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National Museum Wales has announced two new artist commissions which will reframe the legacy of a Welsh officer of the British Army who fought in the Napoleonic Wars, Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton. Picton was a sitting Member of Parliament at the time of his death in 1815 with a far-reaching...

The European Union pledged a one-billion-euro aid package for Afghanistan, “to avert a major humanitarian and socioeconomic collapse,” at a virtual G20 summit hosted by Italy. President of the European Commission Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen has said EU countries have a “moral duty” to help Afghans...

On the 80th anniversary of the massacre at the Babyn Yar, the Crystal Wall of Crying, a modern art installation is unveiled. The tech-heavy approach to advertise the installation including online gaming has been criticized by traditionalists who say it dishonors the solemnity of the topic. Ruslan...

A 100-year-old man on trial for his alleged role as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp during World War II, Josef Schuetz, has told a German court he is innocent. Schuetz is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory murder at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. He allegedly worked at...

Based on the principle of universal jurisdiction, German courts and investigators are taking on criminal cases that occurred outside German borders including the genocide of Iraq’s Yazidi minority and torture in Syria’s prisons. According to a Syrian lawyer in Germany Joumana Seif, Syrians have...