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New videos from Syria spotlight conflict's brutality

2013-05-16 18:05:00

New video surfaced on the Internet on Thursday purporting to show Syrian rebel fighters killing 11 prisoners they accused of taking part in massacres by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. It was the latest of many grisly videos that have...

International court to explore investigating Israeli flotilla raid

2013-05-15 08:19:00

JERUSALEM -- The International Criminal Court will hold a preliminary inquiry to decide whether a full investigation into Israel's deadly 2010 raid on a Turkish ship will be opened, according to a court statement Tuesday.� In May 2010, Israeli naval...

U.N. commissioner warns of possible atrocities in Qusair, Syria

2013-05-10 13:40:00

The United Nations commissioner for human rights on Friday warned of possible atrocities in the Syrian town of Qusair, near the Lebanese border, as reports emerged of a major military buildup. Commissioner Navi Pillay said Syrian government forces and...

Kenya's new president sworn in amid divisions

2013-04-09 09:08:00

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The swearing-in ceremony Tuesday for Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, already one of the country's richest and most powerful men, involved pomp, a 21-gun salute, an old Bible and controversy. A dozen heads of state attended as Kenyatta...

Old animosities thrive in post-Kadafi Libya

2013-04-08 21:09:00

ZINTAN, Libya — The prized scion of Moammar Kadafi is a prisoner of tribesmen in these mountains of scrub and ocher rock. The rebels who captured him after the 2011 civil war that toppled his father have refused to turn him over to the central...

Coup thwarts search for Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony

2013-04-03 10:14:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Uganda's military has suspended its hunt for notorious warlord Joseph Kony after rebels toppled the president of the Central African Republic last month. Kony, indicted by the International Criminal Court on charges of...

Court confirms election of Kenyatta as Kenya's president

2013-03-30 10:49:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The second-place finisher in Kenya’s recent presidential election accepted a unanimous Supreme Court ruling Saturday that his chief rival, Uhuru Kenyatta, was the rightful winner. The court ruled the election was free...

Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda denies war crimes in court

2013-03-26 09:55:00

Standing before the International Criminal Court on Tuesday for the first time, Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda denied he was guilty of a long list of wartime crimes. Ntaganda faces charges of forcing children to fight as soldiers and indirectly...

Rights groups hail surrender of Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda

2013-03-19 10:59:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- In his seven years on the run from international justice, Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda became a symbol of the International Criminal Court's impotence. Now the court, which lacks a police force to arrest those it has...

Charges are dropped against Kenyan suspect

2013-03-11 07:21:00

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The International Criminal Court's prosecutor dropped charges of crimes against humanity against a fellow defendant of Kenya's president-elect Monday, raising questions about whether the case against Uhuru Kenyatta will hold up as he...

Kenyan presidential loser Raila Odinga contests result

2013-03-09 09:26:00

NAIROBI, Kenya -- In a setback for Kenya’s efforts to cement its democracy, presidential contender Raila Odinga on Saturday refused to concede defeat in a close election he said was fraught with fraud and irregularities. But he called for calm and...

Tension in Kenya as election result delayed again

2013-03-08 08:18:00

NAIROBI, Kenya -- As tensions mounted over repeated failures to issue results in Kenya’s tightly fought presidential contest, the election commission Friday said there would be a further delay but promised the announcement later in the evening....

Rwandan-born warlord Bosco Ntaganda is seen during his first appearance before judges of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Ntaganda surrendered last week to face charges including murder, rape and using child soldiers in eastern Congo.

2013-03-26 00:00:00

Congolese ex-militia boss Mathieu Ngudjolo listens to the verdict on his trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

2012-12-18 00:00:00

A woman casts her vote on December 11, 2011 in parliamentary elections at a polling station in the northern Ivorian city of Bouake. The poll is boycotted by the party of former strongman Laurent Gbagbo, who is awaiting trial in The Hague for crimes against humanity.

2011-12-11 00:00:00