Court says soldiers subjected civilians to cruel and inhuman treatment, in cases that may determine handling of further claims. British troops breached the Geneva conventions and subjected Iraqi civilians to cruel and inhuman treatment by hooding them and taking turns to run over their backs, the high court has ruled. …
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Is there anything she can’t do? Angelina Jolie was reportedly tapped to aid in the capture of Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, according to leaked International Criminal Court documents. A new report from The Sunday Times, based on 40,000 documents obtained by the French investigative website Mediapart, reveals the Oscar winner agreed to …
Read More »At the Security Council, Netanyahu is preaching the Tanakh
By Lamis Beshara –World leaders gathered at the 72nd meeting of the UN Nation’s General Assembly, not to denounce the violence and barbarity driving the world today but rather to confirm their choices for war by maintaining and reiterating same stances against each other’s without any hope for change, as …
Read More »Western envoys shun Qatar event attended by Omar Bashir
The Levant News — Western diplomats shunned the opening ceremony of a conference in Qatar on Sunday attended by Sudan’s president, who is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who came to power in Sudan in a 1989 Islamist and military-backed coup, has …
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