Bipartisan efforts are underway in Congress to provide some funding for the International Criminal Court in the wake of its prosecutor’s investigation into war crimes in
Ukraine. But a key question is how the legislative vehicle should be designed, especially in light of existing laws that block federal appropriations for the Court. [...]
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In the deep waters of the Black Sea, Russia and Ukraine are engaged in a bitter battle over unlikely objects – ceramic jugs and sunken treasures. For years, both countries
have been using underwater cultural heritage objects, such as sunken ships and submerged ports, to shape historical narratives, claim sovereignty in Crimea and eastern [...]
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If current trends hold, Colombia’s presidential election on May 29 will mark a seismic shift, with a potential first-place finish for the first time in the country’s political
history of a center-left coalition, with a ticket led by Gustavo Petro, a former mayor of Bogotá and past member of the M-19 insurgent group. [...]
Yesterday, an 18-year-old gunman opened fire on students and teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. As of late last night, 21 people – 19 children and two adults
– were dead. [...]
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The United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights regularly produces a “Ukraine: civilian casualty update” – an important record of the lives lost since
Russia’s Feb. 24, 2022 invasion. But it has a significant omission. The tally nowhere references a vast group of individuals killed in Putin’s war: the combatants. [...]