• Turkey's deputy Prime Minister apologises for crackdown

    Turkey’s deputy prime minister has offered an apology in an effort to appease anti-government protesters, as they stormed the street for the fifth consecutive day.

  • Clashes between Hezbollah and Syrian rebels

    Fighting has erupted in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Syrian rebels, leaving at least 15 people dead.
    Lebanese media reported that Hezbollah fighters were preparing to launch rockets when they were attacked by the Syrian rebels.

  • US urges Turkish officials to refrain from violence

    The Obama administration voiced concern over Turkey’s crackdown on protestors and urged Turkish authorities to exercise restraint.

  • U.S. man extradited to Bosnia

    An American man was extradited to Bosnia-Herzegovina to be tried for war crimes committed in the 1990s.

    Accusations against Sulejman Mujagic of New York include torture of one prisoner and the slaying of another, an unarmed enemy soldier.

  • House of Lords hit by lobbying scandals

    Three members of the House of Lords have been suspended after they agreed to do parliamentary work for money.

    Undercover journalists of the Sunday Times filmed Ulster Unionist Lord Laird and Labour's Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate and Lord Cunningham, offering to help a fake company.

  • Mugabe to hold elections by end of July
    Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, will hold elections by the end of July, reported the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation on Sunday.

    On Friday, a constitutional court ruled that parliamentary and presidential polls must take place before 31st July, and a date must be fixed by 29th June.
  • Libya to appeal against ICC bid rejection

    Libyan officials announced today that it will appeal to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to reverse its decision to prosecute Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, a son of the country’s leader Muammar Gaddafi.

  • Ethiopian protesters demand release of political leaders and journalists

    Over 10,000 Ethiopians staged an anti-government demonstration today  in the first large-scale protest in almost 8 years.

  • Khmer Rouge leaders apologise for atrocities

    Former leaders of the Khmer Rouge, who are now facing trial for charges of genocide in Cambodia, have expressed their regret over atrocities committed by the regime during their trial this week.

  • ICC rejects Libyan trial for Saif Gaddafi

    The International Criminal Court's pre-trial chamber has ruled that Libya is not ready to try Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam.

  • China slams US call for Tiananmen accountability
    China slammed US calls for accountability to those killed during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, accusing the US "prejudice".

    In a statement the US State Department urged China to "end harassment of those who participated in the protests and fully account for those killed, detained, or missing."
  • Tiananmen mothers condemn failure to launch political reform
    Mothers of victims of China's Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 slammed the President Xi Jinping for failing to launch political reform stating that he was taking China "backwards towards Maoist Orthodoxy".

    Demanding justice for those that were killed by China's state forces, the group of mothers published an open letter via Human Rights Watch, arguing that hope for political reform had descended into despair.
  • Tutu calls on UEFA to ban Israel from hosting Under-21 Championship

    In a letter to The Guardian, Desmond Tutu and a group of politicians, actors, playwrights and sports personalities, urged UEFA not to hold the Under-21 European Championship in Israel.

  • Eritrean diplomat expelled from Canada

    The head of the Eritrean consulate in Toronto has been ordered to leave Canada after breaching UN sanctions.

    Semere Ghebremariam Micael is alleged to have demanded a 2% “diaspora tax” and “national defence fees” from Eritreans in the country, in violation of Canadian law and the sanctions imposed on Eritrea by the UN.

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