In World War I, millions of people fled Germany and millions fled when Germany occupied their countries; in Ukraine, it’s estimated four million will flee; and around the world there are 30 million refugees
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The EU’s leadership team must renew pressure on Libyan authorities to come up with an alternative to this system of arbitrary detention
UN judges sentenced Ratko Mladic to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of war crimes in the brutal Balkans conflicts over two decades ago.
The former Bosnian leader’s legal advisor says he is not guilty of genocide because there is no "evidence" he knew about the massacre.
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Nigeria get their first win at the World Cup finals since 1998, while bundling out Bosnia.
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Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic is expected to stay in hospital for a second day of tests after being taken ill during his war crimes trial.
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/ 12 December 2004
It is possibly Europe’s most gruesome bridge. Its foundations, legend has it, are built on the bodies of murdered twins. For more than four centuries, it has been the scene of beheadings, of slow impalements on its low, stone balustrade, and massacres. Now the bridge is in danger of imminent collapse.