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Seconds after his war crimes sentence of 20 years was upheld at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Praljak raised a small brown bottle to his lips, and drank it in full view of the cameras filming. (Photo: ANI)

Slobodan Parjlak convicted of war crimes, drinks poison in court

Praljak was one of six former Bosnian Croat political and military leaders appearing before the appeal court.

30 Nov 2017 12:37 PM IST

Navy Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher walks with his wife, Andrea Gallagher as they leave a military court on Naval Base San Diego. (Photo: AP)

US Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher acquitted of war crimes

The seven-member jury deliberated for about nine hours before delivering its verdict.

3 July 2019 12:38 PM IST

Russian army Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin, 21, is seen behind a glass during a court hearing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, May 13, 2022. The trial of a Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian civilian opened Friday, the first war crimes trial since Moscows invasion. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine opens first war crimes trial of captured Russian

In the first war crimes case brought to trial, Shyshimarin could get life in prison if convicted of shooting a...

14 May 2022 10:56 AM IST

John Bolton led negotiations for America to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty so that the Bush administration could proceed with a national missile-defence programme. (Photo: AP)

US threatens to arrest ICC judges if they charge any American with war...

Bolton said, 'We will not cooperate with the ICC. We will provide no assistance to the ICC. We will let the ICC die on...

11 Sept 2018 11:30 AM IST

Syrian President Bashar Assad. (Photo: AP)

UN prosecutor finds enough evidence' to convict Syria's Assad of war...

Carla Del Ponte said that without an international court or prosecutor to try the Syria war crimes cases, justice would...

13 Aug 2017 6:33 PM IST

Protest in Rameshwaram after an Indian fisherman was shot dead by Sri Lankan Navy. (Photo: Twitter)

Indian fisherman shot dead by Lankan navy

Tension prevailed in the area as fishermen gathered in front of the hospital to protest the firing by the Sri Lankan...

7 March 2017 8:12 AM IST

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, second from left, and Frances Foreign Minister Jean Marc Ayrault, second from right, attend a meeting on Syria, in Paris. (Photo: AP)

Frustrated Western powers call for talks to end Syrian war

US Kerry said the regime's indiscriminate bombing' of Aleppo amounted to war crimes'.

10 Dec 2016 9:02 PM IST