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President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on two more judges from the International Criminal Court (ICC) over their involvement in the court's case against Israel, ratcheting up Washington's pressure campaign against the war tribunal. In November 2024, ICC judges issued...

Top European officials have agreed to launch an international commission to compensate Kyiv for hundreds of billions of dollars in damage from Russia’s continuing war on Ukraine. The International Claims Commission for Ukraine, established in a treaty signed by 35 countries at Tuesday’s conference...

Mass protests have filled the streets of several Romanian cities for a fifth day in a row against alleged judicial corruption. Thousands took to the streets of the capital Bucharest and other cities on Sunday to show support for judges and prosecutors that denounced systemic abuse in the judicial...

Bulgaria’s government has resigned following weeks of street protests against its economic policies and its perceived failure to tackle corruption. Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov announced the resignation of his cabinet in a televised statement on Thursday, minutes before parliament had been due to...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced a former leader of the Janjaweed militia to 20 years in prison for committing atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, 76, also known as Ali Kushayb, was sentenced on Tuesday following his conviction in October for war...

Russia has launched one of its largest aerial assaults of the war on Ukrainian cities and infrastructure, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signaled progress in talks with the United States on ending the war. Russia deployed 653 drones and 51 missiles in the overnight barrage that began on...

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday demanded by a wide margin that Russia immediately and unconditionally return all Ukrainian children who have been forcibly transferred or deported since the start of the war. The draft resolution during the emergency special session was approved surpassing the...

Thousands of people on Sunday joined protest marches in Croatia against a surging far right following a spate of incidents that have fueled both ethnic and political tensions in the European Union country. Gatherings dubbed “United against fascism” were organized in four major cities, including the...

An ally of separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik was leading the presidential election in the Serb-run half of Bosnia, according to near-complete preliminary results on Monday, as the opposition claimed a major vote fraud. The snap vote on Sunday in Republika Srpska was held after Dodik was...

At least 25 people have been killed, including three children, and nearly 100 wounded in a barrage of Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine. Strikes on the city of Ternopil were the deadliest for weeks and the worst in the west of the country far from the front line since Moscow invaded in...