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War crimes appeal begins for former Bosnia president

March 20, 2017 02:01:31 PM

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday began hearing an appeal by Jadranko Prlic, Prime Minister of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, an unrecognized entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina,...

February 24, 2017 01:16:28 PM

The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) formally asked the International Court of Justice Thursday to review a 2007 ruling clearing Serbia of genocide during their 1990 civil war. President Izetbegovic of the President...

February 18, 2017 02:07:28 PM

Following Bosnia-Herzegovina's vow to appeal a 2007 International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling clearing Serbia of genocide during Bosnia's civil war, many fear political crisis may be brewing in the Balkans. Serbia's foreign minister, Ivica...

January 31, 2017 07:50:10 AM

A Bosnian Serb woman was indicted Monday for taking part in the killing of 37 Muslim Bosniak prisoners of war during the 1992-95 war . Visnja Acimovic is accused of war crimes and...

December 7, 2016 12:45:53 PM

Prosecutors in the war crimes trial of Ratko Mladić on Wednesday urged the judges to impose a life sentence. The trial commenced on May 16, 2012, before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ...

December 5, 2016 04:24:19 PM

Prosecutors before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday began closing arguments in the trial of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic . It is expected that the closing arguments...

December 2, 2016 02:32:09 PM

The prosecutor for the Special Department for War Crimes on Friday indicted six former officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) for crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian War. The men were members of...

November 22, 2016 03:34:50 PM

Azra Basic, a Croatian woman wanted for war crimes she allegedly committed against Serbs during the 1992-95 war, was extradited from the US to Bosnia Herzegovina on Tuesday. A report from the Prosecutor's Office of BiH stated [press...

September 26, 2016 11:15:20 AM

Bosnian Serbs voted in a referendum Sunday to maintain January 9 as a national holiday in defiance of a court ruling. The date remembers January 9, 1992, when ethnic Serbians declared their own state within Bosnia...

September 20, 2016 09:55:02 AM

Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik stated to the press on Monday that there will be referendum for Bosnian Serbs regarding a disputed holiday in their autonomous region. The referendum will take place on September 25 and will ask...

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Line of Demarcation divides the New World between Spain and Portugal

On May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI promulgated the Line of Demarcation, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal in response the return of Christopher Columbus from his discovery of the American continents. However, neither country was entirely satisfied with the placement of the Line. A year later on June 7, 1494, the two nations signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which moved the Line of Demarcation further west, giving Portugal claim to Brazil.

Kent State student shootings precipitated lawsuits

On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen at Kent State University opened fire on students protesting the US invasion of Cambodia, killing four.

Review a legal chronology of the Kent State shootings, from May 5, 1970 (the day the FBI investigation started) to January 4, 1979 (the day the state of Ohio reached an out-of-court settlement for $675,000 with victims and relatives of victims).