NETHERLANDS MERKEL

2010-03-11T07:31:29Z

The shadows of German chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and a gesturing Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, are cast on a wall during a joint press conference in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

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NETHERLANDS GERMANY MERKEL

2010-03-11T07:31:25Z

German chancellor Angela Merkel listens to the translation of a question during a joint press conference with Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, unseen, in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

Malaria, AIDS, TB in retreat: Global Fund

2010-03-08T08:15:27Z

<div><p>GENEVA (Reuters) - Malaria could be eliminated as a public health problem within a decade in most countries where it is now endemic, an international organization that funds the treatment and prevention of killer diseases said on Monday.</p><p>The elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV -- the virus that causes AIDS -- is within reach by 2015, the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis a...

UN says mother-child HIV can be eliminated by 2015

2010-03-08T02:15:18Z

<div><p>The United Nations says mother-to-child HIV transmission can be eliminated by 2015 if health programs receive increased investments as planned.</p><p>Michel Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS, appealed to government and private donors to keep investing in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.</p><p>Michel D. Kazatchkine, the Global Fund's ...

Dutch anti-Islam leader is major winner in polls

2010-03-04T06:00:46Z

<div><p>AMSTERDAM/THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Dutch anti-Islamist leader Geert Wilders scored major gains in local authority polls Thursday, making him a serious challenger for power in a June national election, preliminary results showed.</p><p>In the first...

Pop concert votes help Dutch beat apathy

2010-03-01T10:18:02Z

<div><p>Polling booths at a pop concert and on public transport: Dutch officials are trying novel ways to entice apathetic voters to cast ballots in municipal polls on Wednesday.</p><p>"We want to reach out to as many people as possible by making the elections playful and fun," said Tina Erhami, a spokeswoman for The Hague municipality that will throw a big party in the...

Netherlands Afghanistan

2010-02-20T02:33:07Z

Dutch Youth and Family Minister Andre Rouvoet, leader of the third coalition party, listens during a press conference in The Hague, Netherlands, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende announced that the second largest party in his three-party a...

NETHERLANDS ROYAL DUTCH SHELL

2010-02-04T09:01:42Z

Royal Dutch Shell's Chief Executive Peter Voser, left and Simon Henry, Chief Financial Officer, right are seen during the presentation of the fourth quarter and annual results in The Hague, The Netherlands, Thursda...

Icesave talks end with no signs of progress on row

2010-02-22T13:31:25Z

<div><p>THE HAGUE/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Leaders from across Iceland's political spectrum met Dutch and British ministers on Friday over more than $5 billion in "Icesave" bad bank debts, but the talks ended with no ...

Serb radical's warcrimes trial resumes in private

2010-02-22T21:39:37Z

<div><p>THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The warcrimes trial of Serbian nationalist Vojislav Seselj resumed on Tuesday after a year's delay, with witnesses testifying behind closed doors to protect their identity, an issue that has dogged the trial.</p><p>Seselj faces life in ...

Iraq invasion was illegitimate: Dutch probe

2010-02-22T21:43:25Z

<div><p>The 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq lacked legitimacy under international law, an independent commission probing Dutch political support for the action said on Tuesday.</p><p>"There was insufficient legitimacy" for the invasion for which the Netherlands gave political but no military ba...

Dutch airport to use full-body scan for U.S. flights

2010-02-23T08:05:16Z

<div><p>THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport will begin using full-body scanners within three weeks to scan people traveling to the United States after consultations with U.S...

Somali piracy tribunals unlikely, despite calls

2010-02-23T17:31:39Z

<div><p>THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Efforts to establish an international court to prosecute Somali pirates face complex laws governing the seas and national sovereignty as well as the lack of an effective police force, experts said on Thursday.</p><p>In the past three years, commercial ...

South Korea North Korea Human Rights

2009-12-03T00:45:23Z

North Korean defector Jung Gyoung-il, center, speaks during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. A group of activists and North Korean defectors urged an international tribunal to investigate alleged human rights abuses in the North and put its authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il on trial. The group is to fly to International Criminal Court said Thursday he had asked judges to allow a formal probe of Kenya's 2007-08 post-election violence with a view to putting those responsible on trial.</p><p>"I have asked the judges of the International Criminal Court authorisation to investigate the viol...

Prosecutors start grilling Taylor at U.N. trial

2010-02-24T07:21:36Z

<div><p>THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors challenged former Liberian President Charles Taylor over the circumstances of his departure from power as they opened their cross-examination on Tuesday at the first war crimes trial of an African leader.</p><p>Taylor, 61, den...

Moroccan hid 'terror-linked' documents in burka

2010-02-24T11:05:06Z

<div><p>Moroccan mother of six was sentenced to two years in jail in Manchester on Monday after admitting concealing documents inside her burka which could have helped commit an act of terrorism.</p><p>Houria Chahed Chentouf, 41, pleaded guilty to two offences of possessing such documents -- but she walked free from Radovan Karadzic said he would attend a procedural court hearing Tuesday on how to proceed with the trial he has been boycotting since it started last week.</p><p>"I will ... be pleased to attend the status conference on Tuesday November 3, 2009," the Bosnian Serb wartime leader said in a letter addressed to presiding judge United States and abroad:</p><p>Oct. 24</p><p>The

Bosnian Serb war criminal Plavsic back in Serbia

2010-02-24T13:51:06Z

<div><p>BELGRADE (Reuters) - Radovan Karadzic's successor as Bosnian Serb president left Swedish prison on Tuesday and arrived in Belgrade after winning early release from her sentence for committing war crimes.</p><p>The

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