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The British House of Commons clears the way for a non-binding vote on various Brexit options. Parliamentarians adopted an amendment with 329 votes to 302 aimed at...

The Yugoslavia tribunal in The Hague today gives its verdict on the appeal by Radovan Karadzic, the former leader of the Bosnian Serbs during the separation war in Bosnia...

The British police have arrested an Indian billionaire who is suspected of the biggest banking fraud ever in his home country. It is about the jeweler Nirav Modi who arrived in London on Tuesday...

Washington has imposed sanctions against employees of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. From now on, they will no longer receive a visa to conduct research in the US into the conduct of...

A Russian Soyuz rocket was launched from Kazakhstan on Thursday evening to the international space station ISS. Two of the three astronauts aboard the Soyuz had to complete their…

The British House of Commons starts on Wednesday with the discussions about how things should go with the Brexit. The first item to be discussed is the departure from the European Union without agreements.

The EU 'regrets' the outcome of the vote in the British House of Commons and is' disappointed that the UK government has failed to obtain a majority for the withdrawal agreement...

The first suspect who was found guilty of female circumcision in the United Kingdom has now been sentenced to 11 years in prison. The court holds the 37-year-old Ugandan woman...

In fact, in August he would have started a business management course in The Hague: the 17-year-old Charly T. from North Holland. But now he has been in a...

Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague have decided that the former President of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, will be released on conditions, two weeks after he was...

The Iranian secret service has carried out more actions in the Netherlands than killing two opponents in Almere and The Hague.

The long arm of the extremist regime in Tehran reaches far. From the Hague Bezuidenhout to Denmark, Albania and Paris: the ayatollahs do not shy away from being opponents of the...

In view of the imminent Brexit, the number of UK applications for naturalization has increased considerably in many EU countries. This applies, for example, to Germany, Ireland, Portugal and...

Defense and Foreign Affairs are in their stomach with the arrival of an Afghan sports team to the Invictus Games. The Olympic Games for soldiers injured during a broadcast...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague has no indication that there are Dutch among the victims in Strasbourg. The ministry announces that it is the situation in the French...

More than two hundred people from all over the country gathered in yellow vests for the Mauritshuis in The Hague this afternoon. 'The poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer,' they say. 'For a small group it is no longer easy to handle.'

The 31-year-old Briton Matthew Hedges has arrived in Great Britain. He landed on Tuesday morning at London's Heathrow airport. The scientist was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United Arab Emirates last week because of espionage, but got pardon on Monday.

The British authorities have arrested a 48-year-old man after finding two explosives in an apartment. As far as is known, the suspect has no ties with terrorist organizations, reports the police in the British capital.

No criminal offenses were found during the suicide of Slobodan Praljak. The Croatian former general (72) died last November after having taken a drink in the courtroom of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He did this after the judges sentenced him to twenty years in prison. He then became unwell and died more than two hours later in a hospital in The Hague.

The organizers of an anti-brexit demonstration on Saturday in London expect more than 100,000 worried Britons to respond to their call. The 'People's Vote' campaign demands a second referendum on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Citizens must also be given the right to vote on the final agreement, if it comes.

Cyber ​​attacks can be taken quickly against people or organizations involved in cyber attacks. At their summit in Brussels, the EU heads of government commissioned a sanction system to be developed. The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and a few other countries had insisted on this.

Spacemen Aleksej Ovtsjinin and Nick Hague, who had to make an emergency landing on Thursday after their launch, will be able to go into space again next spring. Their flight to the international space station ISS is scheduled for next spring. The head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, Dmitri Rogozin, said that Friday to the Interfax news agency.

The painting Girl with Balloon by the artist Banksy has destroyed herself during an auction of the work at Sotheby's in London. It is clearly a region of the anonymous artist.

Russian hackers from the military intelligence service GROe are also associated with a cyber attack in Belgium. In 2014 they attacked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs there, writes De Standaard.

One of the Russian hackers who, according to the US and the Netherlands, are behind the cyber attacks on, among others, the OPCW in The Hague, is registered at an address in Moscow that has been identified by the Americans as a building of the military intelligence service GROe.

Chile does not have to negotiate with neighboring Bolivia on a corridor to the Pacific Ocean. The International Court of Appeal in The Hague ruled this on Monday. The verdict is a setback for the government of President Evo Morales of Bolivia.

Barack Obama was in Amsterdam on Friday to talk about leadership, not about Donald Trump or current political issues. Yet the former American president could not resist to refer to his successor in the White House in a devious way.

Justice in Switzerland wants to prosecute two Russians to carry out 'a cyber attack' on the world anti-doping agency WADA in Lausanne. In 2016, WADA itself reported that a large batch of medical data from athletes had been captured in a cyber-burglary.

Switzerland demands that Russia stop espionage on its territory. In the past few days two new possible espionage cases have come to light. In The Hague, two people would have been arrested who possibly wanted to hack a Swiss research laboratory. The same men would also have stolen data from the world anti-doping office. That office is located in Switzerland.