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UN court convicts Bosnian Serb of genocide
A U.N. war crimes court convicted a former senior Bosnian Serb army commander Wednesday of genocide for playing a key role in Europe's worst massacre ...
Dutch call off search for 6 missing crewmen
Rescuers called off search efforts for six missing crewmen Thursday from a cargo ship that sank in the North Sea after a collision with another vessel
Peru asks UN court to set sea border with Chile
Peru asked the U.N.'s highest court Monday to set a maritime border between it and Chile, in a case that could greatly expand the amount of rich seas ...
Serbia seeks evidence against freed Croat generals
Serbia asked U.N. war crimes prosecutors on Monday to hand over evidence against two Croatian generals whose convictions have been overturned, ...
Former Ivory Coast leader's wife wanted by ICC
The International Criminal Court unsealed an indictment Thursday against former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo's wife on charges including ...
Serb nationalists burn Croatian flag in anger
Serb nationalists burned a Croatian flag Saturday to protest a decision by a U.N. war crimes court overturning guilty verdicts against two Croatian ...
Joy in Croatia as UN overturns 2 key convictions
Chanting "Victory! Victory!," waving red-and-white checkered flags and dancing in the streets, tens of thousands of jubilant supporters gave two ...
Dutch queen swears in new government
Queen Beatrix swore in a new centrist Dutch government under Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday, even as the conservative leader faced harsh ...
Last trial under way at Yugoslav war crimes court
Twenty years after war in Croatia catapulted Goran Hadzic from warehouse worker to rebel Serb president, he is in the dock in the final trial of the ...
Karadzic denies claims he masterminded killings
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic cast himself as a "mild man, a tolerant man" as he opened his defense Tuesday in his long-running genocide ...
Nigerian farmers sue Shell in Dutch court
Nigerian farmers asked a Dutch court Thursday to rule that oil company Shell is liable for poisoning their fish ponds and farmland with leaking ...
Lawyer to ICC: Don't let Libya try Gadhafi's son
A lawyer for the son and one-time heir-apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi warned the International Criminal Court on Wednesday that its ...
Court mulls where Gadhafi's son should be tried
Libya said Tuesday it should be allowed to prosecute one of former dictator Moammar Gadhafi's sons for crimes against humanity, but his lawyers ...
Syrian activists: airstrikes kill at least 30
Regime airstrikes hit a gas station in northern Syria Thursday, setting off a fiery explosion that killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens, ...
Dutch queen underlines commitment to euro
The Netherlands' Queen Beatrix underlined her country's commitment to the euro during her annual address to Parliament about the national budget on ...
Dutch prepare for conservative-Labor coalition
Work to build a new ruling Dutch coalition started Thursday, after conservative leader Mark Rutte bucked a European trend by winning an election ...
Ruling Dutch party claims victory in elections
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte claimed victory early Thursday for his conservative VVD party in national elections widely seen as a referendum on the ...
Dutch vote could affect how EU tackles debt crisis
Dutch voters on Wednesday were picking a new parliament in a test of support for stringent austerity measures which are set to influence the way the ...
Dutch leaders hit streets on last day of campaign
Job creation was the hot topic Tuesday a day before the Dutch parliamentary election. Voters are worried about jobs even though the Netherlands has ...
Israeli model rallies support for Gadhafi son
An imprisoned son of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is getting help from an unlikely source: an Israeli actress and model who says she had a ...
Stoner voters targeted in Dutch election campaign
With slogans like "Don't let your vote go up in smoke!", owners of the free-wheeling cafes where bags of hashish are sold alongside cups of coffee are ...
Tutu: Bush, Blair should face trial at the Hague
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu called Sunday for Tony Blair and George Bush to face prosecution at the International Criminal Court for their ...
Lugar, Nunn honored for nuclear security efforts
U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar and former Sen. Sam Nunn were honored Wednesday for their role in helping ex-Soviet states secure and dismantle huge stocks ...
Libya: Gadhafi's son's trial in September in Libya
Libya will put deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi's son on trial, defying a demand by the International Criminal Court, the Libyan representative to the ...
A year after crisis, aftershocks rock Ivory Coast
More than a year after 3,000 people died in political violence in Ivory Coast, the nation is being rocked by brazen attacks on military forces by ...