The failure to act against some autocratic leaders challenged by the Arab Spring is emboldening critics who see the court as part of a deeply undemocratic international order.

Defying expectations and, in some places, bullets, Libyans voted in the first election after more than four decades under Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

A convicted member of Al Qaeda was transferred from the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to his native Sudan — a first for the Obama administration’s military commissions system.

Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese warlord, was sent to prison for 14 years for using child soldiers in 2002 and 2003.

Islamist militants destroyed two tombs on Tuesday at the famous 14th-century Djingareyber Mosque in Timbuktu, residents said.

Ethiopia is the darling of Western donors, but its stability comes at a heavy cost in human rights.