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A solemn peace march has been held through forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II. The annual 100 km (62 mile) march held on Saturday retraces a route taken by thousands of men and boys from the Bosniak ethnic group...

Russia has brought some 700,000 children from the conflict zones in Ukraine into Russian territory, Grigory Karasin, head of the international committee in the Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament, said late on Sunday. "In recent years, 700,000 children have found refuge with us...

An international center opened Monday in The Hague to support nations already building cases against senior Russian leaders for the crime of aggression resulting from the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine is the...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday called the shooting dead of a 17-year-old by police during a traffic stop near Paris "inexcusable" in rare criticism of law enforcement hours after the incident triggered unrest. A police officer is being investigated for voluntary homicide for shooting...

The Netherlands and Belgium have joined an international investigation into atrocities committed against the Yazidi minority in Syria and Iraq, the European Union’s judicial cooperation agency said Monday. The Joint Investigation Team was established by France and Sweden in October 2021 and...

A German court has jailed a woman for more than nine years for enslaving a Yazidi woman, as well as aiding and abetting war crimes and genocide as a member of ISIL (ISIS). The 37-year-old German defendant, identified only as Nadine K, was also found guilty of crimes against humanity and membership...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called out Russia on Thursday for killing 136 children in Ukraine in 2022, adding its armed forces to a global list of offenders, according to a report to the UN Security Council seen by Reuters. The United Nations also verified that Russian armed...

The Netherlands and Canada have submitted a case against Syria to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over allegations of torture. Their application accuses the Syrian government of committing "countless violations of international law" since the country's civil war began in 2011. "Syrian...

Once again, the war in Ukraine is affecting the country's culture. Flooding following the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam has destroyed significant archaeological sites. Churches, monuments, and museums are submerged all over the Kherson region. Archaeological sites dating back to the Scythians — a...

Six Swiss police officers have appeared in court accused of homicide in the case of a 2018 death of a Black man from a heart attack as he was being arrested. A courtroom in the Swiss municipality of Renens on Monday heard allegations against six police officers accused of "homicide through...