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"Today the terrorist groups, emboldened by their success in the regions, are seeking new grounds," Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Tuesday, the second day of the Accra Initiative security conference. He warned that the situation "threatens to engulf the entire West Africa region." West...

British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has told his family in a letter that he has ended a seven-month hunger strike in prison in Egypt. "At one level, a very basic level, [I am] relieved. But at another level I am even more worried," said Mona Seif, Abdel Fattah's sister. "Alaa...

The resolution approved at UN headquarters in New York asks that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) "urgently" weigh in on Israel's "prolonged occupation, settlement and annexation of the Palestinian territory," which it said were violating the Palestinians' right to self-determination. Israel...

Israel's Defense Minister has said Israel will not cooperate with any external investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, one of the most prominent journalists reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the past two decades. The U.S. Federal Bureau of...

A group of four widows who had sought to hold Shell liable for damages in the Netherlands after their anti-oil activist husbands were executed by the Nigerian government in 1995 have cancelled further legal proceedings, their lawyer said on Monday. "Obviously this is not without disappointment and...

A Paris court has made history in convicting a former Liberian rebel commander for complicity in crimes against humanity under the principle of “universal jurisdiction." Kunti Kamara was also found guilty acts of barbarity, including torture, cannibalism, and forced labour during the country’s first...

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday ruled that prosecutor Karim Khan can resume his investigations into atrocities in Afghanistan, a probe that had been put on hold for more than two years. According to the ruling, published by the ICC, the judges said the investigation could...

Former Australian Army lawyer David McBride is being prosecuted for allegedly leaking a cache of documents to the ABC that informed a series on alleged war crimes in Afghanistan and led to a much-publicized federal police raid on the ABC’s Sydney offices in 2019. Two experts were set to support...

Experts with the UN’s top human rights body on Thursday decried Israel’s occupation of territories Palestinians seek for their future state, saying it was “unlawful under international law” and increasingly entrenched. The experts, members of a special commission, also appealed to the International...

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...