Dutch police break up anti-government protest on eve of election
National elections are taking place in the Netherlands over the next three days.
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The charges relate to his time as a guerrilla leader in the country’s war for independence.
The tribunal’s long-awaited decision comes two weeks after a cataclysmic blast at Beirut port.
Mark Rutte today announced the recent death of his 96-year-old mother in a care home in The Hague.
The demonstration comes a day before a debate in parliament on how to rein in emissions of the pollutant nitrogen oxide.
Dutch police say the motive for the stabbing in The Hague remains unknown.
Police say they are are still searching for the suspect.
Prosecutors claim the patient may have had second thoughts about dying.
Karadzic (73) was notorious for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
Colm Doyle has written a book about his time mediating between Serb and Croat leaders during the Bosnian War.
Slobodan Praljak shouted out “Praljak is not a criminal. I reject your verdict”, immediately before bringing a brown bottle to his lips.
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The 74 year old faced 11 charges, including genocide and crimes against humanity, at the UN tribunal.
More than 870 bunkers of different shapes and sizes were constructed of reinforced concrete by the Nazis in 1942 to repel any Allied invasion of Europe.
Europe’s crime agency are publishing one fugitive from one member state per day.
About 200 protesters had gathered for the demonstration, organised under the slogan “Stop oppression against anti-facists and anarchists”.
Tobacco giant Philip Morris had taken the action over plain-packaging.
The former Bosnian Serb leader was sentenced to four decades in jail over the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II.
The International Criminal Court has convicted Jean-Pierre Bemba on five charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The United Nations has condemned the country’s human rights records.
Henk Zanoli and his family were given the award for shielding a Jewish boy from the Nazis during World War II.
Argentine officials argue the US court decisions violated its sovereignty.
It was unanimously held that Russian authorities forced Yukos into bankruptcy.
Ratko Mladic faces 11 charges for his role in Bosnia’s brutal 1992-95 conflict in which 100,000 people died.
The team charged with the destruction of the weapons began the process this morning, a source in the international mission has said.
The team will head to The Hague to assess the evidence gathered during their probe.
The former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj had been accused of murder and torture during the Kosovo war – but has been found not guilty.
Radovan Karadzic opens his defence before the UN’s Yugoslav war crimes court today.
Tutu said the invasion of Iraq left the world more destabilised and divided than any other conflict in history and had “hardened hearts and minds of members of the human family across the world”.
Col Colm Doyle says Irish officers are in a ‘unique position’ for peacekeeping duties, given Ireland’s neutrality.
The trial of war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic got underway yesterday.
The former Bosnian Serb military chief is accused of genocide and crimes against humanity.
The former Liberian leader was convicted of crimes of the “utmost gravity in terms of scale and brutality” according to judges.
Lawyers for the so-called Butcher of Bosnia were refused their request for a six-month delay.
A new starting date will be established “as soon as possible” but Mladic’s lawyer has asked for a six-month delay.
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Bosnian Serb commander is set to stand trial on genocide and other charges next month.