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Justice Department stands with Ukraine in war crimes investigations, Attorney General Garland says

Attorney General Merrick Garland says the U.S. Justice Department is cooperating with the International Criminal Court and supporting Ukrainian prosecutors carrying out war crime investigations

The Independent UK

War in Ukraine: Blood transfusion centre in Kharkiv hit by Russian attack as three killed

President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as a ‘war crime’ by ‘beasts’ after a night of intense shelling in Ukraine

The Independent UK

Ukraine-Russia war – live: Three killed in revenge attacks as Putin retaliates after drone strikes

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky calls attack on Kupiansk community a ‘war crime’

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Russia accused of ‘war crimes’ after Ukrainian blood clinic bombing

The attack came after a second drone strike on a Russian tanker stationed at a Black Sea naval base overnight on Friday

Evening Standard

Ukraine war: reports suggest the deaths of some journalists have been deliberate – which is a war crime

In a conflict like the war in Ukraine, many journalists risk their lives to report the truth and reveal war crimes committed by both sides. But when journalists themselves are targeted, these war crimes almost always go unpunished. Research from Human Rights Watch has found that a de facto impunity…

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Widespread war crimes committed in Sudan, Amnesty International says

Violations documented in Sudan – such as rape and attacks targeting civilians – amount to war crimes, Amnesty says.

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Fox News melts down over Donald Trump’s latest indictment: ‘These are political war crimes’

Fox Hosts tried to downplay Trump’s alleged conspiracy to defraud the United States and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding

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Jesse Watters calls latest Trump indictment ‘political war crime’ on Fox News

Fox Host tried to downplay Trump’s alleged witness tampering and false statements

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin to skip South Africa summit where he faced risk of arrest

Russian president to call into summit via video call, with South Africa obliged to enforce warrant over alleged war crimes

The Independent UK

Israeli attack on Jenin a ‘new war crime’, Palestinians say

Palestinian Authority urges international community to ‘take serious action’ as Gaza factions organise rally.

Al Jazeera

Victoria Amelina: Ukrainian writer dies after Russian missile strike on Kramatorsk pizzeria

War crimes researcher Victoria Amelina, 37, became the 13th person to die from the attack

Evening Standard

Putin claim that Russia funds Wagner group may make it easier to try him for war crimes

Admission that Russia paid 86bn roubles to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenaries this year is potentially significant, say legal experts

The Guardian - UK

Russian politician charged with war crimes over alleged deportation of orphans from Ukraine

Ukraine claims more than 19,000 children have been illegally deported over the course of the war

Evening Standard

Govt criticised for slowing ex-soldier's war crime case

A former SAS soldier facing a war crime charge has complained that he has yet to see a single piece of evidence despite 99 days passing since his arrest.

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The International Criminal Court is unlikely to prosecute alleged Australian war crimes – here's why

For the first time, Australians have been referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for investigation into alleged Afghan war crimes.

The Independent UK

Australian senator invites International Criminal Court to probe officers in war crime allegations

A senator has invited the International Criminal Court to investigate what Australian military commanders knew about war crime allegations in Afghanistan in a bid pressure Australia into launching its own review

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s military should be held to account – but it’s the individual soldier who pulls the trigger

Calls for ‘higher ups’ to shoulder blame for alleged war crimes must take into account the complex nature of operational command and control

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine and Myanmar make 2022 most violent year in a decade for medical staff

Report demands accountability for war crimes and singles out Russia for ‘mind-boggling’ targeting of hospitals in Ukraine

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Thousands face evacuation after destruction of huge Ukraine dam blamed on Russian forces

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky calls attack on dam a ‘war crime’ and the ‘largest manmade environmental disaster in Europe in decades’

Reuters

Explainer-Ukraine dam: When do attacks on civilian installations amount to war crimes?

The Geneva Conventions and its protocols explicitly ban war-time attacks on "installations containing dangerous forces" such as dams due to the risk posed to civilians, a prohibition likely to come into focus after the destruction of a huge Ukrainian dam.

Reuters

Ukraine investigating dam blast as war crime, prosecutors say

Ukraine is investigating the blast at a major hydroelectric dam in the south of the country as a war crime and as possible criminal environmental destruction, or "ecocide", the office of its prosecutor general said on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Australian decorated hero quits corporate job after Afghanistan war crime revelations

Australia’s most decorated living war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has quit his corporate job after a civil court blamed the national hero for unlawfully killing four Afghans and escalated calls for him to be stripped of his revered Victoria Cross medal

ABC News

'A war crime has been censored': Truth revealed about a WWII massacre on Bangka Island

Vivian Bullwinkel was the sole survivor of a wartime massacre, but the full extent of the horrors she experienced is only now being told.

The Independent UK

Australia’s most decorated living soldier committed war crimes, judge rules in defamation case

Victoria Cross recipient loses civil defamation case as judge finds a number of murder allegations by newspapers ‘substantially true’

Evening Standard

Ben Roberts-Smith: Australia’s most decorated living soldier loses war crimes defamation case

Australia’s most decorated living war veteran has lost a defamation case in which three newspapers accused him of committing war crimes in Afghanistan.

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