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French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Dutch King Willem-Alexander listen to national anthems outside the royal palace on Dam square in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, April 11, 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron begins a two-day state visit to the Netherlands on Tuesday and is making a speech on his vision for the future of Europe. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Macron visits Netherlands after Taiwan comments make waves

By Peter DeJong and Mike Corder - Associated Press

Employees demonstrate the technique of DNA sampling during a press tour of the DNA lab of the International Commission on Missing Persons, ICMP, at the occasion of the opening of their new office in The Hague, Netherlands, Oct. 24, 2017. Ukrainian civil society and rights groups have visited an organization that uses high-tech DNA techniques to identify people who go missing in conflicts and natural disasters, in a move to boost cooperation in the hunt for the missing amid the ongoing war. International Commission on Missing Persons Director-General Kathryne Bomberger said Thursday April 6, 2023, the organization faces unprecedented challenges as it seeks to collect DNA samples and evidence even as fighting continues following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Ukrainian groups learn about DNA use to identify war victims

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

At least one person died and some 30 passengers were injured in the early hours when a train partially derailed, in Voorschoten, near The Hague, Tuesday April 4, 2023, sending at least one carriage into a field next to the tracks. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Train derailment near The Hague kills 1, injures several

By Peter Dejong and Mike Corder - Associated Press

Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci, left, appears before the Kosovo Tribunal as he defends himself against charges including murder, torture and persecution allegedly committed during his country's war for independence from Serbia in the Hague, Monday, April 3, 2023. The trial of Kosovo's ex-president and three other former high-ranking members of the Kosovo Liberation Army charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity opens Monday. (Koen van Weel/Pool via AP)

‘Nobody is above the law’: Kosovo ex-president’s trial opens

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Upside-down Dutch flags fly in protest against the Dutch government's plans to drastically reduce emissions of nitrogen pollutants by the country's agricultural sector, next to a election billboard for the agrarian political BBB Party, BoerBurgerBeweging, or Farmer–Citizen Movement, in Ooststellingwerf, northern Netherlands, Sunday, March 5, 2023. Thousands of demonstrators are expected to join an anti-government protest by farmers' organizations in The Hague, Netherlands, Saturday, March 11, 2023. The protest comes days before Dutch provincial elections on March 15, in which a party representing farmers' interests is expected to perform well. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Farmers, environmental activists hold demos in The Hague

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Extinction Rebellion activists and sympathisers block a busy road in The Hague, Netherlands, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023. Earlier this week seven Extinction Rebellion activists were detained by authorities for sedition linked to the protest. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Climate activists block main road into The Hague

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Rescue workers sift through the rubble of the U.S. Marine base in Beirut in Oct. 23, 1983 following a massive bomb blast that destroyed the base and killed 241 American servicemen. Iran told the United Nation’s highest court on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, that Washington’s confiscation of some $2 billion in assets from Iranian state bank accounts to compensate bombing victims was an attempt to destabilize the Iranian government and a violation of international law. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 ruled money held in Iran’s central bank could be used to compensate victims of the 1983 bombing linked to Iran. (AP Photo, File)

U.S. urges UN court to toss out Iranian frozen assets case

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Karim Ahmed Khan, International Criminal Court chief prosecutor, speaks during a news conference at the Ministry of Justice in the Khartoum, Sudan, Aug. 12, 2021. Representatives of a group of nations working together to investigate war crimes committed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine are meeting Tuesday, May 31, 2022 in The Hague amid ongoing calls for those responsible for atrocities to be brought to justice. Tuesday's coordination meeting at the European Union's judicial cooperation agency, Eurojust, of members of a Joint Investigation Team and International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan comes as Russian forces continue to pound Ukrainian towns with heavy artillery.(AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

War crimes meeting held at Hague over Russia-Ukraine war

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

A member of Team Ukraine looks out over a lake at the Invictus Games venue in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, April 14, 2022. The week-long games for active servicemen and veterans who are ill, injured or wounded opens Saturday in this Dutch city that calls itself the global center of peace and justice. Those concepts seem a world away to the team of 19 athletes from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

