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Hungary indicts Nazi-era suspect for war crimes
Hungarian prosecutors indicted a 98-year-old former police officer Tuesday for abusing Jews and assisting in their deportation to Nazi death camps ...
Shock lingers after Nazi unit leader found in US
The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to ...
Nazi unit leader's US life prompts shock, denial
The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in the U.S. for the past six decades came as a shock to people ...
AP IMPACT: Commander of Nazi-led unit lives in US
A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into ...
Int'l court case against ex-pope fizzles
The International Criminal Court has rejected a longshot request by clergy sex abuse victims to investigate former Pope Benedict XVI and Vatican ...
After Liberia massacre, a neglected mass grave
Birds twittering in the trees are among the few signs of life in Carter Camp, an abandoned former workers' housing compound now overgrown with untamed ...
War crimes suspect extradited to Bosnia from US
A man was extradited to his native Bosnia-Herzegovina to be tried for war crimes committed in the 1990s, including the torture of one prisoner and the ...
UN court acquits 2 Serbs of Balkan war atrocities
A U.N. court on Thursday acquitted two former allies of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic of setting up and arming notorious Serb paramilitary ...
Norway holds Rwandan suspected of war crimes
Norwegian police say they have arrested a Rwandan on suspicion of being involved in killings during the 1994 genocide in his own country. The National ...
UN rights council demands Syria protect civilians
The U.S., Turkey and Qatar pushed through a U.N. resolution Wednesday demanding a probe into the fighting around the Syrian town of Qusair, near ...
UN court convicts 6 Bosnian Croats of atrocities
A U.N. court convicted six Bosnian Croat political and military leaders Wednesday of persecuting, expelling and murdering Muslims during Bosnia's war ...
UN rights body agrees to urgent debate on Syria
The U.N.'s top human rights body agreed Monday to hold another urgent session on the civil war in Syria, hoping to prod accountability for the killing ...
UN court marks 20th anniversary of establishment
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal and survivors of the bloody conflicts that ripped through the Balkans in the 1990s looked back on two decades of ...
Kosovo: Thousands protest arrest of 6 ex-rebels
Thousands of ethnic Albanians protested the arrest of six former senior rebel commanders on suspicion of war crimes committed during the 1998-99 ...
EU in Kosovo arrests 5 war crime suspects
The European Union law mission in Kosovo says five ethnic Albanian men have been arrested for alleged war crimes against civilians during the 1998-99 ...
War crimes prosecutor receives Israel complaint
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court — the permanent war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands — says she has received a complaint ...
Kenyan wants to skip most of his war crimes trial
Deputy President William Ruto of Kenya asked international war crimes judges Tuesday if he can skip most of his trial and attend only its opening and ...