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Netherlands' Queen Beatrix gives farewell speech
The Netherlands' Queen Beatrix thanked her people Monday and urged them to support her son, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, in a final address before ...
Dutch court: compensation for gas attack survivors
A Dutch court on Wednesday ordered a businessman convicted of selling Saddam Hussein raw materials for mustard gas to pay compensation to victims of ...
Dutch diplomat sentenced to 12 years for spying
A Dutch court sentenced a diplomat to 12 years in prison Tuesday for delivering confidential NATO and European Union documents to Russian agents.
Dutch crown prince hints at informal monarchy
Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander set the tone Wednesday for what could be a relatively laid-back monarchy, saying in his last major interview ...
World court sets Burkina Faso-Niger border
The United Nations' highest court has set a border between landlocked West African neighbors Burkina Faso and Niger, in a case seen as an example of ...
Cambodia, Thailand seek temple ruling
Cambodia asked the United Nations' highest court Monday to clarify a 50-year-old ruling on ownership of a 1,000-year-old temple near its border with ...
Bosnian Serb president testifies for Karadzic
One Bosnian Serb leader testified in defense of another at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Tuesday, blaming Muslims' wishes for an Islamic state in ...
Suicide blast in Syrian capital kills at least 15
A suicide car bomber struck Monday in the financial heart of Syria's capital, killing at least 15 people, damaging the nearby central bank and ...
UN: Chemical investigators ready to go to Syria
U.N. experts are ready to move into Syria immediately to investigate reported chemical weapons attacks but President Bashar Assad's government still ...
Libya says it should be allowed to try spy chief
Libya has formally applied to the International Criminal Court to be allowed to put Moammar Gadhafi's former spy chief on trial in Tripoli instead of ...
Next for Kenya, a president on trial in The Hague
Kenya's powerbrokers and voters carried out a mostly violence-free election five years after tribal clashes ripped apart the country. The next big ...
International court detains Rwandan-born warlord
African warlord Bosco Ntaganda was taken from the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda on Friday and flown to International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he ...
Sea Shepherd seeks criminal case against whalers
Sea Shepherd wants Dutch authorities to prosecute Japanese whalers for piracy for allegedly attacking the radical conservationist group's ships in ...
Congo warlord Bosco Ntaganda remains at US Embassy
Wanted on an international warrant for alleged war crimes, Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda lived openly in Congo for years, playing tennis at ...
Lawyer: ICC should drop Kenyatta case
A defense lawyer for President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya told judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday that prosecutors should drop ...
Dutch lesbians raising Turkish boy go into hiding
A Dutch lesbian couple have gone into hiding with their foster son after the boy's biological parents said on television in Turkey that they object ...
Ex-prosecutor: Int'l court cases changed Kenya
The former International Criminal Court chief prosecutor said Thursday that cases he launched prosecuting violence after Kenya's 2007 elections were ...
Dutch government raises terror threat level
The Dutch government raised its terror threat Wednesday amid concerns that Dutch citizens traveling to Syria to fight in the civil war could return ...