For Ukrainian competitors Invictus Games are break from war

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Ukrainian soldiers stand next to a burnt military truck, in a street in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. Russian troops stormed toward Ukraine's capital Saturday, and street fighting broke out as city officials urged residents to take shelter. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine files genocide case against Russia at UN’s top court

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Rohingya refugees gather near a fence during a government-organized media tour, to a no-man's land between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Taungpyolatyar village, Maung Daw, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, June 29, 2018. An international case accusing Myanmar of genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority returns to the United Nations' highest court Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, amid questions over whether the country's military rulers should even be allowed to represent the Southeast Asian nation. (AP Photo/Min Kyi Thein, File)

Myanmar seeks to have Rohingya case thrown out of U.N. court

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

This Wednesday, March 31, 2021, file photo shows the exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. A group of lawyers presented a dossier of evidence to prosecutors at the International Criminal Court on Thursday June 10, 2021, that they say establishes jurisdiction for the global tribunal to investigate allegations Chinese authorities are involved in grave crimes targeting Uyghurs, a largely Muslim ethnic group. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Lawyers urge ICC to probe alleged crimes by China against Uyghurs

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Milieudefensie Director Donald Pols, holding a copy of the verdict, celebrates the outcome in the court case of Milieudefensie, the Dutch arm of the Friends of the Earth environmental organization, against Shell in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, May 26, 2021 In a landmark legal battle of climate change activists in the Netherlands energy giant Shell was ordered to rein in its carbon emissions. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Court orders Royal Dutch Shell to cut net emissions by 45%

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday Aug. 28, 2018 file photo, Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands. The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Wednesday, March 3, 2021 that she has launched an investigation into alleged crimes in the Palestinian territories. Fatou Bensouda said in a statement the probe will be conducted “independently, impartially and objectively, without fear or favor.” (Bas Czerwinski/Pool file via AP, File)

ICC launches war crimes probe into Israeli practices

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Hashim Thaci who resigned as Kosovo's president to face charges including murder, torture and persecution, and his attorney David Hooper, left, make their first courtroom appearance before a judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers court in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. An international prosecutor has indicted Thaci on 10 charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes for his leadership of fighters with the Kosovo Liberation Army who are accused of illegally imprisoning, abusing and murdering captured opponents and perceived traitors during the war. (Jerry Lampen via AP Photo, Pool)

Lawyers for Kosovo suspects: Trial can’t start before 2022

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Dutch farmers pass the gate of Royal Palace Huis ten Bosch in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, during a protest against a new law they argue threatens their livelihoods by reining in emissions of nitrogen oxide. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Dutch farmers protest reining in nitrogen oxide emissions

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Dutch police are seen outside Saudi Arabia's embassy in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, after several shot were fired at the building early in the morning. Nobody was injured and police were investigating. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Dutch police hold suspect after shots fired at Saudi embassy

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Kosovo president Hashim Thaci addresses the nation as he announced his resignation to face war crimes charges in Kosovo capital Pristina on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. Thaci, a guerrilla leader during Kosovo’s war for independence, has resigned in order to face charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity issued by at a special court based in The Hague, Netherlands. Thaci announced his resignation at a news conference on Thursday. He said he was taking the step “to protect the integrity of the presidency of Kosovo.” (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo president resigns to face war crimes charges

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Medical residents take part in a protest against their working conditions during a strike in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. Regional authorities across Spain continue to tighten restrictions against a sharp resurgence of coronavirus infections that is bringing the country’s cumulative caseload close to one million infections, the highest tally in western Europe. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

European nations mixed in their response to virus spikes

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Hysni Gucati head of the War Veterans Organization of the Kosovo Liberation Army looks at a photo of his co-fighter former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Salih Mustafa after news of his arrest, during an interview with The Associated Press, in Pristina, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. A special international court said Thursday that a former commander of the separatist fighters in Kosovo's 1998-1999 war has been arrested as part of a war crimes and crimes against humanity probe stemming from the conflict with Serbia. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

1st Kosovar Albanian arrested on war crimes charges

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press