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The Hague-based court in March 2023 issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine and the alleged illegal deportation of children to Russia. Yerevan is now obligated to arrest the Russian leader if he sets foot on its territory. "The ICC Rome Statute...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has rejected much of a case filed by Ukraine that accused Russia of funding separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine a decade ago, saying only that Moscow had failed to investigate alleged breaches. Kyiv had accused Moscow of being a “terrorist state” whose...

Senior leaders from Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) met three times this January in Bahrain, sources with knowledge of the talks said, the first such contact between the two warring sides in nine months of conflict. Unlike previous talks on the war in Sudan, the meetings...

Hamas said on January 30 it was weighing up a new ceasefire proposal in the war with Israel in Gaza, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his forces would not withdraw from the enclave until they had achieved "total victory." The developments came hours after Israeli commandos...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on January 29 that he has proposed the signing of a non-aggression pact to Azerbaijan, pending a comprehensive peace treaty between the arch-foe Caucasus neighbors. Yerevan and Baku have fought two wars—in 2020 and in the 1990s—over the disputed Nagorno...

Kenya is going to push ahead with plans to lead a UN-approved security mission to Haiti, despite a court in Nairobi last week blocking the deployment, Kenyan President William Ruto told Reuters on January 30. The international force is aimed at tackling rampant gang violence in the Caribbean nation...

The World Court ordered Israel on January 26 to prevent acts of genocide against the Palestinians and do more to help civilians, although it stopped short of ordering a ceasefire as requested by the plaintiff South Africa. The court found that there was a case to be heard about whether Palestinian...

Some 569 Rohingya people died or went missing at sea last year—the most since 2014—as they embarked on dangerous boat journeys to Southeast Asia, according to the United Nations refugee agency. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said nearly 4,500 Rohingya people took boats across the Andaman Sea...

One of the EU’s most senior diplomats has criticized the Israeli foreign minister for not properly engaging with a summit in Brussels designed to pave the way for a peace plan in the Middle East. Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, told reporters Israel Katz had come to...

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...