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New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared before parliament Friday that Japanese leaders during World War II were not war criminals. Abe, who took office late last month , had said a day earlier...

Two hundred families plan later this week to demand damages from SNCF , the French state-run railway system, in connection with the company's transportation of Jewish families to German concentration camps during World War II. The demand comes...

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday visited the Yasukuni war shrine on the anniversary of the day when Emperor Hirohito surrendered World War II in 1945. The shrine honors all Japanese war...

An appeals court in Japan on Friday dismissed the appeal of a lawsuit brought in 1997 by 42 Chinese plaintiffs against the Japanese government and ten Japanese corporations seeking compensation for forced labor, saying the statute...

Serbian members of parliament declared Serbia a sovereign nation Monday, two days after the parliament of Montenegro proclaimed its own independence from the former Serbia-Montenegro union. The breakup marks the final dissolution of what...

The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina began hearing its first genocide case Tuesday with the opening of the trial of 11 Bosnian Serbs charged for their role in...

The Fukuoka district court in Japan on Wednesday dismissed a case brought by 45 Chinese men accusing the Japanese government and two Japanese mining companies of forcing them to work in Japanese coal mines during World...

Eighty-five year old Algimantas Dailide, a retired real estate broker from the Cleveland area who was deported from the United States in 2003 for lying about his past, went on trial Monday in his native Lithuania, charged with helping...

Several Chinese companies have reportedly donated more than $315,000 to help pay for lawsuits against the Japanese government for war crimes allegedly committed by Japanese troops during their occupation of part of China during World War II....

The case against Orhan Pamuk , Turkey's most prominent writer, was dropped by an Istanbul court Sunday following a statement from the Turkish Justice Ministry. Pamuk, whose work often examines the clashes between society and...