The OPCW has called on President Bashar al-Assad to pick up momentum in handing over Syria’s remaining chemicals for destruction.
The Hague international war crimes court has found Thomas Lubanga Dyilo guilty in its first ruling after a decade of work.
Tension in Indonesia’s formerly war-torn province of Aceh has escalated ahead of April’s parliamentary elections, with 16 people killed.
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An early winter cold spell brought heavy snowfall to parts of Europe over the weekend, paralysing public transport and roadways, toppling trees and cutting electricity to tens of thousands of households. Several people died in car crashes caused by the freezing weather conditions.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) accused Uganda of massacring tens of thousands of civilians and plundering its rich natural resources at the start of two weeks of legal arguments at the United Nations’s highest legal body on Monday. The DRC is asking the UN court to order the withdrawal of Ugandan troops from its land.
A team of investigators from the International Criminal Court (ICC) is ready to deploy to Sudan’s Darfur region to evaluate war crimes, following passage of a United Nations Security Council resolution giving the tribunal jurisdiction, officials said. In a hard-negotiated compromise, the United States was one of four countries to abstain.
The International Criminal Court was gearing up on Thursday for a possible war crimes investigation in Sudan’s violence-plagued Darfur region — an important case that could confirm the fledgling tribunal’s legitimacy. The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote on Thursday on a resolution that would authorise the prosecution of war crimes suspects