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French lawyers have submitted a request to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for an investigation into the role of French officials "in the commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide" by Israeli forces against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. In a 56...

A ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia appeared shaky but remained in place Tuesday as tensions lingered despite a truce agreement to end deadly border clashes following economic pressure from the U.S. The ceasefire reached in Malaysia was supposed to take effect at midnight on Monday, but was...

The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court struck down a colonial-era law in St. Lucia that criminalized gay sex in a ruling Tuesday celebrated by activists in the largely conservative region. The court found that the island’s so-called buggery and gross indecency laws were unconstitutional. Raise Your...

The Netherlands has banned two far-right Israeli ministers from entering the country and the European Union has proposed suspending Israel from a lucrative tech investment program as frustration mounts over worsening conditions in Gaza. The ban targets hard-line National Security Minister Itamar Ben...

The U.K. will recognize a Palestinian state in September unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza, allows the U.N. to bring in aid and takes other steps toward long-term peace, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Tuesday. Starmer, who is under mounting domestic pressure over the issue as scenes of...

Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an “immediate and unconditional” ceasefire after talks in Malaysia that aimed to halt the worst fighting between the neighboring countries in more than a decade. At least 35 people have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced by fighting that erupted on the...

A Colombian court has found the country’s former president Álvaro Uribe guilty of witness tampering. The 73-year-old, who served as president from 2002 to 2010, was convicted of trying to persuade witnesses to lie for him in a separate investigation. He faces a 12-year prison sentence in a case that...

Philippine troops killed seven communist guerrillas in an offensive Sunday in a central province and were pursuing several others in the latest flare-up of the decades-long insurgency that the military says is on the brink of collapse. Army forces killed two New People’s Army guerrillas in a clash...

A notorious paramilitary group and its allies in Sudan have formed a parallel government in areas under the group’s control, which are mainly in the western region of Darfur where allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity are being investigated. The move, which was announced Saturday...

Islamic State-backed rebels attacked a Catholic church in eastern Congo, killing at least 34 people, according to a local civil society leader. Dieudonne Duranthabo, a civil society coordinator in Komanda, in the Ituri province, said that the attackers stormed the church in Komanda town at around 1...