Bosnian Serb commander responsible for Srebrenica massacre dies in prison while serving life sentence for genocide Bosnian Serb army commander Gen Ratko Mladić addresses his troops in the eastern Bosnian town of Vlasenica in December 1995. Photograph: Oleg Stjepanovic/AP Ratko Mladić, the infamous Serbian general who was serving a life sentence for genocide committed during the Bosnian war, has died in prison in The Hague. Mladić had been one of the main architects of the pol

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand shake hands following talks at the G7 foreign ministers meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., in November 2025. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP) Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand recently said, on the eve of International Justice Day, that Canada will continue to support the International Criminal Court (ICC). Anand’s comments came in response to a Wall Street Journal op-ed writte