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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

Russia's ambassador Alexander Shulgin, center left, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Georgy Kalamanov, center right, and defense ministry experts Igor Rybalchenko, right, and Viktor Kholstov, left, address the media during a press conference at the Russian embassy in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, April 4, 2018, following a special executive council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) which discussed the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter last month. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

The Latest: Envoy says abstentions show support for Russia

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In this Friday April 21, 2017, image the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are seen in The Hague, Netherlands. The OPCW is holding a special executive council meeting Wednesday April 4, 2018, which will likely discuss the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter last month. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Russia loses vote to join spy poisoning probe; next stop UN

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

In this Friday, Feb. 9, 2018 photo, Shoaib shows a picture of his father who along with 13 others were killed in Afghanistan’s central Ghor Province by gunmen in 2014, during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan. Since the International Criminal Court began collecting material three months ago for a possible war crimes case, it has collected a staggering 1.17 million statements from Afghans who say they were victims. Abdul Wadood Pedram, of the Kabul-based Human Rights and Eradication of Violence Organization said, the statements not only include accounts of alleged atrocities by groups like the Taliban and the Islamic State, but also by Afghan Security Forces and government-affiliated warlords, the U.S.-led coalition, and foreign and domestic spy agencies. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghans submitted 1.17 million war crimes claims to court

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this Friday, Feb. 9, 2018 photo, Hussain Razaee, whose fiancee was among 30 people killed last July when a Taliban suicide bomber rammed his explosives-packed car into a bus carrying employees of the Ministry of Mines, gives an interview to The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan. Abdul Wadood Pedram, of the Kabul-based Human Rights and Eradication of Violence Organization said, the statements not only include accounts of alleged atrocities by groups like the Taliban and the Islamic State, but also by Afghan Security Forces and government-affiliated warlords, the U.S.-led coalition, and foreign and domestic spy agencies. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Court received 1.17 million war crimes claims from Afghans

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday Sept. 7, 2004 file image made from TV, Slobodan Milosevic, second from top left, appears before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, The Netherlands. After nearly a quarter century of prosecuting Balkan wars atrocities, the United Nations’ Yugoslav war crimes tribunal is closing down with no fugitives left on the run, many major suspects convicted but denial of crimes and glorification of war criminals still rife in the region. (ICTY, File via AP)

After nearly 25 years, Yugoslav court to close its doors

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the ICTY on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, Slobodan Praljak brings a bottle to his lips, during a Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. Praljak yelled, &quot;I am not a war criminal!&quot; and appeared to drink from a small bottle, seconds after judges reconfirmed his 20-year prison sentence for involvement in a campaign to drive Muslims out of a would-be Bosnian Croat ministate in Bosnia in the early 1990s. (ICTY via AP)

The Latest: Praljak lawyer doesn’t know how he got poison

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In this photo provided by the ICTY on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, Slobodan Praljak brings a bottle to his lips, during a Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. Praljak yelled, &quot;I am not a war criminal!&quot; and appeared to drink from a small bottle, seconds after judges reconfirmed his 20-year prison sentence for involvement in a campaign to drive Muslims out of a would-be Bosnian Croat ministate in Bosnia in the early 1990s. (ICTY via AP)

Slobodan Praljak, war criminal from Croatia, drinks poison in court and dies

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

A May 29, 2011 file photo shows Bosnian Serb protesters holding posters depicting former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic, during a protest in Mladic's hometown of Kalinovik, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (AP Photo/Amel Emric, File)

The Latest: Kosovo welcomes verdict for Serb military leader

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Prime Minister Mark Rutte's party successfully beat back a challenge from populist candidate Geert Wilders in Dutch parliamentary elections. (Associated Press)

Mark Rutte beats Geert Wilders in Netherlands elections

By Gordon Darroch and Austin Davis — Special to The Washington Times

Dutch riot police surround detained suspects at Schilderswijk district in The Hague, Netherlands, in the early hours of Friday, July 3, 2015. Dutch police have detained some 200 people for ignoring a ban on public assembly imposed in a neighborhood hit by days of late-night rioting following the death in police custody of a man arrested at a music festival. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

The Hague hit by riots after death of man in police custody; 200 detained

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Lt. Gen. Omar Bashir, president of Sudan, has been banned from leaving South Africa because of an international order for his arrest. (Associated Press)

Omar Bashir, facing ICC war criminal arrest warrant, barred from leaving South Africa

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the United Nations, Palestinian Ambassador to the U.N. Riyad Mansour addresses the media at U.N. headquarters after submitting documents to join the International Criminal Court on Friday, Jan. 2, 2015. The Palestinians moved quickly to join the court after suffering a defeat in the U.N. Security Council, which rejected a resolution Tuesday that would have set a three-year deadline for the establishment of a Palestinian state on lands occupied by Israel. (AP Photo/UN Photo, Evan Schneider)

Israel withholds Palestinian tax revenues after International Criminal Court move

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FILE - In this file photo taken Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas said Wednesday, Dec. 31, that he is still weighing his options after a resounding defeat in the U.N. Security Council. But the Palestinian leader is hinting that he could join the International Criminal Court in the very near future - a move that would put him on a collision course with Israel. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Palestinians to press war-crimes case against Israel

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press

Dutch police have been evicting immigrants who have been staying in the Netherlands after their applications for asylum have been rejected. The government has taken an increasingly hard line on immigration to try to allay public concerns about overcrowding. (Associated Press)

Dutch battle surge of desperate, violent Muslim refugees

By Gordon Darroch — Special to The Washington Times

Environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "ain't compromising his lifestyle," writes Liberal Bully of the Week author Rusty Humphries. Mr. Kennedy and his new bride, actress Cheryl Hines, bought a $5 million manse in Malibu. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

HUMPHRIES: Liberal Bully of the Week: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

By Rusty Humphries

The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) is enveloped in fog Feb. 11, 2014, as it sits in its berth in San Diego. (DoD photo by Glenn Fawcett/Released)

Pentagon wrestles with false climate predictions as military funds shifted to green agenda

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times