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Syria
UN to probe attacks on humanitarian sites in northwestern Syria
It follows pleas by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who said airstrikes by the Syrian government and its ally Russia have hit schools, hospitals and markets, killing scores of civilians in Idlib province, the country's last rebel stronghold.
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Libya
Euroviews. Europe's inaction on the civil war in Libya will bring crisis to our shores ǀ View
It isn’t hard to see why Ghassan Salamé accused the global community of lacking the ‘moral motivation’ to end the Libyan civil war. After all, his comments followed Emmanuel Macron’s meeting with Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, a warlord and dictator-in-the-making.
Germany
Former Nazi guard, 94, goes on trial in juvenile court
A 94-year-old former Nazi guard goes on trial today in Germany.
Charged with aiding and abetting the murder of several hundred concentration camp prisoners during the Second World War, he faces 15 years in prison.
As he was under 21 at the time, the former SS guard will be tried in a juvenile court.
Democratic Republic Of Congo
DR Congo: ICC overturns Bemba verdict
Congolese ex-Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba is acquitted of five counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. It's a huge blow to prosecutors and this was the first ICC case with a major focus on the use of rape as a weapon of war, according to the Open Society Justice Initiative
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Euroviews. View: After closure of Yugoslav tribunal, Western Balkans still needs
Unless governments in the Western Balkans, and their EU and US partners, redouble their efforts to bring those responsible for wartime crimes to justice, there is a danger that history will repeat itself, writes Lydia Gall