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February 23, 2019

World Court to rule in Chagos islands row

The UN’ top court will hand down its view Monday in a bitter dispute between Britain and Mauritius over the fate of the Chagos islands, home to key UK and US military base. Judges at the International Court of Justice…
February 23, 2019

World Court to rule in Chagos islands row

The UN’ top court will hand down its view Monday in a bitter dispute between Britain and Mauritius over the fate of the Chagos islands, home to key UK and US military base. Judges at the International Court of Justice…
February 22, 2019

UN judges to rule on Karadzic appeal of war crimes conviction next month

UN judges will rule next month on the appeal of convicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic, sentenced to 40 years in jail including genocide for his role in Bosnia’s 1990s war. The appeal ruling, before the Hague-based International Residual Mechanism for…
February 22, 2019

UN judges to rule on Karadzic appeal of war crimes conviction next month

UN judges will rule next month on the appeal of convicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic, sentenced to 40 years in jail including genocide for his role in Bosnia’s 1990s war. The appeal ruling, before the Hague-based International Residual Mechanism for…
February 20, 2019

War crimes court joins cases of CAR militiamen

The International Criminal Court in The Hague said Wednesday it will combine the cases of two ex-militiamen, including senior football official Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona, for war crimes allegedly committed in the Central African Republic (CAR). Ngaissona and Alfred Yekatom stand accused…
February 20, 2019

IS teen ‘shocked’ after UK revokes her citizenship

A British teen who joined the Islamic State group in Syria said Wednesday she was shocked by a government decision to revoke her citizenship and was considering applying to settle in The Netherlands, the homeland of her husband. Shamima Begum,…
February 20, 2019

Three AFP photographers nominated for World Press Photo Awards

Photographers for Agence France-Presse received four nominations Wednesday in the 2019 World Press Photo of the Year Award, with the winners to be announced at a gala event in April. Kinshasa-based photographer John Wessels received two nominations in the General…
February 19, 2019

Pakistan accuses Indian on death row of ‘terrorism’ at UN court

An Indian man on death row in Pakistan for alleged spying committed “terrorist acts” including targeted killings and kidnappings on New Delhi’s orders “to create anarchy”, Islamabad’s lawyers told the UN’s top court on Tuesday. On the second day of…
February 19, 2019

Pakistan tells UN court Indian on death row is a ‘terrorist’

An Indian man on death row in Pakistan for alleged spying committed “terrorist acts” including targeted killings and kidnappings on New Delhi’s orders “to create anarchy”, Islamabad’s lawyers told UN’s top court on Tuesday. Islamabad’s lawyers opened their case on…

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