Tag: #Hague
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UN Court Rules for France in Mansion Spat with Equatorial Guinea
The Hague, Dec 11 (AFP/APP): The UN’s top court ruled in favour of France Friday in a battle with Equatorial Guinea over a Paris mansion seized in a corruption probe into the son of the African nation’s president. “The court finds that the building at 42 Avenue Foch has never acquired the status of the…
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Dutch arrest six after Dubai holds alleged drugs lord
The Hague, Dec 17 (AFP/APP): Dutch police arrested six people in a series of raids across the country after an alleged cocaine kingpin dubbed the Netherlands’ most wanted man was held in Dubai, police said Tuesday. Moroccan-born Ridouan Taghi, 41, who was wanted on international arrest warrants for ordering a series of murders and for…
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Suu Kyi set to make history in Hague genocide case
The Hague, Dec 8 (AFP/APP): Former democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is set to make legal history when she defends Myanmar in The Hague this week against charges of genocide targeting the Buddhist state’s minority Rohingya Muslims. The tiny west African state of Gambia, acting on behalf of the 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation,…
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Migrants found alive in refrigerated truck on Dutch-UK ferry
The Hague, Nov 20 (AFP/APP): A ferry crew found 25 migrants in a refrigerated container on a boat sailing from the Netherlands to Britain on Tuesday, emergency services said. The cargo vessel bound for Felixstowe returned to the Dutch port of Vlaardingen, near Rotterdam, as soon as the stowaways were found, they said in a…
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Afghan gets sentence for Amsterdam terror stabbing
The Hague, Oct 14 (AFP/APP):Dutch judges on Monday sentenced an Afghan man to 26 years and eight months in jail for stabbing two American tourists at Amsterdam’s Central station in a terror attack. The 20-year-old, identified only as Jawed S., was also ordered at Amsterdam district court to pay almost three million euros ($3.3 million)…
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Dutch launch laundering probe into ABN Amro
The Hague, Sept 26 (AFP/APP):Dutch prosecutors are targeting the country’s third-largest bank ABN Amro in a money-laundering probe, the bank and prosecutors said Thursday, sending its share price into a nosedive on the Amsterdam stock exchange. The stock fell by around 9.5 percent on the AEX index shortly after opening following ABN Amro’s terse announcement…