to written accounts of belief systems and childbirth, Johan Turi’s work offers unparalleled insight into his life as a Sami person living in northern Sweden at the start of the 20th century. In the face of racist discrimination, land disputes...

A 105-year-old man is under investigation on suspicion of being an accessory to multiple murders at a Nazi prisoner of war camp, German prosecutors have said. The case, which is being handled by the public prosecutor’s office in Dortmund, centers on the Stalag 326 VI K camp in western Germany, in...

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted rebel commander Mahamat Said Abdel Kani on Wednesday of crimes against humanity for abusing and torturing prisoners at a detention facility in the Central African Republic. Said, wearing blue jeans and a sweater, remained expressionless for...

A former Rwandan official has appeared in a court in the United Kingdom after being charged with ordering six killings during the first week of the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Vincent Brown, a 65-year-old doctor formerly known as Vincent Bajinya, is the first ⁠person to be charged in Britain over the...

A Sri Lankan court found 15 men guilty on Tuesday of involvement in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed more than 260 people and wounded about 500. The April 21 attacks targeted three churches and three hotels across the island nation during Easter services and celebrations. The Islamic...

An Islamic State group member was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 years in prison for aiding the terrorist organization that took credit for a suicide bombing that killed 13 US service members and about 160 Afghans at the Kabul airport five years ago during the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from...

Demonstrators in Pristina against the verdict convicting four former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leaders of war crimes resumed their protest at around noon on Thursday after continuing until around midnight on Wednesday, the day the judgment was handed down in The Hague. The KLA Veterans’...