Thousands of teddy bears with candles on display at a protest in Brussels in February 2023 represented abducted Ukrainian children.
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The International Criminal Court issued its first arrest warrants for Russians allegedly responsible for war crimes in Ukraine.
A U.S. surveillance drone flies over the USS Coronado in the Pacific Ocean during an April 2021 drill.
U.S. Navy/Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shannon Renfroe
International law states that states have to operate ‘due regard’ for the right of nations to fly drones above international waters. Washington claims Russia violated this standard in incident.
The earthquake destroyed many houses and buildings in northwestern Syria.
Bahar Organization
A scholar who visited Syria after the earthquake observes that as the war has dragged on, a humanitarian organization she’s researched for 10 years has branched out.
Temporary shelters have been set up near neighborhoods in the Idlib province demolished by the Syria-Turkey earthquake.
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The earthquake that struck Turkey and neighboring Syria on Feb. 6, 2023, was a natural disaster, but its consequences have been shaped by the human tragedy of the Syrian civil war.
Research shows cities are delivering on their climate pledges. More than mayors, the real force behind these local transitions are nonprofit organisations.
People gather around a hole being dug in search of water in Darfur, Sudan, in 2004.
AP Photo/Ben Curtis
Many genocide classes review the Holocaust or Cambodia’s Killing Fields. A scholar wanted to show that genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing still happen today.
Peace proposal: Chinese envoy Dai Bing tells the United Nations that a ceasefire is the most urgent priority for Beijing.
Xie E/Xinhua/Alamy Live News
With no end in site to the Ukraine war, and the UN largely powerless, New Zealand now faces difficult military, humanitarian, diplomatic and legal challenges.
Surprise visit: Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, welcomes the US president, Joe Biden, to the presidential palace in Kyiv.
EPA-EFE/Ukrainian presidential press service
When a country changes its name or requests changes to the spelling of its name, there are almost always political motives.
People gather in the Davos Congress Center prior to the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2023.
(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
The kidnapping of Phil Mehrtens is a sign the West Papuan independence movement is again becoming desperate to attract international attention, following decades of violent human rights abuses.
Failure to disclose all of an organisation’s emissions misleads consumers and investors.
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We’re rarely aware of a company’s full environmental footprint.
Canadian and German troops take part in a Canadian flag-raising ceremony as the first Canadian troops arrived at a UN base in Gao, Mali, in June 2018. Was the initiative just an exercise in box-checking for Justin Trudeau’s government?
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
A decision to bulldoze the home belonging to the family of a man accused of killing seven people outside a synagogue in East Jerusalem has sparked questions over the legality of Israeli policy.
A green turtle on Aldabra entangled in abandoned fishing gear.
Rich Baxter
New data from 2000 through 2019 shows that Ukraine’s human rights record is better than Russia’s – but worse than that of its Western European neighbors.