SUPERMODEL Naomi Campbell was today granted “protective measures” ahead of her appearance in court to give evidence in the case against former warlord Charles Taylor.

THE International Criminal Court yesterday charged Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir with three counts of genocide in Darfur, a move that will pile further diplomatic pressure on his isolated regime.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was charged with genocide in Darfur today by the International Criminal Court on, piling further diplomatic pressure on his isolated regime.

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor gave evidence in his own defence at his war crimes trial today, saying the case against him is built on lies.

THE remaining 83 troops with the last Irish unit on peacekeeping duty in Liberia returned home last night.

Britain circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution yesterday that would move the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor from Sierra Leone to the Netherlands because of the danger he would pose by remaining in the West Africa region.

Liberia’s one-time warlord Charles Taylor was in the hands of Sierra Leone’s tribunal today, where he is set to become the first-ever African head of state tried on war crimes charges by an international court.

Irish peacekeeping troops in Liberia today began drills to protect a war crimes court set up in Sierra Leone.

Nepal’s royal government today charged a prominent student leader with sedition for leading street protests against King Gyanendra.

A landmark war crimes trial opened in Belgrade today against six Serb suspects accused of killing 192 Croat prisoners of war at a pig farm during the brutal 1991 war in the Balkans.

A Garda Chief Superintendent told the Special Criminal Court today that he believed a Co Louth man arrested at the Neptune Beach Hotel last year was a member of an illegal organisation.