Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte arrested at airport on ICC warrant for crime against humanity

The center-right Greek government’s plans to legalize same-sex civil marriage received a major boost Thursday after the left-wing opposition leader pledged his party’s backing in parliament. Syriza leader Stefanos Kasselakis said he would instruct his lawmakers to vote for the proposal, although he argued that it didn’t go far enough on parenthood rights. Kasselakis, who […]

A Paris court sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison Friday for complicity in war crimes in a landmark case against the regime of Syria’s President Bashar Assad and the first such case in Europe. The trial focused on the officials’ role in the alleged arrest, torture and killing in 2013 […]

Six months after Yulia Bar-Dan and her family fled their home on a kibbutz in northern Israel fearing a possible Hezbollah assault following the horrendous Hamas attack of Oct. 7, she returned to gather what she could from a lifetime of memories she’d left behind. One hour was all she had. “We were given a […]