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Somalia plans to ratify a global treaty aimed at protecting children, leaving the United States as the only country outside the pact, UNICEF said on Friday. Somalia and the United States have long been the last hold-outs to the Convention o...
Airplanes and a ship of a European counter-piracy operation intercepted a group of suspected Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean on Wednesday.
The International Criminal Court's (ICC) management body welcomed on Wednesday the United States' first-ever attendance of one of its meetings as a sign of changing policy.
Rwandan Hutu rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, whose chief and deputy were arrested Tuesday in Germany, are weakened by military operations against them but remain a threat.
Two leading Rwandan Hutu rebels were arrested in Germany on Tuesday on suspicion of crimes against humanity and war crimes this year and in 2008 in DR Congo, prosecutors said. The pair, Ignace Murwanashyaka, 46, and Straton Musoni, 48, are...
German prosecutors charged on Tuesday a 90-year-old former member of Hitler's SS with 58 counts of murder over a massacre of Jewish forced labourers in the final weeks of World War II.
The United States wants Kenya to hand over a Rwanda genocide suspect it believes the east African nation has been harbouring for years, President Barack Obama's war crimes envoy said on Monday.
The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) appeals chamber has acquitted a Rwandan leader who was sentenced to 20 years in prison over the 1994 genocide because of shortcomings in the evidence. The Appeals Chamber r...
Two Somalis suspected of being part of a pirate gang which hijacked a Spanish fishing boat and its crew in the Indian Ocean could be tried in Spain within a month, judicial sources said on Monday.
A call for greater international cooperation in the capture, prosecution and transfer of suspected war criminals has been issued by international justice prosecutors from around the globe.
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