A 98-year-old Hungarian who topped the dwindling list of surviving Nazi war crimes suspects has died in hospital while awaiting trial for allegedly sending 12,000 Jews to the death camps.

Dhaka: A special Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced a top Islamist to 90 years in prison for masterminding atrocities during the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.
Ghulam Azam, 90, the wart

Bangladesh police fired rubber bullets at protesters on Monday, as violence erupted across the country ahead of the verdict on a top Islamist for allegedly masterminding atrocities during the 1971 liberation war.

New Delhi: In the wake of fresh allegations of rights violations against ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka, India today said there should be accountability for such issues but remained evasive on the positi

Sri Lanka's former army chief Sarath Fonseka, who was released from jail last month, renewed his fight with President Mahinda Rajapakse on Thursday with a call to defeat his 'corrupt' government.

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A UN-backed war crimes court handed Liberia's former president Charles Taylor a 50-year jail term on Wednesday for arming rebels in Sierra Leone in return for "blood diamonds".

Taylor, 64, was convic

A report from a U.N. demining expert says unexploded cluster munitions have been found in northern Sri Lanka, appearing to confirm their use in that country's long civil war.

The revelation could add

Sri Lanka's president has rejected a call by Indian legislators to withdraw soldiers from the island's former war zone in the north where minority Tamils are concentrated, his spokesman said on Sunday

Indo-Sri Lanka ties remain good despite India backing a resolution moved by the US at the UNHRC against Colombo, Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris has said, observing that no bilateral relationship is o

Sri Lankan Minister Mervyn Silva has threatened to 'break the bones' of three rights activists who campaigned for a US resolution at Geneva that was deemed to be anti-Colombo.

Silva's comments were d