The International Criminal Court (ICC) acquitted Congolese warlord Ngudjolo Chui of all charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity today, a blow for victims of Congo wars a decade ago.
Judge Antonio Cassese, the first president of the UN-backed Lebanon tribunal and the Yugoslavia war crimes court in The Hague, has died at home after a long fight with cancer.
Jean Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front party, was found guilty of condoning war crimes and given a suspended jail sentence of three months by a court in Paris.
Prosecutors have demanded an 80-year jail term for former Liberian president Charles Taylor who was last week convicted of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity.
Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic plans to boycott the UN war crimes court, when he is scheduled to enter a plea against charges of genocide during the Bosnian war.
Serbia arrested the last major war crimes suspect from the 1990s conflicts in former Yugoslavia, Goran Hadzic, closing what its president said was a "burdensome" page in the country's history.
Serbia has taken another important step towards fulfilling its European Union ambitions with the arrest of its last major wartime fugitive, the EU said.