Five environmental activists who helped secure a historic mining ban in El Salvador in 2017 are facing life imprisonment for an alleged civil war-era crime, in a case that has been condemned by UN and legal experts as baseless and politically motivated. 

The United States sanctioned a senior leader of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for “leading efforts” to supply weapons for the 17-month-long war, which has killed more than 20,000 people and wrecked the northeastern African country. 

Zimbabwe’s government is to start distributing $20 million as initial compensation to local Black and foreign white farmers whose land was taken from them during the land invasions more than two decades ago. 

According to the country’s finance minister, the move is part of a broader effort by the government to revive the country’s agricultural sector. 

The United Kingdom has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century. 

The deal – reached after years of negotiations – will see the UK hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. 

The Israeli military has carried out intense bombardment in the Jabalia refugee camp, killing at least 17 people hours after forcing residents in the area to leave again during its third ground assault on the densely populated camp in northern Gaza since launching the war a year ago. 

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday unsealed arrest warrants against six members of a Libyan militia group charged with war crimes. 

In 2023, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said arrest warrants had been issued by court judges for war crimes in Libya since 2011, but these warrants were under seal, so it was not clear who was targeted or what the specific charges were. 

Ukraine has documented evidence related to the execution of 93 Ukrainian prisoners of war, according to a law enforcement official tasked with investigating war crimes related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

Research conducted by the UN human rights office (OHCHR) revealed that 67 nuclear tests performed between 1946 and 1958 by the United States Government in the Marshall Islands left communities displaced and contributed to radioactive land and sea pollution.  

Scores of people including three infants were killed in a gang attack in central Haiti, the United Nations Human Rights Office said in a statement on Friday. 

Members of the Gran Grif gang used automatic rifles to kill at least 70 people, including 10 women and three infants, according to the UN. 

Authorities in Ukraine have launched an investigation into what they said was the apparent summary execution by Russian troops of 16 Ukrainian soldiers who had surrendered on the eastern frontline. 

Moscow did not immediately comment on the accusations. The Kremlin denies that Russia commits war crimes in Ukraine.