ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A judge has ruled that a former Somali prime minister who has been living quietly in the U.S. for the last 14 years can be deposed in a federal lawsuit alleging he oversaw war crimes and other abuses against his own people.

There was widespread support among scores of human rights groups and many others for recent efforts to have Switzerland open a preliminary investigation for torture against former President George W. Bush during his planned (and now canceled) visit to Geneva.

A former St. Petersburg man accused of war crimes in Bosnia was deported from the United States on Saturday, immigration and customs enforcement officials said.

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court urged judges Wednesday to put two Sudanese rebels on trial for allegedly commanding and participating in a 2007 attack in Darfur that killed 12 African Union peacekeepers.

" US Senator John Kerry on Friday warned of tougher sanctions against Sudan if the governments of north or south placed obstacles in the way of a January 9 referendum on southern independence.

"Kenyan officials today welcomed Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to a signing ceremony for Kenya's new constitution, in direct contravention of the state's legal obligations as an International Criminal Court signatory, to arrest the indicted sitting head of state.

"Shocking Images of Dead Kurdish Fighters"

This story was not well covered by the media-- seeded as background to the current US withdrawal from Iraq. After the US is out-- can the Kurds expect more atrocities like this?

"Human rights group Amnesty International has released images of what it claims is US involvement in air strikes on an alleged Al-Qaeda training camp in Yemen late last year.

In the midst of the Cast Lead counterterror offensive in late 2008 and early 2009, the Israeli Arab group Ittijah accused Israel of war crimes and called to put Israeli leaders on trial.

Eli Rosenbaum, director of the OSI and America's chief Nazi hunter, thinks that a few dozen of the hundreds of criminals and collaborators who fled to the US after the Second World War are still in the country.

Evidence of the massacre of at least 321 people in Democratic Republic of Congo has been uncovered by the BBC.