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Tehran will "use all available tools" to respond to Israel's weekend attack on military targets in Iran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday. Iran previously played down Israel's air attack on Saturday, saying it caused only limited damage, while U.S. President Joe...

The UN human rights chief has said the Gaza war's “darkest moment” is unfolding in the north of the territory, where Israel has said it is carrying out a ground offensive to stop Hamas fighters from regrouping. “As we speak, the Israeli military is subjecting an entire population to bombing, siege...

Justice Department attorneys wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland this week, calling out the “glaring gap” between the department’s approach to crimes committed by Russia and Hamas — versus the department’s silence on potential crimes committed by Israeli forces and civilians. The four-page...

Bagladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Sunday ordered jail authorities to produce 14 political leaders, a retired Supreme Court judge, five former police officers, and a dismissed army officer before it. The three-member tribunal, led by its chairman Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder...

President Biden apologized Friday for Native American boarding schools that were part of U.S. policy for 150 years and stripped children away from their tribes and culture.   “The federal government has never, never formally apologized for what happened, until today. I formally apologize as...

The International Crimes Division of Uganda’s High Court (ICD) has sentenced former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel commander Thomas Kwoyelo to 40 years in jail over war crimes and crimes against humanity. The sentence was delivered Friday by a four-member panel of judges of the ICD sitting at...

Mozambique's ruling party, Frelimo, has won the country's divisive, violence-marred election, extending its 49-year grip on power in the southern African nation, according to official results.  Daniel Chapo, Frelimo's relatively unknown presidential candidate, seen as an agent of change, will...

A senior UN official in Sudan says she is deeply troubled by reports of "atrocious crimes" in the central Gezira state, including the mass killing of civilians by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Clementine Nkweta-Salami's comments came after an activist group said that at least 124...

The international criminal court’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, has been accused of misconduct towards a member of his office, the court’s governing body has said. The unspecified allegation, which Khan said there is “no truth to”, comes as a panel of judges at the ICC considers applications for arrest...

The International Criminal Court on Wednesday said it would sentence in November a Malian jihadist police chief convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Timbuktu. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, 46, was found guilty in June of crimes including torture and...