The four suspects on trial are Russian nationals Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky and Oleg Pulatov, and Ukrainian citizen Leonid Kharchenko, accused of launching the BUK missile that hit the plane over war-torn eastern Ukraine.
The theft of the Picasso, valued at around $7-million at the time, baffled French police
The ballot, in which 13 million people are eligible to vote, will be widely watched abroad as a bellwether for European Parliament elections in May
Mosques and schools were closed across the Netherlands’ fourth-largest city following the bloodshed
Laurent Gbagbo has spent seven years behind bars on charges of crimes against humanity
The International Criminal Court says its work will continue ‘undeterred’ after Washington threatened to prosecute its judges
London split off the remote islands from Mauritius in 1965, three years before Port Louis gained independence
UN judges sentenced Ratko Mladic to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of war crimes in the brutal Balkans conflicts over two decades ago.
An international inquiry has concluded that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Russian-made missile, a Dutch paper reported.
The US has criticised the ICC’s preliminary probe into war crimes allegedly committed by Israel in Gaza as "counterproductive to the cause of peace".