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Dutch prosecutors call for life terms for MH17 suspects

The four suspects on trial are Russian nationals Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky and Oleg Pulatov, and Ukrainian citizen Leonid Kharchenko, accused of launching the BUK missile that…

Two decades after the theft of Picasso’s ‘Buste de femme’ and with no clues to its whereabouts, the French police were stumped. (Reuters)

Stolen Picasso unearthed by ‘Indiana Jones of art’

The theft of the Picasso, valued at around $7-million at the time, baffled French police

Police on the scene after a gunman opened fire on a tram in Utrecht. (Reuters/Piroschka van de Wouw)

Dutch vote in ‘Rutte referendum’ after shooting

The ballot, in which 13 million people are eligible to vote, will be widely watched abroad as a bellwether for European Parliament elections in May

Dutch authorities said they were still investigating a likely terrorist motive for the shooting. (Piroschka Van De Wouw/Reuetrs)

Dutch police arrest suspect after three shot dead on tram

Mosques and schools were closed across the Netherlands’ fourth-largest city following the bloodshed

Prosecutors have said that Gbagbo, the first former head of state to be handed over to the ICC, clung to power “by all means” in the world’s largest cocoa producer. (AFP)

War crimes court to rule on release of Côte d’Ivoire ex-president

Laurent Gbagbo has spent seven years behind bars on charges of crimes against humanity

Key states spoke up to defend the ICC, set up in 2002 with jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute the world’s worst crimes including genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

ICC ‘undeterred’ after US sanctions threat

​The International Criminal Court says its work will continue ‘undeterred’ after Washington threatened to prosecute its judges

Lebogang Manyama. Photo: Shaun Roy/ Gallo Images

US urges top UN court to stay out of Chagos islands row

London split off the remote islands from Mauritius in 1965, three years before Port Louis gained independence

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia found Ratko Mladic guilty on 10 counts including genocide

‘Butcher of Bosnia’ found guilty of genocide

UN judges sentenced Ratko Mladic to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of war crimes in the brutal Balkans conflicts over two decades ago.

MH17 inquiry reportedly concludes plane shot down by Russian-made missile

An international inquiry has concluded that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Russian-made missile, a Dutch paper reported.

(Reuters)

US blasts ICC war crimes probe of Israel as ‘tragic irony’

The US has criticised the ICC’s preliminary probe into war crimes allegedly committed by Israel in Gaza as "counterproductive to the cause of peace".

William Ruto. (AFP)

Kenya: Arrest warrant issued for briber in Ruto ICC trial

The ICC has issued a warrant for a Kenyan who allegedly tried to bribe witnesses to drop their testimony against Deputy President William Ruto.

Kenya’s Ruto starts ICC trial with non-guilty plea

Kenya’s Vice-President William Ruto has pleaded not guilty to charges against him at the opening of his trial at the International Criminal Court.

US President Barack Obama, US first lady Michelle Obama walk off Air Force One with their daughters Malia and Sasha at Waterkloof Air Base, near Pretoria. (Jim Watson, AFP)

Soweto ready to welcome ‘fellow African’ Obama

Residents of Soweto are preparing to welcome US President Barack Obama as a "fellow African".

Charles Taylor begins appeal against 50-year sentence

Liberian warlord Charles Taylor has begun his appeal against a 50-year prison sentence handed down by Sierra Leone’s UN-backed special court.

Court to hear Charles Taylor’s appeal

Charles Taylor’s defence has filed 42 grounds of appeal, calling the trial chamber’s decision a "miscarriage of justice".

Congolese ex-militia boss Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui listens to the verdict on his trial at the International Criminal Court

ICC acquits Congolese ex-militia boss of war crimes

The ICC has acquitted Congolese ex-militia boss Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui of war crimes and ordered his immediate release.

Congolese national and former millitia chief Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui.

Congolese militia boss Ngudjolo awaits war crimes verdict

The International Criminal Court is to hand down its judgement against Congolese ex-militia boss Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui.

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor.

War crimes court jails Liberia’s Taylor for 50 years

A UN-backed war crimes court has sentenced Liberia’s former president Charles Taylor to 50 years in jail.

Charles Taylor guilty of arming and abetting RUF rebels

Charles Taylor guilty of arming and abetting RUF rebels

Ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor has been found guilty of terrorism, murder and rape committed by rebels during Liberia’s 11-year civil war.

Liberia’s Taylor awaits verdict in blood diamond trial

Liberia’s Taylor awaits verdict in blood diamond trial

Liberian former leader Charles Taylor awaits a verdict on charges of arming Sierra Leone’s rebels in return for "blood diamonds" in the 1990s.