All news on the topic: War crimes

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Vladimir Putin launches ’revenge attack’ after Ukraine strikes Russian site with UK missiles
Officials claimed Russian troops launched an ICBM at Ukraine - an unconfirmed report that, if verified, would mark the munitions’ first battlefield deployment on the invasion front
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Putin’s snipers are teaching schoolchildren that "killing Ukrainians is not murder"
Russian schoolchildren are being taught lessons by military snipers who claim killing Ukrainians is not murder.
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Wallace faces questions over changes to war crimes bill that could have shielded the SAS
Former Defence Secretary Sir Ben Wallace is facing questions about a change made to a draft bill that would have protected the SAS from prosecution.
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Putin’s shadowy forces are reportedly engaging in a sadistic "blood ritual" that targets innocent civilians
The grim task of a Russian special forces unit, spraying Ukrainian vehicles with gunfire, is just the start of an even darker and more disturbing story.
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Putin’s forces accused of ’executing a Ukrainian war prisoner with a medieval-style sword’
It has been alleged that Putin’s forces executed a Ukrainian prisoner of war (PoW) using a sword.
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Russian soldier ’brandishes Ukrainian soldier’s head on a stake’
Footage has emerged of a Russian soldier brandishing what appears to be the severed head of a Ukrainian soldier, impaled on a stake.
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Keir Starmer calls Vladimir Putin’s missile strike on children’s cancer hospital ’depraved’
Screams were heard echoing from the rubble of a major hospital in Ukraine’s capital city tonight after a Russian missile barrage targeted the vulnerable and the desperate
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Russia has launched a massive attack on Ukraine
On the morning of July 8, the aggressor country of Russia launched a new missile attack on Ukraine.
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The UK’s involvement might cause a delay in the International Criminal Court’s decision on issuing an arrest warrant for Netanyahu
Britain to make legal arguments over jurisdiction in case of alleged war crimes by the Israeli PM
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UK ’tried to suppress criticism’ of alleged UAE involvement in arming Sudan’s RSF militia
UK accused of trying to head off condemnation of Gulf ally over alleged aid to forces accused of genocide in Darfur
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Ukrainian women recount experiences of rape by Russian forces as journalists probe their attackers
Two young women gave their accounts of rape by Russian soldiers to the Kyiv Independent, who set out to identify those responsible.
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Russia accused of using ’deliberate’ starvation tactics in Mariupol, according to ICC submission
Lawyers say strategy of denying food and services to people in Ukrainian city during siege could amount to war crime
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Both Israel and Hamas have been found to have committed war crimes since October 7, according to a UN body
Parallel reports describe serious crimes during Hamas attack and Israel’s subsequent offensive in Gaza
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UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally
Rights chief also warns Britain will be ‘judged harshly by history for its failure to help prevent civilian slaughter in Gaza’
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Ukrainians to fight in Putin's army as they're forced to accept Russia passport
The Kremlin is forcing hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to accept Russia passports, meaning they could also be conscripted and forced to fight against their countrymen in Vladimir Putin's war
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SAS veterans' fury as murder probe launched into death of Jihadist suspect
SAS veterans have blasted a decision to launch a murder probe into five soldiers over the death of a jihadist suspect in Syria, who was believed to have been wearing a suicide bomb vest
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UK sanctions the bosses of Russian prison where Alexei Navalny was killed
Foreign Secretary David Cameron has announced those in charge of the Arctic penal colony where Alexei Navalny was killed will be banned from the UK and have assets frozen
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Labour demands Putin stands trial at the Hague after killing of Alexei Navalny
The Shadow Foreign Secretary demanded the Russian leader be put before an international tribunal as the UK considers more sanctions after the death of the opposition leader
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IDF release video 'showing Hamas mastermind of October 7 attacks inside tunnel'
Israel's invasion of Gaza continues at pace, with the country's government now considering a ground attack on Rafah, where 1.4million Palestinians fled to avoid conflict elsewhere in the Strip
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Uyghur forced labour risks 'not being addressed' in renewable energy sector
The solar and electric vehicle industries have been heavily impacted by forced labour in the region
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'I survived a plane bomb that left me falling 33000ft without a parachute'
Air hostess Vesna Vulović was the only person to survive when the JAT Yugoslav Airlines plane she was working on was blown out of the skies by a suspected terrorist bomb in 1972
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Jeremy Corbyn joins South Africa delegation accusing Israel of genocide
Expelled former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn branded a case brought to The Hague by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide as a 'historic moment for humanity'
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Israeli hostages were 'waving white flag' when they were shot dead by the IDF
Meanwhile, the Palestinian president met with United States officials to discuss postwar arrangements for Gaza that could include reactivating Palestinian security forces driven out by Hamas in its 2007 takeover of the territory
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Israel unleashes 'war crime' strikes on two Gaza schools - at least 50 dead
Videos from inside two schools bombed by Israeli defence forces show dozens of bloodied women and children next to school desks as foreign ministries allege 'war crimes'
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Aussie war crimes whistleblower carries out dramatic move over secret documents
David McBride exposed operations of Australia's elite special forces in Afghanistan that amounted to allegations of war crimes and could now face prison due to "dark" whistleblower laws