Trumpโ€™s plan for โ€˜ethnic cleansingโ€™ in Gaza is illegal, says UN investigator

Navi Pillay, head of UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, also said she would support a charge of apartheid against Israel at the ICC.

Trump aides knew he wanted to take over Gaza but had no plan

They cast his idea to own and rebuild the strip as a negotiating ploy Wednesday, while walking back key details.

Trumpโ€™s Gaza fantasy is a recipe for a forever war

U.S. president is pressing countries to take in Palestinians by threatening to cut aid, but it’s too dangerous for Arab leaders to accept that blackmail.

Global fury builds over Trumpโ€™s plan to turn Gaza into the Middle East โ€˜Rivieraโ€™

U.S. president faces outrage from Arab countries and key European capitals over his โ€œdangerousโ€ proposal that Palestinians should be removed from the coastal enclave.ย 

Nearly 180 detainees released by Israel, Hamas

As part of the cease-fire deal, Israel and Egypt on Saturday opened the Rafah border crossing, which has been closed for months.

Armenia responds to Azerbaijanโ€™s fascism accusation: They want to provoke tensions

Azerbaijan has fought a series of wars against Armenia in recent years.

Israel committing genocide by depriving Palestinians of water, Human Rights Watch report finds

NGO accused Israel of a “calculated policy of deprivation” that has killed thousands.

Tusk: Poland is โ€˜frontline stateโ€™ that canโ€™t โ€˜give everythingโ€™ to Ukrainian defense

Polish leader confirms his countryโ€™s unwavering support for Kyiv.

Israel โ€˜methodically destroyingโ€™ Gaza, say health workers

Visiting doctors share eyewitness accounts after a U.N. inquiry accused Israel of war crimes by targeting Gaza’s health system.

Eight suspected members of far-right terror cell arrested in Germany

Group alleged to have been plotting armed takeover of eastern regions to establish a Nazi-inspired regimePolice in Germany have arrested eight suspected members of a far-right terror cell alleged to have been plotting the armed takeover of eastern regi…

Back to the future: Russia to unveil new Stalin statue

There was a public demand to commemorate the dictator responsible for millions of deaths, local politician says.

EU must confront Azerbaijan at COP29 over human rights crackdown, top NGOs demand

The fossil fuel-rich climate summit host has said criticism of their domestic record is merely foreign ‘provocations.’

How the Israel-Hamas war sidelined other world hot spots

Every administration has to readjust to respond to world events, but the Israel-Hamas conflict has been particularly disruptive to Bidenโ€™s other foreign policy efforts.

Poland and Ukraineโ€™s bloody past overshadows their anti-Russia alliance

Thousands died in wartime massacres and Warsaw wants Kyiv to admit responsibility and allow for exhumations and reburial of the victims.

Lawmaker who called Israel โ€˜apartheid stateโ€™ faces tough Tuesday primary

AIPAC has spent $8 million to unseat Rep. Cori Bush, who once called Israel an โ€˜apartheid state.โ€™ But thatโ€™s not mentioned in the deluge of advertising.

The ICC should consider the new Armenian genocide petition

This isnโ€™t just about the Armenian community in Nagorno-Karabakh โ€” it’s focused on different forms of genocide committed against Armenians in Armenia itself.

Good COP, bad COP: Azerbaijanโ€™s climate charm offensive is backfiring

Hosting the prestigious U.N. talks is drawing unwanted attention to the oil-and-gas-rich nationโ€™s foreign influence networks and political crackdowns.

A Trump-style tower in Belgrade? Serbs say it reopens war wounds.

Former U.S. presidentโ€™s son-in-law Jared Kushner plans to redevelop an informal memorial to the 1999 NATO bombing.

Three decades on, Croatia’s Vukovar bears invisible scars of war

The Croatian city of Vukovar, on the banks of the Danube, has a painful past. Located on the border with Serbia, it was the scene of the first major battle in the 1990s Balkan wars. Four years before the genocide in Srebrenica and eight years before t…

UK Foreign Office holding secret talks with Sudanโ€™s RSF paramilitary group

Exclusive: Rights groups denounce negotiations with Rapid Support Forces, accused of ethnic cleansing and war crimesInside South Sudanโ€™s worsening refugee crisis โ€“ in picturesForeign Office officials are holding secret talks with the paramilitary group…

Tony Blair seeks climate role at COP29 in Azerbaijan

The former PM’s interest highlights the contradictions for the powerbrokers and consultants running U.N. climate talks.

