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Ben Roberts-Smith's bid to limit defamation evidence viewed by war crime investigators will prevent the contamination of their probe, a court has heard.

Thousands of adults and children may have survived Russian sexual assaults but few have come forward and far fewer have seen any punishment

At least 15 media workers have been killed in Ukraine since Russia began its full-scale war in February 2022. Along with targeting civilians, hospitals, schools, orphanages, residential buildings, communications centres and places of worship, the Russian state has been accused by the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine of deliberately…

Push to access restricted files comes as government confirms there are 33 active investigations into alleged criminal offences by Australian soldiers

Africa minister says civilian death toll horrific and UK is to send evidence to UN

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

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

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

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

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…

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