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A Gambian court has sentenced former intelligence chief Yankuba Badji and four other members of the intelligence service to death for the killing of a political activist Ebrima Solo Sandeng during the rule of former strongman Yahya Jammeh. The country has observed a moratorium on the death penalty...

A former Iranian official has been sentenced to life in prison by a Swedish court after being convicted of committing grave war crimes and murder during the final phase of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. The Stockholm District Court on Thursday said that Hamid Noury took part in severe atrocities in...

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has said his office would investigate reports of a mass grave in central Israel containing the bodies of Egyptian commandos who were killed during the 1967 Middle East war. Lapid’s office said on Sunday that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi had brought up the...

Thousands of people joined a peace march on Friday through forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II. The 100-kilometre (60-mile) march traces a route taken by men and boys from the Bosniak ethnic group, which is made...

The family of Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) murdered independence hero Patrice Lumumba has buried his only known remains, a tooth, in the capital Kinshasa, 61 years after his death at the hands of Belgian-backed secessionist rebels. Lumumba was killed by a firing squad on January 16, 1961, in...

A German court has handed a five-year jail sentence to a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person so far to go on trial for complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust. Josef Schuetz was found guilty of being an accessory to murder while working as a prison guard at the...

Priceless artifacts removed and looted from African nations during Germany’s colonial period will be permanently returned, officials said. The Berlin-based Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which manages the German capital’s many museums, said it had entered into negotiations on the returns of...

Relatives of 46 people who disappeared in the Hadzici area after being detained by Bosnian Serb forces during the war in 1992 rallied outside the state prosecutor’s office, calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. No one has been prosecuted over the disappearances so far. In 2009, the...

The coffin of slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba returned to his home on Wednesday for an emotionally charged tour and burial, more than six decades after his assassination. A plane took Lumumba’s mortal remains—a tooth that ex-colonial power Belgium handed over to his family on...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said that Albania is preparing a resolution against the 2010 report that accused Kosovo’s former president of war crimes, which will be submitted to the Council of Europe. During a joint meeting on Monday in Pristina between the governments of Kosovo and Albania...