The Hague
Dutch 'Partij voor de Vrijheid' PVV leader Geert Wilders talks to the press in the Parliament Building in The Hague, The Netherlands on June 1, 2012 about losing the lawsuit filed against the Dutch state to stop the decision to help the 'Europese Stabiliteits Mechanisme' (European Stability Mechanism) (ESM), an agreement to pay 4.5 billion dollasr to the ESM and a guarantee for another 35 billion, until after the new elections that will take place in September 2012.
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We will now go to the minister for security and justice and should he agree with the extradition we will file and injunction in The Hague and after that we could go to the European Court of Justice ... We are not done.
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Bosco Ntaganda in 2006. And like Thomas Lubanga and all the others who are at The Hague, Ntaganda must also face justice. What is preventing the government from handing over Bosco Ntaganda to the ICC?
While KLA leaders were shaking hands with US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at Rambouillet, Europol (the European Police Organization based in The Hague) was 'preparing a report for European interior and justice ministers on a connection between the KLA and Albanian drug gangs'.More quotes »
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Van Gogh museum unveils new willow watercolor
-- A young Vincent van Gogh was so struck by a dead willow leaning "lonely and melancholy" over a pond near The Hague that he knew at once he had to paint it."I'm going to attack it tomorrow morning," he wrote to his brother Theo on July 26, 1882.The Van Gogh Read more »
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ICC rejects Libya bid to try Gadhafi son
Seif al-Islam in Tripoli, it must first surrender him to the court and then apply to get him back by convincing judges in The Hague he will get a fair trial at home.International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo says his court has evidence linking Read more »
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Serbian presidential vote set for May 6
membership, following the long-awaited arrest of the Bosnian Serb leader Ratko Mladic . He was turned over to a U.N. tribunal in The Hague to face genocide charges.Tadic also has overseen a more conciliatory stance toward Kosovo , a former province that declared Read more »
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Homes destroyed in cross-border attack on Liberia
round of Liberia's war started in 1999. Ex-President Charles Taylor , who is awaiting his verdict on crimes against humanity at The Hague , was accused of using the region to ferry fighters from Liberia into Sierra Leone to fuel that country's war.Kparkar, Read more »
Around the web
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Permanent rescue fund: Court finds Dutch parliament had right to ratify ESM
of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a permanent euro zone rescue fund due to come into effect in July, a court in The Hague ruled yesterday. The court threw out a case taken by right-wing Freedom Party (PVV) leader Geert Wilders, who had argued that 6/1/12 from Irish Times Read more »
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The Hague puts Taylor behind bars for 50 years
Liberian president. Taylor was arrested in March of 2006 while crossing the Cameroon border and was handed over to the ICC in The Hague." The trial itself was perfunctory and proceeded under the US pressure, Mr. Roshchin says: "The US was interested in Taylor`s 6/1/12 from Voice of Russia Read more »
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ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC: 1st Quarter Euro and GBP Equivalent
Hague, 1st June 2012 - The Board of Royal Dutch Shell plc ("RDS") today announced the pounds sterling and euro equivalent dividend payments in respect of the first quarter 2012 interim dividend, which was announced on April 26, 2012 at US$0.43 per A ordinary 6/1/12 from Bloomberg.com Read more »
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Kenya: We Will Co-operate With ICC, Says Githu
willingness to cooperate with the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity facing four Kenyans at The Hague. Muigai has rubbished recent claims by Chief Prosecutor Louis Moreno Ocampo that Kenya's commitment to the process at the 6/1/12 from AllAfrica.com Read more »
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Akufo-Addo Sends Emissaries To The Hague
information available to this paper has it that, Sammy Awuku will leave the shores of Ghana before the end of this week to Hague to be joined later by Ursula Owusu, who currently is out of town to start the mediation exercise to save Kennedy Agyapong from from Ghana Web Read more »