Four rioters have been given short jail terms for violence against football fans visiting Amsterdam for a Europa League match between Ajax and Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Sefa Ö, 32, was handed the longest sentence of six months in jail by (...)
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has emphasized the importance of discussing strategies to strengthen Ukraine in case of any future peace talks with Russia.
During a meeting on Wednesday with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and other (...)
A delegation from the European Parliament has visited Georgia and marched with pro-EU protesters with demonstrations against the government's decision to suspend accession talks now in a second week.
The six MEPs also met with Georgia's pro-Western (...)
Romania and Bulgaria's shared journey to join the passport-free Schengen Area came to an end on Thursday morning as interior ministers from the European Union gave their final blessing to their hard-fought candidacy.
The momentous decision was made (...)
The rate of medical assistance in dying – also known as euthanasia – has grown in Canada for the fifth straight year, albeit at a slower pace.
The country released its fifth annual report since legalizing assisted dying in 2016, which for the first (...)
The European Union and Mercosur, the South American trade bloc, announced on Friday the completion of a landmark free trade agreement, ending 25 years of negotiations.
If ratified, the deal will create one of the world's largest free trade zones, (...)
A Georgian opposition leader has been dragged from his party office by police and others have been physically attacked after the prime minister vowed that organizers of a week of pro-EU protests, which he called "violent actions", would face (...)
In a courtroom in Munich, Nora sat across from the person who had bought her as a slave, abused her and murdered her five-year-old daughter.
Nora and Reda were being held captive in Iraq by the extremist group Islamic State (IS) in 2015, the year (...)
The reach and credibility of international law is at its lowest in years as governments dismiss arrest warrants in some of the most high-profile cases to come before the International Criminal Court.
In the past 18 months, the Hague-based court has (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has retained its seat on the Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a position it has held since 1997.
This reflects the Kingdom's ongoing efforts to promote international peace (...)
North Korea is expanding a weapons plant that manufactures missiles used by Russia against Ukraine, according to new research from a US-based think tank.
The facility produces both KN-23 missiles (Hwasong-11A) and KN-24 missiles (Hwasong-11B), (...)
The former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was once described as the world's most powerful woman. Here she talks to the BBC's Katya Adler about Ukraine, Vladimir Putin's nuclear threat -- and how she handled Donald Trump.
Angela Merkel led Germany (...)
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday that he would ignore an arrest warrant issued by the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Hungarian leader added that not only would he (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Minister of Justice Walid Al-Samaani has visited the headquarters of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) in The Hague, Netherlands.
During the visit, Al-Samaani met with Secretary General of the Conference (...)
THE HAGUE — Saudi Minister of Justice Walid Al-Samaani visited the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) in The Hague, Netherlands, to strengthen judicial and legal collaboration between the Kingdom and the EU.
Al-Samaani (...)
With tears in his eyes, Rafael Nadal said goodbye to professional tennis on Tuesday.
In a message to his adoring fans, one of the all-time greatest athletes said he just wanted to be celebrated for something so simple.
"I just want to be remembered (...)
A 17-year-old who is not allowed to speak in public in her own country has won a prestigious international award for advocating for the rights of Afghan girls. Nila Ibrahimi won the International Children's Peace Prize on Tuesday, an award that has (...)
A preliminary decision was made on Monday for a governing coalition in Austria — one that will exclude the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ).
Although the FPÖ won the national election in September with around 29% of the vote, Federal President (...)
A man suspected of being a significant supplier of small boats equipment to people smugglers has been arrested in Amsterdam following a joint operation by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) and Dutch and Belgian police.
The man is alleged to have (...)
A brief scuffle broke out in the stands as Israeli soccer fans returned to Europe, but a heavy security presence in Paris ensured there was no repeat of the large-scale violence seen in Amsterdam last week.
Thousands of extra security personnel were (...)
Josep Borrell, the European Union's foreign policy chief, has proposed to formally suspend political dialogue with Israel over the country's alleged violations of human rights and international law in the Gaza Strip.
Borrell's proposal was first (...)
Thousands of police are being deployed in Paris to ensure security at Thursday's France-Israel football international, a week after violence in Amsterdam in which Maccabi Tel Aviv fans came under attack.
Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez said that (...)
Dutch police have made five more arrests over the violence that followed a match involving an Israeli football team in Amsterdam on Thursday night.
The five men, all from the Netherlands and aged between 18 and 37, are suspected of "public violence (...)
Israel has for the first time confirmed that it was behind the operation in September to detonate hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The Israeli media on Sunday reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet: "The (...)
RIYADH — The escalating violence in the Palestinian and Lebanese territories, including the brutal Israeli aggression on Gaza, has compelled Arab and Islamic leaders to take urgent action, and that was translated through their resolve to gather (...)
