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This month marks 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement largely ended bloodshed that left 3,600 people dead, some 50,000 wounded and thousands bereaved. Northern Ireland is observing the anniversary with a reunion of key peace process players and a visit from US President Joe Biden. The peace...

French judges have ordered three senior members of the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad to stand trial for collusion in crimes against humanity over the deaths of two French Syrian men. The order, signed last Wednesday, says the three senior al-Assad advisers are charged with complicity in...

The war crimes trial of former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci began on Monday at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague, Netherlands. Thaci, who served as commander-in-chief of the ethnic Albanian rebel Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and three other former KLA heads, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi...

The French parliament has recognized as “genocide” the 1930s starvation of millions in Ukraine under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, a move welcomed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In a resolution adopted by 168 votes to 2, the legislators called on the French government to do the same as the current...

The British government pushed its contentious migration bill forward in Parliament on Monday, despite a call from Europe’s top human rights organization for lawmakers to block the legislation. The Illegal Migration Bill would bar asylum claims by anyone who reaches the UK by unauthorized means, and...

The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on Iran’s Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution and 8 officials, including judges, lawmakers, and clerics accused of links to the security crackdown on protesters. The protests began after the September 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini following her...

Russian authorities on Tuesday raided the homes and offices of multiple human rights advocates and historians with the prominent rights group Memorial that won the Nobel Peace Prize last year. The wave of searches, after which police took Memorial activists in for questioning, is part of a steady...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) said Friday that it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine. The move was immediately dismissed by Moscow—and welcomed by Ukraine as a...

Russia has committed wide-ranging war crimes in Ukraine, including the forced deportations of children in areas it controls, a report from a United Nations-backed inquiry says. Among potential crimes against humanity, investigators cited repeated attacks targeting Ukrainian infrastructure in recent...

The United Nations remains committed to helping rival Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots reach an agreement to bridge the island nation’s ethnic rift, a senior UN official said Wednesday. The problem has been a source of instability in the east Mediterranean for decades. UN Under-Secretary-General...