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UN spokesperson Liz Throssell denounces the passage of a bill in Peru that bars prosecution of crimes against humanity committed before 2002, saying it ran contrary to international law. "The law contravenes the country's obligations under international law and is a troubling development, amid a broader backlash against human rights and the rule of law in Peru," she says. SOUNDBITE
"Putting the leaders of a democratic government on the same level as terrorists who have murdered is a comparison that I find outrageous and offensive," says Gerard Larcher, President of the French Senate, following a meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz in Paris. IMAGES
Outside the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, Netherlands, as the prosecutor Karim Khan, says he is seeking arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes including "starvation", "wilful killing", and "extermination and/or murder". IMAGES
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, says he is seeking warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity. According to Karim Khan crimes include "starvation", "wilful killing", and "extermination and/or murder". SOUNDBITE
Christian Brueckner, the German man suspected of abducting missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, appears in public for the first time since being named in her case, arriving at a court in Braunschweig for the start of his trial on unrelated sex crime charges. German prosecutors have yet to charge Brueckner over Madeleine's disappearance, but in October 2022 he was charged with five separate counts of rape and child sex abuse allegedly committed in Portugal, where Madeleine disappeared, between 2000 and 2017. IMAGES
The United States says that Sudan's rival forces have both committed war crimes in their brutal conflict, accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The two sides "must end this brutal conflict... must comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law, international human rights law," says State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. SOUNDBITE