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The European Union warned Serbia and Kosovo on Monday that they are on the edge of a precipice and must resolve their dispute over vehicle license plates before next week or face the prospect of a return to their violent past. Long-simmering tensions between Serbia and its former province mounted in...

The EU froze the assets of 19 people—including Investment and Foreign Economic Relations Minister, the chief justice at Myanmar’s supreme court, top military brass, and businesspeople linked to the armed forces—and banned them from traveling in Europe. The 27-nation bloc also froze the assets in...

British forces have paid compensation for the deaths of 64 children in Afghanistan, a toll four times higher than the 16 child deaths publicly acknowledged by the Ministry of Defense, according to a new report. Action on Armed Violence, a United Kingdom-based charity, found that the British...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the UK and Mauritius to center the Chagossian people in upcoming negations. The UK announced on November 3, 2022, that it was open to reaching an agreement with Mauritius on the future of the Chagos Islands. HRW called for full reparations for the Chagossian...

Armenia and Azerbaijan held peace talks on Monday, mediated by the United States, just hours after a fresh shootout along their troubled border in a conflict which has left hundreds dead in recent months. An American official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the meeting was less about peace...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has held high-level talks in Tehran after a trilateral meeting with Russian and Azerbaijani leaders on fighting in the Caucasus region. Pashinyan was officially received by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday morning, and the two held talks at the...

The findings of the research, which was published last week, revealed that half of the 900 sexual abuse cases that the Kosovo Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims (KRCT) has documented were committed in what it called “rape houses,” where women were temporarily held to be assaulted, and that in...

Russian forces were responsible for the “vast majority” of human rights violations in northern Ukraine during the early weeks of the war, including attacks on civilians that qualify as war crimes, the United Nations has found. In a report published last Tuesday, the three members of the Independent...

The Kosovar prosecutors’ office on Tuesday said an ethnic Serb accused of killing ethnic Albanians in 1999 was arrested in Hungary. A statement said the Serb man identified as S.S. was arrested in the Hungarian capital Budapest based on an international arrest warrant. He is suspected of taking part...

The petition, involving a 300-page dossier of evidence, asks for a formal acknowledgement and apology for abuses during the period of British rule in Palestine from 1917 until 1948, after which Britain rapidly withdrew and the State of Israel was declared. It is being brought by Munib al-Masri, 88...