This spring two Russian spies were arrested in The Hague. They were on their way to the Spiez laboratory in Switzerland, which investigated the poison gas attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter, as did the poison gas attacks in Syria.
The French government expressly expressed support to the International Criminal Court (ICC). It is a reaction to the threatening language of the American national security adviser John Bolton. He has already declared the court dead.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague does not seem to intend to change course after threats from the American national security adviser John Bolton. The top advisor of President Donald Trump warned that his country 'will fight back \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; if the court starts an investigation into the actions of Americans in Afghanistan.
The US will impose sanctions on judges of the International Criminal Court in The Hague if they try to bring American citizens to trial. In a harsh speech, National Security Adviser John Bolton called the criminal court 'an attack on our constitution'.
The United States is taking an aggressive stance from Monday to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. If matters are brought against US military personnel, the judges will be sanctioned. That would be the national safety advisor John Bolton going to say during a speech Monday afternoon, writes Reuters news agency.
The nerve poison that recently killed a woman in the English city of Amesbury is chemically identical to the novitsjok that was used for the assassination attempt on the former Russian double spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. This is evident from the research that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague has done at the request of the British authorities. The report was presented Tuesday.
The Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo has definitely excluded opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba as candidate for the presidential elections in December. Reason is his condemnation by the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) for bribery of witnesses and obstruction of justice. In June the ICC spoke to the former warlord surprisingly free of war crimes.
A handshake could just be finished in the Peace Palace in The Hague. There, before the International Court of Justice, the legal teams of Iran and America have been fighting a new round since yesterday. Iran demands from the UN court that US sanctions be reversed.
Iran has stepped to the International Court of Justice in The Hague in order to get US sanctions out of the table. The Islamic Republic states that the US violates a 1955 friendship treaty with the punitive measures. The countries were allies at the time. That changed after the Iranian Revolution.
Pakistan has called the envoy of the Netherlands on the carpet. The country is angry about a cartoon contest of PVV leader Geert Wilders. 'Deep concern has been conveyed about this willful and malicious attempt to put Islam in a bad light,' said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad.
Hajj, the largest pilgrimage in the world, is about to begin. From Sunday evening to Friday evening, the Saudi city of Mecca will visit around three million Muslims from all parts of the world, including several thousand pilgrims from the Netherlands.
The British authorities have overtaken the identity of the man who rode in on pedestrians and cyclists at parliament on Tuesday. According to sources around the government it is about the 29-year-old Salih Khater, report the BBC. He is a British citizen who originally comes from Sudan.
The London police arrested a man on Tuesday morning who had just rammed the barriers around the parliament building with a car. Scotland Yard reports that several pedestrians have been injured.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague advises people to travel to the Indonesian island of Lombok and the nearby Gili Islands.
The Serbian lawyer Dragoslav Ognjanovic (57) was shot dead near his home in Belgrade. According to the police, it looks like a conscious assassination attempt. Ognjanovic was one of the lawyers who defended Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic during the Yugoslavia Tribunal in The Hague.
The London fire brigade fights a big fire on the upper floors of a block of luxury flats in the West Hampstead district. The fire brigade has been torn out with fifteen cars and more than a hundred firefighters in an attempt to extinguish the fire in an apartment building on Inglewood Road in north-west London, the fire brigade reports.
When imposing sanctions on companies that trade with Iran, the United States is no exception for European companies. The US government has not responded to requests from Europe. 'No surprise', responded EU foreign-chef Federica Mogherini.
After almost twenty years, Ethiopia and Eritrea will restore relations. This was decided by the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Eritrean President Isaia Afewerki at a joint summit. The countries are rivals that were almost at war.
The British government has called on Russia to clarify the poison novitsjok that has re-emerged in the south of England. The latest incident in which a British couple is hospitalized in a critical condition follows the poisoning in March of a Russian ex-spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter. The nerve gas Novitsjok was once developed in the Soviet Union as a weapon of mass destruction.
The organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague gets more powers to denounce attacks with banned toxic substances and to designate the perpetrators. Member States have adopted a British proposal to that effect at a special meeting.
The 28-year-old Brit Khalid Ali was found guilty before Tuesday in London for preparing an attack near parliament and making bombs for the Taliban. He was arrested in April 2017 in Parliament Street with three knifes in his pocket.
Amal Clooney is coming to the Netherlands this fall. The international human rights lawyer and wife of George Clooney will be present at the international conference One Young World in The Hague on 18 October. There she talks with former secretary general of the United Nations Kofi Annan.
Carolijn Brouwer is the first Dutch woman to win the sailing race around the world. The 44-year-old pro from Scheveningen was the first to cross the finish line of the eleventh and final stage with her Chinese team Dongfeng in The Hague.
The police in London have arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with the small explosion Tuesday in a subway station in the north of the British capital. He is suspected of possibly causing an explosion to damage and endanger security in the subway, according to British media.
Italy has asked The Hague to recall ships that pick up migrants under the Dutch flag in the Mediterranean. This happened after one of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that coordinate and finance the rescue operations the Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini called a fascist.
Jean-Pierre Bemba, the former Congolese vice president, may leave the prison and join his family in Belgium. The International Criminal Court ICC in The Hague has determined this on Tuesday. The judges spoke to Bemba last week on appeal.
Special detail during the parade on the occasion of the 92nd birthday of Queen: one of the royal guards did not wear the traditional fur hat, but a turban.
The International Criminal Court ICC in The Hague has reversed the war crimes judgment against the Congolese former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba. In June 2016, it was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for crimes against humanity because, under his command, militia members had murdered and raped in the Central African Republic.
The British historian Sir Ian Kershaw, internationally renowned for his research on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, is one of the participants of the festival Crossing Border next autumn in The Hague.
The Benelux, the partnership between the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg that celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, still has plenty of plans for the future. The Heads of State, Prime Ministers and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the three countries meet in Brussels Tuesday to look back and look ahead. Despite the somewhat old-fashioned image, the Netherlands sees the Benelux as 'more relevant than ever'.
