World news about “International Court of Justice” published by euronews.
UN court rules against Italy’s Nazi claims The UN’s top court ruled on Friday that Germany has immunity from foreign lawsuits by victims of the Nazi regime seeking compensation. The 15-member… 03/02/2012
Mladic removed from war crimes court – nocomment Ratko Mladic has refused to enter a plea at the UN war crimes court in The Hague, angrily demanding more time to appoint his own lawyers. The chief judge… 04/07/2011
Tadic presses on with Serbia’s EU bid Serbia wants to move faster towards joining the European Union now that war crimes indictee Ratko Mladic is in custody. In an interview with euronews… 02/06/2011
Former Ivory Coast president faces trialThe former president of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, has appeared at a pre-trial hearing at the International Criminal Court at the Hague in the… 05/12/2011
Gaddafi’s son ‘seeking to give himself up’The International Criminal Court is investigating reports that Muammar Gaddafi’s son is seeking to give himself up. A Libyan official from the National… 28/10/2011
Gaddafi son offers to surrender to ICC claims NTCLibyan officials are claiming Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam has proposed surrendering to the International Criminal Court rather than suffer the same… 27/10/2011
Jordan’s King shakes up government againAn eminent Jordanian judge Awn Khaswaneh has been named the country’s new prime minister in a major shake up of the government ordered by King Abdullah. The… 17/10/2011
War crimes court to probe Ivory Coast atrocitiesThe international war crimes court has confirmed it will investigate allegations of killings and rapes in Ivory Coast after disputed presidential elections… 03/10/2011
Hadzic refuses to enter plea in courtSerbia’s last major war crimes suspect, Goran Hadzic, refused to enter a plea when he appeared before a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the… 25/07/2011
Court ruling on ancient temple disputeThailand and Cambodia were ordered to pull their troops out of a newly defined demilitarised zone around an ancient border temple on Monday. The… 18/07/2011
Judges set rule on Gaddafi arrest warrantThe International Criminal Court is deliberating whether to issue an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The judges will also discuss whether… 26/06/2011
NATO chief rejects Italian call for ceasefireNATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Thursday rejected an Italian call to suspend airstrikes. Rasmussen told French daily Le Figaro that the… 23/06/2011
Brazilian court allows Italian killer to walk freeItalian politicians hit out at Thursday’s decision by Brazil’s Supreme Court to block the extradition of a fugitive convicted of four murders in Italy in the… 09/06/2011
Italian anger as Brazil frees BattistiConvicted Italian murderer Cesare Battisti is a free man after the Supreme Court in Brazil rejected Rome’s bid to have him extradited to his… 09/06/2011
Mladic in the dockFormer Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic made his first appearance in front of the UN War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague on Friday. At 69 he looked… 04/06/2011
Mladic lands in The Hague to face genocide trialThe aircraft carrying Ratko Mladic to face genocide charges at the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague has landed at Rotterdam airport. The former Bosnian Serb… 31/05/2011
Mladic flown to The HagueA heavily armed convoy took Ratko Mladic from the prison where he had been held since his arrest last week to the airport in Belgrade. A plane carrying the… 31/05/2011
Thousands rally in support of Ratko MladicAround 10,000 Bosnian Serbs have rallied in a show of support for their wartime commander Ratko Mladic. Hundreds of war veterans were among those who joined… 31/05/2011
Judge clears Mladic for war-crimes trialA court in Belgrade has ruled that Ratko Mladic is fit enough to be extradited to The Hague to be tried for genocide. The once fearsome Bosnian Serb general… 27/05/2011
World court drops Georgia’s case against RussiaThe UN’s highest court has dropped a case brought against Russia by Georgia. Moscow is accused of rights abuses in the breakaway South Ossetia and Abkhazia… 02/04/2011
Morales to sue for Bolivian access to PacificBolivian President Evo Morales says he is going to the international courts to demand access to the Pacific Ocean for his landlocked country. He said talks… 24/03/2011
Taylor’s lawyer says war-crimes trial is a ‘farce’The lawyer defending the former Liberian president Charles Taylor on war-crimes charges has stormed out of court after angry exchanges with the… 08/02/2011
Bashir Kenya visit risks rift with ICCThe signing of Kenya’s new constitution on Friday has been overshadowed by the attendance of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the… 27/08/2010
Kosovo celebrates UN independence rulingThere have been scenes of celebration in Kosovo following a UN ruling that the country’s declaration of independence was legal. The Balkan state has been… 23/07/2010
ICJ to rule on Kosovo independencePristina’s ethnic Albanians have been living the reality of Kosovo’s self-declared nationhood since 2008 but today is crunch time when international law… 22/07/2010
UN court to rule on legality of Kosovo independenceRussia and the US are going head to head in the Hague over Kosovo’s 2008 unilateral declaration of independence. Arguments over its legality are being… 09/12/2009
UN court probes legality of Kosovo independenceThe highest UN court has opened hearings into the legality of Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence. Serbia launched the legal challenge in the Hague… 01/12/2009
Kosovan independence goes on trialThe UN’s highest court will today begin examining the legality of Kosovo’s self-declared independence from Serbia. Fifteen judges of the International… 01/12/2009
ICC hears of child soldier hell in first caseProsecutors at the war crimes trial of a Congolese militia leader claim he trained child soldiers to kill, pillage and rape. Thomas Lubanga, leader of the… 26/01/2009
Serbia pledges to bring war crimes caseSerbia says it will bring charges against Croatia after the UN’s highest court agreed to hear accusations it committed genocide during the Bosnian war. The… 19/11/2008
UN court says Serbia bound by Genocide ConventionThe International Court of Justice in the Hague, the UN’s highest court, has decided it does have jurisdiction to examine Croatia’s accusation that Serbia… 18/11/2008
UN court agrees to hear genocide case against SerbiaOn the day the UN ruled it could consider Croatia’s accusation of genocide against Serbia, Croats have been remembering victims of the war between the two… 18/11/2008
