ICJ Declines Kiev's Request to Introduce Provisional Measures Against Russia

The International Court of Justice declined Kiev's request to introduce provisional measures against Moscow over the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.

Ukraine: la CIJ doit trancher sur les mesures d'urgence demandées contre Moscou

Les juges de la Cour internationale de Justice (CIJ) doivent décider mercredi d'octroyer ou non les mesures d'urgence réclamées par Kiev contre Moscou, accusé de "soutenir le terrorisme" dans l'est ukrainien.

UN International Court starts hearing Ukraine’s lawsuit against Russia

The UN International Court has opened its session on Monday to hear Ukraine’s lawsuit against Russia on the alleged violations of the Convention for the Suppression of Terrorism Financing and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

In UN lawsuit, Ukraine demands Russia end support for separatists

Ukraine filed a lawsuit at the United Nations' highest court demanding that Russia immediately halt its support for pro-Moscow separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine.

European Parliament calls on Japan to end whale hunting

Members of European Parliament (MEPs) gathered for a plenary session in Strasbourg, pressing on Wednesday for the European Council and the European Commission to condemn the decision by Japan to resume whale hunting and to catch 333 small rorqual whales during the 2015-2016 season.

Japan whaling fleet heads to Antarctic to hunt amid criticism from int'l community

Japanese whaling vessels on Tuesday departed from a port in Yamaguchi Prefecture in western Japan to join a fleet that will begin hunting whales for "scientific research" in a controversial move that marks the first hunt since an international court ruled against the practice a year ago.

Varoufakis threatens lawsuit against Commission

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis told the press on Tuesday that his government would sue the European Commission for the imposition of capital controls on banks, and against an eventual expulsion from the euro system.

Neither Serbia nor Croatia committed genocide in 1990s, rules UN

The UN's highest court has ruled that Serbia did not commit genocide against Croats during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.

"Croatia has failed to substantiate its claim that genocide was committed" by Serbia, Judge Peter Tomka said.

Catalonia to Hold Unofficial Independence Referendum, Despite Constitutional Court’s Ban

Catalonia will conduct an unofficial independence referendum despite the fact that the Constitutional Court of Spain admitted the lawsuit by the country's government to rule it illegal on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Catalan government said.

"Everything is ready for the vote on November 9," Francesc Homs said at a press conference. "We will hold it to grant our citizens the freedom of expression," he added.

The Spanish Constitutional Court barred Catalonia from holding a “symbolic” poll to determine its aspirations for independence Tuesday.

The wealthy Catalonia region's poll was originally scheduled for Sunday November 9, but the Spanish government vowed to stop the non-binding consultation process.

On September 19, a day after Scotland voted against independence from the U.K., the Catalan parliament in Barcelona passed a law allowing a referendum on its independence issue with the approval of more than two-thirds of its members. Catalan President Artur Mas also signed a decree regarding it on September 27, 2014.

China says passing Syrian issue to ICC now harms efforts for political solution ...

It will jeopardize the international efforts to push ahead with resolving the long-drawn Syrian crisis via political means if the issue of Syria is referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) forcibly under current situation, said a Chinese envoy Thursday.

Wang Min, the deputy Chinese permanent representative to the United Nations, made the remarks after UN Security Council's meeting where Russia and China, two permanent members of the Council, vetoed a draft resolution intended to refer the Syrian civil war to the ICC Thursday morning.

Serbs' disappearance from Krajina - goal of Operation Storm

THE HAGUE - Serbia's legal team underlined before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday that Operation Storm was the largest, single, ethnic cleansing campaign in living memory, which the Croatian authorities conducted with the genocidal intent to destroy the Krajina Serbs.

Counsel for Serbia Wayne Jordash noted that the genocide was planned in the Brioni meeting between the then Croatian president Franjo Tudjman and military commanders on July 31, 1995.
During the meeting, Tudjman set as the objective of Operation Storm, which followed on August 4-5, 1995, that the Serbs disappear from the Krajina region.
"As the evidence shows, President Tudjman, the leader of Croatia and its ruling party, the HDZ, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Croatian forces at the time, saw genocide as a solution to the problem presented by the Krajina Serbs," Jordash said.

N Korea hits out at UN abuses report. -Denies crimes against humanity are taking place in the country

State responds to report accusing it torture, rape and murder of political prisoners held inside labour camps.
 
North Korea has hit out at the United Nations which is due to publish a report on the country's human rights abuses including evidence gathered by Amnesty International, the UK-based rights organisation.
In a statement sent to Reuters, the government called the UN report "fabricated and invented" and an "instrument of political plot".
North Korea "categorically and totally rejects" the report due to be published later on Monday.

PM Gruevski seeks Italian support for date for launching EU accession talks

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Skopje, 22 October 2012 (MIA) - Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski at a meeting Monday in Rome with his Italian counterpart Mario Monti sought support for a date for start of EU membership negotiations to be set, as recommended by the European Commission and ahead of a meeting of the European Council in December.

Rome's pledge for FYROM's integration into Euro-Atlantic organisations was reaffirmed at the meeting.