Europeโ€™s policies to combat antisemitism have failed the โ€˜real worldโ€™ test

In short โ€” and let me be blunt โ€” if governments arenโ€™t prepared, or are unwilling, to turn words into action, the entire strategy will be useless.

How the US broke Kosovo and what that means for Ukraine

Washington’s track record suggests it’s better at fighting wars than dealing with what follows.

South Africaโ€™s genocide case against Israel lays bare Europeโ€™s feeble power

Divisions on the conflict in the Middle East come as Europe was already grappling with an emerging far-right sentiment.

Europeโ€™s stance on Gaza has undermined its credibility

The Continentโ€™s irrelevance and dramatic loss of reliability in the Middle East has seriously weakened the Westโ€™s global standing on Ukraine.

3 options for how to deal with your enemies: Jail, nasty names, and vomit

It’s OK to call Tories ‘scum’ and to throw up fluorescent green dye.

Azerbaijan can become a constructive player in the Caucasus

The US, EU and Turkey must lead this mediation process, as they would directly benefit from a settlement that could foster security links and economic interconnectivity in the region.

UN sounds alarm on Darfur, warns world not to repeat history

At least 800 people were killed within 72 hours this week as part of the ethnic cleansing of minorities conducted by the RSF and its allies in West Darfur.

International justice must serve victims of Israel-Hamas war atrocities

When it comes to Palestine, the International Criminal Courtโ€™s potential is yet to be realized.

European Council summit live: EU leaders meet amid Israel-Hamas, Ukraine wars

As conflict continues in Ukraine, Israel-Gaza, the Caucasus and the Balkans, EU leaders gather for European Council.

I grew up in Bosnia, amid fear and hatred of Muslims. Now I see Germanyโ€™s mistakes over Gaza | Lana Bastaลกiฤ‡

As a child, I saw what follows ethnic cleansing. Thatโ€™s why I am speaking out about my new homeโ€™s silence over Palestinian deathsWhen I moved to Berlin, I developed a habit of stopping by the Stolpersteine (โ€œstumbling stonesโ€ memorials) and reading abo…

Martti Ahtisaari obituary

Finnish politician awarded the Nobel peace prize for his mediation work in Kosovo and IndonesiaMartti Ahtisaari, who has died aged 86, was a former president of Finland who won the Nobel peace prize for his role as an independent mediator helping to en…

Victorious Aliyev says fulfilled Azerbaijani โ€˜dreamโ€™ in Karabakh

A victorious President Ilham Aliyev said he had achieved a decades-long “Azerbaijani dream” by retaking Nagorno-Karabakh from ethnic Armenian separatists, as he raised his country’s flag in the region’s main city on Sunday (15 October).

Europeโ€™s power outage: How Israel-Hamas war exposed EUโ€™s irrelevance

As global crises intensify, the ‘geopolitical’ Continent is left on sidelines.

โ€˜This is a forced migrationโ€™: the ethnic Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh

Tens of thousands have packed their lives into their vehicles and fled the disputed region for ArmeniaAnoush, a 23-year-old recent English graduate from Martuni province in the self-declared republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, is one of tens of thousands of …

Kosovo attack: Who benefits?

Blamed on Serbia, last weekโ€™s ambush is especially perplexing โ€” and itโ€™s worth questioning whose interests it serves.

Nagorno-Karabakhโ€™s tragedy has echoes of Europeโ€™s dark past. But a remedy lies in Europe too | Nathalie Tocci

As more than 100,000 people flee to avoid rule by Azerbaijan, itโ€™s time for the EU to consider the prospect of membership for ArmeniaThe president of the self-declared โ€œRepublic of Artsakhโ€, Samvel Shahramanyan, has dissolved all institutions of the br…

Three quarters of Karabakh population already out in swift exodus

More than three quarters of the 120,000-strong population of the ethnic Armenian breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh had fled by Friday afternoon (29 September) after defeat by Azerbaijan, a faster-than-expected mass exodus that looked likely to be to…