Fourteen countries, including the United States, vowed Friday to work to promote online freedom, with an emphasis on helping bloggers who operate under oppressive governments. The countries, which included Britain, France and Canada, endorsed a statement at a conference in The Hague saying that their goals included preventing ''the misappropriation...
Greece was wrong to veto Macedonia's bid to join NATO in 2008 because of the two countries' long-running dispute over the use of the name Macedonia, the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled Monday. Greece has a province of Macedonia and, arguing that the name implies territorial ambitions, has blocked Macedonia's accession to NATO and...
A committee on Tuesday announced its list of four final candidates to become the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court: Fatou Bensouda of Gambia, Andrew Cayley of Britain, Mohamed Chande Othman of Tanzania and Robert Petit of Canada. The prosecutor is expected to be chosen in December to replace Luis Moreno-Ocampo of Argentina. Mrs....
Haag (nederlandsk: Den Haag, officielt 's-Gravenhage) er residens- og regeringsby i Nederlandene, hvor Amsterdam er hovedstad. Byen har cirka 441.000 indbyggere, med forstæderne 705.000, og er dermed landets tredjestørste by.
Byen er et administrativt og kulturelt centrum, den er hjemsted for Den Internationale Domstol, EuroPol og andre folkeretslige organer samt en lang række kendte bygninger som Mauritshuis (Rembrandtsamling), Fredspaladset (bygget 1907-1913) samt miniaturebyen Madurodam.