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Serbia and Montenegro Wednesday contested the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice at The Hague to hear a case brought by Bosnia accusing Serbia's predecessor state Yugoslavia of perpetrating state-sponsored genocide ...

Public hearings on the merits of a case alleging state-sponsored genocide by Serbia and Montenegro opened Monday at the Hague-based International Court of Justice . Proceedings technically began in March 1993, when Bosnia filed a claim [application text;...

Delegates from over 120 member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) concluded their tenth annual, five-day Conference of the State Parties at The Hague Friday, and agreed ...

The Israeli Cabinet voted Sunday to leave Gaza, the last formality in Israeli withdrawal from the region before handing over control to the Palestinian Authority (PA) . However, the Cabinet also voted against demolishing 20 synagogues...

Former Bosnian Croat soldier Miroslav Bralo, on trial for war crime charges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty on...

Rwandan legal representatives arguing Monday at the beginnng of public hearings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague dismissed allegations that Rwandan troops had committed human rights violations in the Democratic Republic...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a case examining the rights of foreigners in death penalty cases. In Medellin v. Dretke , a Mexican citizen was convicted of murder in a Texas state court...

The US State Department announced Wednesday that the United States has withdrawn from a protocol giving the International Court of Justice at the Hague authority to decide disputes between states arising from interpretation of the 1963 Vienna...

Former Bosnian Croat soldier Miroslav Bralo pleaded not guilty Tuesday to war crimes charges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague. Bralo faces nine counts of grave breaches of the Geneva conventions and 12...