The UN-backed Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic has begun the trial in absentia of former president François Bozizé over allegations of crimes against humanity committed during his rule. The
by Our Correspondent in Colombo The United States has confirmed that it was responsible for the devastating submarine attack that sank the Iranian naval warship IRIS Dena off the southern coast of
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U.S. Marines opened fire on demonstrators during the storming of the U.S. consulate in Karachi over the weekend, according to two American officials, marking a rare and potentially explosive use of force
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Editor’s Note: Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith are among the most influential contemporary American legal scholars writing on executive power, constitutional structure, and the law of the presidency. Bauer, a Professor of
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A senior military officer has told an independent inquiry that a cover-up of potential war crimes committed by UK special forces in Afghanistan appeared to stem from a “conscious decision” by the
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“If you had been here on that day and at that hour, if you had seen the hell that opened up on Earth before our eyes, if you had even a glimpse
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War is a business. So is genocide. The latest report submitted by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, lists 48 corporations and institutions, including Palantir Technologies Inc., Lockheed Martin, Alphabet Inc.,
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“The black will take no other hue.The devils will not heed scripture.Let justice not be a dream deferred.” On 27 May 2025, Bangladesh’s Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of the so-called
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A new report by Amnesty International has accused the Rwandan-backed March 23 Movement (M23) of committing war crimes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), including unlawful killings, torture, enforced disappearances, and
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Fifty years after the chaotic evacuation of Saigon, retired U.S. Army Colonel Stuart Herrington still wrestles with the guilt of leaving 420 desperate Vietnamese behind on the roof of the American embassy.
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A trove of leaked documents has unveiled a covert operation exposing the Turkish defence industry’s deep involvement in Sudan’s brutal civil war, revealing how weapons manufactured by Turkey’s largest arms firm, Baykar,
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