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Kosovo president visits prosecutors who indicted him

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Hague court: Italy has jurisdiction in 2012 Indian shooting

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

5 surfers die in stormy weather off Dutch coast

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In this July 9, 2018, file photo, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir attends a ceremony for Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey. A top Sudanese official said Monday, Feb. 11, 2020, that transitional authorities and rebel groups have agreed to hand over al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court for war crimes, including mass killings in Darfur. Since his ouster in April, al-Bashir has been in jail in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum over charges corruption and killing protesters. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Sudan to hand over Omar al-Bashir for genocide trial, official says

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Dutch police secure a shopping street after a stabbing incident in the center of The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. Dutch police say multiple people have been injured in a stabbing incident in The Hague's main shopping street. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

Dutch police arrest suspect in stabbing of 3 teens

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Dutch police block a shopping street after a stabbing incident in the center of The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. Dutch police say multiple people have been injured in a stabbing incident in The Hague's main shopping street. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

The Latest: Victims in Hague stabbing released from hospital

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Protesting farmers block a main road leading to the center of The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. Thousands of Dutch farmers protest over the Netherlands efforts to drastically reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Among the farmers' demands are that the government does not further reduce the number of animals they can keep. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch farmers protest efforts to cut emissions, reduce herds

By MIKE CORDER and PETER DEJONG - Associated Press

In this Jan. 1, 2019, image, burnt bicycles are seen on the beach in Scheveningen, near The Hague. A safety watchdog has published a scathing report into a giant New Year's Eve bonfire on a beach in The Hague that sent a blizzard of glowing embers onto nearby streets and buildings. The Dutch Safety Board report criticizes both the city's municipality for lax regulation and the builders of the giant stack of wooden pallets for breaching agreements about its size and the use of accelerants to help ignite the stack. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Dutch safety board issues scathing report into NYE bonfire

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Tractors are lined up during a protest in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019, as thousands of Dutch farmers headed to The Hague on Tuesday, many driving in slow-moving convoys of tractors that snarled traffic in the morning rush hour, for a national day of protest to demand more respect for their profession. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Angry Dutch farmers descend on The Hague to demand respect

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo together with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and mayor Pauline Krikke at the opening of the Global Entrepeneurship Summit 2019 in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, June 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

Pompeo warns Europe: China ‘spreading authoritarian vision’ worldwide

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic enters the court room of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, March 20, 2019. Nearly a quarter of a century since Bosnia's devastating war ended, Karadzic is set to hear the final judgment on whether he can be held criminally responsible for unleashing a wave of murder and destruction. United Nations appeals judges will on Wednesday rule whether to uphold or overturn Karadzic's 2016 convictions for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, as well as his 40-year sentence. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

U.N. judges increase sentence for Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian ex-leader, to life

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 1992 file photo, Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian Serb leader in Bosnia-Herzegovina, indicates the Serb territories in Yugoslavia during a news conference in London. Nearly a quarter of a century since Bosnia’s devastating war ended, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is set to hear the final judgment on whether he can be held criminally responsible for unleashing a wave of murder and destruction during Europe’s bloodiest carnage since World War II. United Nations appeals judges on Wednesday March 20, 2019, will decide whether to uphold or overturn Karadzic’s 2016 convictions for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and his 40-year sentence. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin, File)

The Latest: Views of Bosnia war crimes case vary within govt

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In this Monday, April 16, 2018, file photo, people stand in front of damaged buildings, in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) ** FILE **

Chemical weapons watchdog says chlorine was used in Douma, Syria

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2019, file photo, supporters of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo celebrate outside the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, after judges ruled that Gbagbo and a former government minister should be released immediately following their acquittal on charges of involvement in deadly post-election violence in 2010. The acquittal at the International Criminal Court is causing some to celebrate his pending release but others fear a repeat of the deadly 2010-2011 post-election violence that led him to The Hague. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Will Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo, acquitted at ICC, return home?

By ALEXIS ADELE - Associated Press

In this Monday, Jan. 7, 2019 photo, former Kosovo Liberation Army fighter Sabahajdin Cena looks at his dog's kennel, in the town of Rahovec. Two decades after Kosovo’s 1998-99 war of independence, a court in The Hague has summoned a small group of former freedom fighters for questioning about their roles in the bloody campaign. Cena was a top former fighter in Pashtrik area, 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of the capital, Pristina, during the war. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo court facing tough challenges in search for justice

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen, center, arrives for a General Affairs Council meeting at the Europa building in Brussels, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) ** FILE **

EU blacklists Iranian intel service over assassination plots

By Jan. M. Olsen and Lorne Cook - Associated Press

German Minister of State for European Affairs Michael Roth, right, speaks with the media as he arrives for a General Affairs Council meeting at the Europa building in Brussels, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. Top European Union officials ruled out Tuesday any renegotiation of the divorce agreement with Britain as Prime Minister Theresa May launched her fight to save her Brexit deal by lobbying leaders in Europe's capitals. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

The Latest: May doesn’t answer reports of office challenge

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Correction: Chevron-Ecuador-Lawyer story

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo briefs reporters at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. Pompeo has announced that the U.S. is canceling a 1955 treaty with Iran establishing economic relations and consular rights between the two nations. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

US terminates 1955 treaty with Iran after UN court ruling

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

People stand in front of damaged buildings, in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 16, 2018. Faisal Mekdad, Syria’s deputy foreign minister, said on Monday that his country is &quot;fully ready&quot; to cooperate with the fact-finding mission from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that's in Syria to investigate the alleged chemical attack that triggered U.S.-led airstrikes. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Chemical weapons team in Syria kept from alleged attack site

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press