The Hague

Court Rejects Mladic's Bid To Delay Trial

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 05.16.2012

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Twenty years after Serb forces unleashed a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, their military commander Gen....

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Going Dutch

Michael Hodin | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Retirement Age, European Debt Crisis, Baby Boomers, The Hague, Aging Population, Retirement, Netherlands, Aging-and-Retirement, Dutch, Ageing, Austerity, Fifty News

If the Dutch can manage to bring their forward-thinking social sensibility together with their fiscal prudence, they may end up setting a model that the rest of Europe and the world can follow.

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Sierra Leone: Landmark Conviction of Liberian Ex-President Charles Taylor

Human Rights Watch | Posted 04.26.2012

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(The Hague) – The conviction on April 26, 2012, of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, for serious international crimes during Sier...

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Christopher Hitchens Meets Kim Jong Il and the Class of 2011

MP Nunan | Posted 02.18.2012

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Inside what looks like the bar in an airport departures terminal. It's dimly lit, with dark wooden tables and faux leather chairs failing to give the ...

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UN Aims To Start Mladic Trial March 27

AP | Posted 02.07.2012

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal is aiming to start Gen. Ratko Mladic's genocide trial March 27, but Mladic and his law...

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Prosecutors Seek To Arrest Another Sudan Official For War Crimes

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Omar Al-Bashir, Darfur Genocide, Sudan, Sudan War Crimes, Darfur Sudan, Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein, International Criminal Court, The Hague, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court prosecutor sought an arrest warrant Friday for Sudan's defense minister on crimes agai...

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Prosecutors Seek To Arrest Another Sudan Official For War Crimes

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Omar Al-Bashir, Darfur Genocide, Sudan, Sudan War Crimes, Darfur Sudan, Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein, International Criminal Court, The Hague, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court prosecutor sought an arrest warrant Friday for Sudan's defense minister on crimes agai...

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Memo to Mississippi: State's Violence, Poverty and Education Levels Key to Saving Lives, Not Initiative 26

Michael Shank | Posted 01.07.2012

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If the State of Mississippi is ultimately trying to save lives with Initiative 26 and reduce its high teenage pregnancy rate -- one of the highest in America -- it should focus on prevention instead.

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Terror Threat? Climate Change Shrinking Plants and Animals Part of Bigger Global Security Threat

Michael Shank | Posted 12.19.2011

This week's announcement that climate change is shrinking plant and animal species and is likely to have a negative impact on human nutrition in the f...

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U.S. Defense Secretary Panetta's Refusal to Cut Pentagon Spending Puts America at Greater Risk

Michael Shank | Posted 12.13.2011

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Refusal by US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Members of Congress, and now the Super Committee, to cut US defense spending puts our country on a dange...

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'Women, War & Peace' is a Must-See Series

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 12.13.2011

This groundbreaking series must be seen.

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Republican Presidential Candidates' Anti-EPA Extremism & Rep Darrell Issa's Effort to Enable Car Emissions

Michael Shank | Posted 12.03.2011

Since "climategate" first broke the news two years ago, American efforts to enact effective climate policy at the federal level have been significantly undermined by a confluence of events.

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On 10th Anniversary of Afghan War, Time to Exit Militarized US Foreign Policy

Michael Shank | Posted 11.28.2011

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October 7 marks the tenth anniversary of the US war in Afghanistan. After expending $4 trillion and thousands of lives, the US needs an exit from the depressing impasse of its militarized foreign policy.

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Dutch Royal House Denounced Over 'Racist' Painting

AP | By TOBY STERLING | Posted 11.16.2011

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AMSTERDAM -- Critics urged the Dutch royal family Friday to get rid of a painting they say is an offensive reminder of wrongs from the Netherlands' co...

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Gaddafi And The Pursuit Of International Justice

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 10.24.2011

When Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, announced on Monday morning that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi had ...

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Settlement Reached Over Looted Painting

AP | Posted 10.15.2011

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AMSTERDAM -- Lawyers for the U.S. heir of a Jewish art dealer who lost many paintings while fleeing the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands say she has...

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Balkan War Suspect Declines To Plead Before Tribunal

AP | By ARTHUR MAX | Posted 09.24.2011

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The wartime leader of Croatia's rebel Serbs declined to enter a plea Monday in his first court appearance to face charges of...

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Congo Selects Former Vice President As Opposition Presidential Candidate

AP | Posted 09.23.2011

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KINSHASA, Congo -- Congo's opposition party says it has chosen former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba as its presidential candidate for November elec...

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Rwandan Woman Becomes First Female Convicted Of Genocide

AP | By SUKHDEV CHHATBAR | Posted 08.24.2011

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ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) -- The U.N. Court trying suspects of the 1994 Rwanda genocide found a female former government minister and her son guilty of wa...

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Serbia Denies Hiding Alleged War Criminal Mladic

AP | Posted 08.10.2011

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BELGRADE, Serbia -- Ratko Mladic was treated in a Serbian military hospital nearly a decade ago, but after that the army did not help him hide, the co...

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Mladic Joining Who's Who Of Accuesed Mass Murders In The Hague

Reuters | By Ivana Sekularac and Aaron Gray-Block | Posted 07.31.2011

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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - When Ratko Mladic, nicknamed "the butcher of Bosnia," arrives at the international war crimes detention center in the Hague, h...

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Mladic Extradited To The Hague

AP | MIKE CORDER and DUSAN STOJANOVIC | Posted 07.31.2011

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic was placed in a U.N. detention unit Tuesday to await trial on genoc...

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Libya and Liberals: Confessions of a Minion of the Military-Industrial Complex

Dr. Jonathan David Farley | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Cruise Missile, Juan Cole, Libya, Raytheon, Military-Industrial Complex, The Hague, Scipio Africanus, Politics News

If I were the Secret Service, I'd be investigating me about now. There is a 2006 photo of me sitting next to Senator Ted Kennedy, Congresswoman Jo An...

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Libyan Slaughter Cannot Go Unanswered

Diana Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The International Criminal Court's commitment to investigate crimes against humanity in Libya is sending a strong message that the world's most powerf...

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U.N. Suspends Libya From Human Rights Council

AP/The Huffington Post | By ANITA SNOW | Posted 05.25.2011

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. General Assembly suspended Libya from its top human rights body as governments worldwide pressured Muammar Gaddafi to ...

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