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FILE - Seats of the judges at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, May 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Top U.N. court sets a December date for the start of hearings in a landmark climate change case

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - A view of the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, on Jan. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Post, File)

Top U.N. court says Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian territories is illegal and must end

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Tulips flower outside the Peace Palace housing the World Court, or International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Mexico is taking Ecuador to the United Nations' top court on Tuesday accusing the nation of violating international law by storming into the Mexican embassy in Quito on April 5 and arresting former Ecuador Vice President Jorge Glas, who had been holed up there seeking asylum in Mexico. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Ecuador defends raid on the Mexican Embassy and tells top U.N. court it acted to take in a criminal

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

A pro-Palestinian activist works on a protest poster near the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 8, 2024, prior to the start of a two days hearing in a case brought by Nicaragua accusing Germany of breaching the genocide convention by providing arms and support to Israel. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Germany rejects allegations that it’s facilitating acts of genocide in Gaza at U.N. court

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Riyad Al-Maliki, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority, center, and Riyad Mansour, representative of the Palestinian National Authority at the U.N., right, take their seats at the United Nations' highest court which opened historic hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. Six days of hearings opened Monday at the top United Nations court into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Palestinian diplomat accuses Israel of apartheid, asks U.N. court to declare its occupation illegal

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

A view of the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, on Jan. 26, 2024. The United Nations' highest court opens historic hearings Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, into the legality of Israel's 57-year occupation of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, plunging the 15 international judges back into the heart of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Patrick Post, File)

Top U.N. court to hold hearings on legality of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian-claimed lands

By Mike Corder and Julia Frankel - Associated Press

Presiding judge Joan Donoghue, center, reads the International Court of Justice's, the United Nations top court, ruling in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, on whether it has jurisdiction to hear a case filed by Ukraine in the days after Russia's invasion accusing Moscow of breaching the genocide convention. In the highly-charged case, Kyiv claims that Russia breached the landmark 1948 convention by using trumped-up claims of genocide in the eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk as a pretext for attacking Ukraine nearly two years ago. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

U.N.’s top court says it has jurisdiction in part of Ukraine’s genocide case against Russia

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Palestinians look at their neighbour's damaged house following an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Airstrike kills 3 Palestinians in southern Gaza as Israel presses on with its war against Hamas

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A view of the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Israel is set to hear whether the United Nations' top court will order it to end its military offensive in Gaza during a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

6 things the United Nations is ordering Israel to do about its operation in Gaza

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Antisemitism against Israel in The Hague illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

South Africa and other antisemitic genocidaires accuse Israel of genocide

By Clifford D. May

Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, outside a morgue in Rafah, southern Gaza, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Where does the rest of the world stand on the allegations that Israel is committing genocide?

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

South Africa's Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola, center, and Palestinian assistant Minister of Multilateral Affairs Ammar Hijazi, right, address the media outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. The United Nations' top court opens hearings Thursday into South Africa's allegation that Israel's war with Hamas amounts to genocide against Palestinians, a claim that Israel strongly denies. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Live updates | Israel rejects genocide case as Mideast tensions rise after US-led strikes in Yemen

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Israeli soldiers store ammunition in a staging area at the Israeli-Gaza border in southern Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. The army said Monday that several thousand troops would be taken out of Gaza in the coming weeks. Some will head to bases for further training or rest, while many older reservists will go home. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israel says it will defend itself against genocide accusations at world court filed by South Africa

By Melanie Lidman and Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

FILE - View of the Peace Palace which houses World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, on Sept. 19, 2023. South Africa has launched a case at the United Nations’ top court accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and asking the court to order Israel to halt its attacks. South Africa’s submission filed Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, at the International Court of Justice alleges that “acts and omissions by Israel ... are genocidal in character”.. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

South Africa launches case at United Nations’ top court accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Homes stand in the village of Surama in the Rupununi area of the Essequibo, a territory in dispute with Venezuela, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. Venezuela has long claimed Guyana’s Essequibo region — a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals. (AP Photo/Juan Pablo Arraez)

Venezuela’s planned vote over territory dispute leaves Guyana residents on edge

By Juan Arraez and Regina Garcia Cano - Associated Press

Demonstrators hold pictures of people they say disappeared in Syria outside the World Court, where preliminary hearings opened in a case in which the Netherlands and Canada are suing Syria at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, the United Nations' highest judicial organ, in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, accusing Damascus of massive human rights violations against its own people. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Canada and the Netherlands take Syria to top U.N. court, accuse Damascus of widespread torture

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

View of the Peace Palace which houses World Court where Ukraine's legal battle against Russia over allegations of genocide used by Moscow to justify its 2022 invasion, resumed in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. Russia seeks to have a groundbreaking case tossed out at the International Court of Justice, also known as the Word Court, in a case which will see Ukraine supported by a record 32 other nations in a major show of support for the embattled nation. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Russia urges U.N.’s top court to toss out Ukrainian case that seeks to halt Moscow’s invasion

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

The U.N. flag flies outside the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, July 13, 2023, where the United Nations' highest court deliveres its judgment in a long-running maritime border dispute between Nicaragua and Colombia. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Top U.N. court rejects Nicaragua’s case in a long-running maritime dispute with Colombia

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

This file photo shows an exterior view of the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands on Feb. 18, 2019. Hearings open Tuesday, June 6, 2023, at the United Nations’ highest court in a case brought by Ukraine against Russia linked to Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and arming of rebels in eastern Ukraine in the years before Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) **FILE**

Ukraine brands Russia ‘terrorist state’ to open hearings in case against Russia at top U.N. court

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Iran's agent Tavakol Habibzadeh, center, and delegation members wait for judges to enter the International Court of Justice, the United Nations' top court, which issued its judgment in a dispute between Iran and the United States over frozen Iranian state bank accounts worth some $2 billion, in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, March 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Top U.N. court rejects Iranian bid to free assets frozen by U.S.

By Mike Corder - Associated Press