Ukraine has accused Russia of misusing genocide law to justify its invasion. Russia claims it intervened in Ukraine to stop a genocide against ethnic Russians. Ukraine has taken Russia to the International Court of Justice, the highest court within the UN. Russia has urged the International Court of Justice to dismiss the case brought against … Read more
Pakistan strongly condemned desecration of Holy Quran in The Hague, Netherlands. Foreign Office called on the global community to raise voice against Islamophobia. A Dutch far-right activist desecrated a copy of the Holy Quran outside the Turkish embassy. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has strongly condemned another provocative and deeply offensive act of desecration of the Holy Quran in … Read more
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged Lebanese authorities to accept the judgement of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Two members of Hezbollah were sentenced to life in prison for their involvement in the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri. The former Lebanese PM was killed by a suicide bomber on the Beirut beachfront. NEW YORK: UN … Read more
After serving 20 years in prison for her role in a 1974 embassy siege, the co-founder of the Japanese Red Army militant group has been released. Before being apprehended in Osaka, Fusako Shigenobu, 76, had eluded capture for decades. Her once-feared organization had planned to use high-profile terror attacks to spark a global socialist revolution. … Read more
The Hague: On Tuesday, an accused Janjaweed militia leader pleaded not guilty to hundreds of allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court’s first trial dealing with Sudan’s almost two-decade-old Darfur crisis. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman is charged with supervising thousands of pro-government Janjaweed warriors who committed persecution, murder, rape, … Read more
THE HAGUE, Dec 16, 2021 (AFP) – The EU’s drug regulator said on Thursday it would decide whether the Novavax coronavirus jab will become the fifth vaccine approved for the bloc at a meeting next Monday. The US firm’s shot uses a more traditional technology than current vaccines, which experts hope could ease hesitancy and scepticism … Read more
THE HAGUE, Dutch health authorities said Saturday that 61 passengers from two flights from South Africa tested positive for Covid-19 and the results were being examined for the new Omicron variant. The people who tested positive were now being quarantined in a hotel near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, where the 600 people on board the two planes from … Read more
THE HAGUE – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday announced Western Europe’s first partial lockdown of the winter, with three weeks of Covid curbs on restaurants, shops and sporting events. Protesters set off fireworks in The Hague after Rutte unveiled the “annoying and far-reaching” measures following a record spike of infections to more than … Read more
