The war criminal and former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, accused the international court that convicted him of crimes against humanity of being manipulated by the West, and said prosecutors had paid witnesses to testify against him.
Twenty years after he became commander of the Bosnian Serb Army for the 1992-95 war, Ratko Mladic sat in the dock of the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague yesterday charged with committing crimes against humanity in Bosnia.
A renegade Congolese general wanted by the International Criminal Court | for war crimes has begun to recruit child soldiers again to fight the government, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) investigation released on today.
Nato has invited President Asif Ali Zardari to its summit in Chicago, after signs that Pakistan could be moving to reopen its Afghan border to international military supplies.
A team of international observers was evacuated today from a tense town in northern Syria a day after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, a UN spokesman said.
Ahead of Rio+20, a report is calling for a joined-up approach to managing the world's water, land and energy demands | The international community needs to "radically transform" the way it manages water, energy and land to ensure the needs of the poorest people are met and the environment is protected, according to the European Report on Development, published on Wednesday.
We need something that can deliver emission reductions from existing fleets of planes – and the solution already exists | As a small, maritime trading nation Britain has always been some distance from big international markets. Our ability to visit far-off places and people, and their access to us, has always been at the heart of our ability to punch above our weight in the world, whether that's commercially, culturally or diplomatically.
More than a decade after the cancellation of billions of dollars of debt, developing countries owe $4tn … and counting | Years after debt campaigners succeeded in persuading the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and G8 to abolish debts worth billions of dollars owed by developing countries, figures show total external debts are once again on the increase.
International Olympic Committee turns down Israeli plan to mark 40th anniversary of terrorist attack with a minute's silence | The International Olympic Committee has rejected an Israeli call for a minute's silence at the London Games to mark the 40th anniversary of the Munich terrorist attack in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed.
Former News International CEO expressed anger that those close to her had been 'dragged into the affair' | Rebekah Brooks made a defiant attack on the "weak and unjust" decision by the prosecuting authorities to bring charges against her on Tuesday and dismissed the case as an "expensive sideshow and waste of public money".
Former News International chief executive, her husband and four others to be charged in phone-hacking inquiry | Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, is to be charged over allegations that she tried to conceal evidence from detectives investigating phone hacking and alleged bribes to public officials. | Brooks, one of the most high-profile figures in the newspaper industry,
Caesar Acellam, a senior commander in Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, is paraded in front of the media after he was captured by Ugandan soldiers in the Central African Republic at the weekend. Although Acellam is not one of the LRA commanders indicted along with Kony for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in 2005, Ugandan officials say he was one of Kony's top military strategists.
A three-man crew blasted off from a space centre in southern Kazakhstan on board a Russian-made Soyuz craft for a half-year stay at the International Space Station.
An international aid agency warned today that Syrian forces are targeting medical workers and patients who were wounded in the 14-month-old conflict, forcing doctors to scramble to help the injured in makeshift clinics.
An international aid agency warned today that Syrian forces are targeting medical workers and patients who were wounded in the 14-month-old conflict, forcing doctors to scramble to help the injured in makeshift clinics.
Iran spurned a previously undisclosed American offer from President George W Bush of talks aimed at reaching a "grand bargain" over long-standing differences between Washington and Tehran, a leading figure in the country's theocratic regime has revealed.
Iran spurned a previously undisclosed American offer from President George W Bush of talks aimed at reaching a "grand bargain" over long-standing differences between Washington and Tehran, a leading figure in the country's theocratic regime has revealed.
For ninth straight day, party leaders were struggling to form a new coalition government, riven by differences over the harsh austerity measures demanded by international creditors in return for rescue loans.