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FILE - Judges walk to their seats before reading the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on what Israel must do to ensure humanitarian aid reaches Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, file)

World Court celebrates 80-year anniversary as the international legal framework is under strain

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2017, file photo, smoke rises from a burned house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, where the vast majority of the country's 1.1 million Rohingya lived, Myanmar. (AP Photo, File)

Hearings on whether Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya opens at top U.N. court

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, right, welcomes Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Ukraine and 34 other countries approve compensation body for damages from Russia’s invasion

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

A general view of the exterior of the International Criminal Court is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana, File)

What to know about the International Criminal Court as annual meeting lays out challenges

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

A general view of the exterior of the International Criminal Court is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana, File)

Libyan man accused of murder, rape, and torture appears at the ICC

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

A general view of the exterior of the International Criminal Court is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana, File)

Libyan man accused of murder, rape, and torture appears at the ICC

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - Ali Muhammad Ali Abd–Al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, attends a hearing at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (Piroschka van de Wouw/Pool Photo via AP, File)

ICC prosecutors seek life sentence for Janjaweed leader convicted of Darfur crimes

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

A woman holds a sheet of candidates as she prepares to vote at a polling station during general elections in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Dutch voters navigate massive ballot with 27 parties and 1,166 candidates

By Mike Corder and Molly Quell - Associated Press

FILE -A Palestinian flag flies outside the International Court of Justice, rear, which opened hearings into a United Nations request for an advisory opinion on Israel's obligations to allow humanitarian assistance in Gaza and the West Bank, in The Hague, Netherlands, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Top U.N. court says Israel must allow U.N. relief agency to supply aid to Gaza

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

Ali Muhammad Ali Abd al-Rahman, a Sudanese national, during a hearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, The Netherlands, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. (Koen van Weel/Pool Photo via AP, File)

ICC convicts Darfur militia leader over past atrocities in Sudan

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

A police vehicle burns as a right-wing demonstration erupted into violence and chaos as rioters clashed with police on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025 in The Hague, Netherlands. (REGIO8 via AP)

Violence erupts at right-wing demonstration in the Netherlands ahead of election

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An activist holds a fan that reads "make polluters pay" as they demonstrate outside the International Court of Justice ahead of an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address climate change and which consequences they may face if they don't, on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

U.N.’s top court says failing to protect planet from climate change could violate international law

By Molly Quell and Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - Vice President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Equatorial Guinea urges U.N. to block the sale of a Paris mansion seized by France

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

FILE - Former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) member Pjeter Shala attends his trial as judges at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers will hand down a judgment in The Hague, Netherlands, July 16 2024. (Piroschka van de Wouw/Pool photo via AP, File)

Kosovo fighter’s sentence cut to 13 years despite court upholding convictions for murder and torture

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Belgium's Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, seated center, signs the North Atlantic Pact in Washington, DC, April 4, 1949, flanked by Belgium's Ambassador to the U.S., Baron Silvercruys, left, and John W. Foley of the U.S. State Department. Seated behind, from left, are Britain's Ernest Bevin, Norway's Halvard Lange, Luxembourg's Joseph Bech, Iceland's Bjarni Benediktsson, Denmark's Gustav Rasmussen, U.S. President Harry S. Truman, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson; Canada's Lester Pearson, France's Robert Schuman, Italy's Count Carlo Spforza, Holland's Dirk Stikker and Portugal's Jose Caeiro Da Matta. (AP Photo, File)

NATO leaders gather Tuesday for what could be a historic summit, or one marred by divisions

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

A woman holds a placard during a demonstration ahead of the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Hundreds protest in The Hague against NATO, days before the Dutch city hosts alliance summit

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - Amsterdam's Mayor Femke Halsema, centre, acting Amsterdam police chief Peter Holla, left, and head of the Amsterdam public prosecutor's office René de Beukelaer hold a news conference after Israeli fans and protesters clashed overnight after a soccer match, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nov, 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Mike Corder, File)

Inquiries say social media fueled violence after a Maccabi-Ajax soccer match

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

Far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders appears after pulling his party out of the four-party Dutch coalition in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

The Dutch government has collapsed. What happens next?

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Karim Khan, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, looks up prior to a press conference in The Hague, Netherlands, July 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Trump’s sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal’s work

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

Presiding judge Yuji Iwasawa, third right, opens the International Court of Justice hearings into a United Nations request for an advisory opinion on Israel's obligations to allow humanitarian assistance in Gaza and the West Bank, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Israel killing Gaza civilians, Palestinian envoy tells U.N. court. Israel says it’s being persecuted

By Molly Quell and Mike Corder - Associated Press