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Kosovo’s Special Prosecution announced on Friday that it has filed an indictment charging 35 suspects with involvement in the murder of 26 civilians at the compound of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Adem Jashari in the village of Prekaz in Skenderaj/Srbica in March 1998. The Balkan...

Russia bombarded the Ukrainian capital for more than 12 hours overnight and into Tuesday, killing at least a dozen people in another aerial onslaught that authorities said was aimed at menacing civilians. The strikes marked an unprecedented sixth straight day of heavy Russian attacks on Kyiv since...

Two reports investigating the forcible contraception of thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland by Danish health authorities for decades were split over whether the practice constituted genocide. The Greenlandic government, which commissioned the inquiry, released the reports Friday but...

Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces besieged the Bosnian capital for several years in the 1990s and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, died Thursday while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He was 84. Mladic died at a...

The European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, on Tuesday ruled for a second time that Turkey should release the jailed philanthropist and human rights activist Osman Kavala. Judges found that his detention and conviction violated multiple provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights. “The...

Serbia’s Justice Minister Nenad Vujic has once again called for the release of the convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic. On Tuesday, he asked the UN war crimes court in The Hague to consider a new request by the family of the former Bosnian Serb military leader. Vujic made the plea in a letter to...

Bulgaria breached the human rights of dozens of Roma families in Sofia by demolishing their homes without giving them a chance to contest the decision, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday. The government must pay 10,000 euro in damages to each party to the case and reform its...

Russian forces have launched ballistic missile attacks on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, killing at least 16 people and wounding 33, officials said. Explosions rang out across several districts of Kyiv early on Thursday, shaking buildings and setting off car alarms, according to the Kyiv Independent, a...

The intensifying use of drones against civilians and humanitarian workers is a dangerous obstacle for aid operations in Ukraine, the UN's humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, said on Wednesday. Fletcher spoke to The Associated Press in an interview after a visit to the southern city of Kherson, where...

Ukraine’s former Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has called for wartime elections in the biggest internal challenge President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has faced since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in 2022. In a bombshell address posted on YouTube on Tuesday, Fedorov said democracy in Ukraine...