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Four leading human rights groups have launched a new lawsuit against the Trump administration’s campaign against the International Criminal Court. The new lawsuit filed on Tuesday charges that the administration’s wide-ranging sanctions against the international tribunal and organizations that...

The body that oversees the International Criminal Court has called on Chad and Venezuela to abandon their withdrawals from the institution, warning that their departure risks weakening the global fight against impunity. In a statement issued Friday from The Hague, the Assembly of States Parties said...

More than 300 people who had been kidnapped across Nigeria have been freed in an intelligence and security operation, the government has announced. “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu warmly welcomes the successful rescue of 308 Nigerian citizens who were abducted in different attacks in Niger and Kwara...

On August 4, 2020, at exactly 6:07pm, the history of Beirut was brutally split into two eras. A huge explosion, caused by the ignition of 2,750 tonnes of improperly stored ammonium nitrate, ripped through the Lebanese capital. The blast, widely considered one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in...

Colombia’s outgoing President Gustavo Petro on Monday reiterated claims of fraud in the nation’s June election, which his party lost narrowly to conservative leader Abelardo de la Espriella. In an hourlong presentation to journalists, Petro claimed that results from thousands of tally sheets were...

Former Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has been released from prison after the country’s Constitutional Court overturned his 15-year prison sentence for a case linked to a globe-spanning corruption scandal involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. Humala was serving his sentence at a...

A Sri Lankan court has sentenced a former police chief and a former Defense Ministry official to death after finding them guilty of criminal negligence for the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 260 people in 2019. Former Police Chief Pujith Jayasundara and former Defense Ministry Secretary Hemasiri...

Myanmar courts have sentenced nine activists to up to 37 years in prison for participating in a protest that urged the public to boycott last December’s elections. Eight protesters against the military government, including prominent activist Htet Myat Aung, were sentenced to 37 years on Tuesday by...

Chad has joined a growing list of countries as it announced plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The military government declared on Monday that Chad had begun the process to leave the court, which prosecutes war crimes and other violations of humanitarian law and is based...

Venezuela's foreign minister said on Friday the country has formally notified the United Nations of its "irrevocable" decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, which had been conducting a multi-year investigation into members of its armed forces and other officials. The government...