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Thousands flooded the streets of Serbia’s capital in a noisy support rally for protesting university students and their monthslong struggle against corruption and for changes in the Balkan country. Belgrade residents organized in five columns from various parts of the city before marching to a key...

The Bosnian state prosecution requested the imposition of measures to stop Vidoje Blagojevic and his four co-defendants – all charged with wartime crimes against civilians in the Zvornik area – from leaving the country. “There is a high risk of flight,” said prosecutor Mersudin Pruzan, citing cases...

In four days of testimony at the Hague trial for former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three co-accused of war crimes, Sylejman Selimi said the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) General Staff “was not functional”. The defense is seeking to prove that the KLA did not have a rigid command structure like...

A court in Stockholm convicted a Swedish woman of genocide, crimes against humanity, and gross war crimes committed in Syria in 2015 against women and children of the Yazidi religious minority, sentencing her to 12 years in prison. The woman, identified as 52-year-old Swedish citizen Lina Ishaq...

Ceremonies marking the National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe took place all over Italy, commemorating the killings and forced exodus of people of Italian descent from the Istria and Dalmatia regions of Croatia and Slovenia towards the end of World War II and after. “Remembering does not mean...

Montenegro’s Special State Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday re-opened four cases of war crimes committed in that country during the 1990s. It announced that criminal cases were being formed in connection with war crimes in Morinj, Bukovica, Kaludjerski laz, and the deportation of refugees from Herceg...

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission has recorded an “alarming rise” in reported executions of Ukrainian soldiers captured by the Russian armed forces during the war in recent months. The mission in Ukraine said it had received reports of 79 executions in 24 separate incidents since the end of...

World leaders and dozens of Holocaust survivors gathered Monday at the former site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland to commemorate the 80th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet troops at the end of World War II. The ceremony is regarded as the likely last major observance of...

According to Ukrainian officials, Russian military drones are swarming the skies over the front-line city of Kherson, carrying out deadly attacks that appear to target civilians. "Since the first day of this year alone, the enemy has attacked the region [with drones] about 650 times," Oleksandr...

A Libyan general wanted for alleged war crimes and violence against inmates at a prison near Tripoli has been arrested in the northern Italian city of Turin – and then released after an apparent mistake by prosecutors. Osama Najim, Libyan general also known as Almasri, was detained on an...