'S-Gravenhage (the Hague), Netherlands News

There have been calls for an urgent debate in the Dutch parliament about the integration of Muslim immigrants amid claims that one area of The Hague, known locally as 'the Sharia triangle', is being run by a form of unofficial Sharia police.

Those of us who love fashion and have closets overflowing with more pairs of shoes than we probably need are likely familiar with Louboutin pumps.

The museum to be named for Richard Kruizenga and the late Margaret Feldmann Kruizenga, both 1952 graduates of Hope College, is expected to open in 2015.

The Donald Sutherland-starrer from "Criminal Minds" showrunner Ed Bernero and Tandem Communications was earlier picked up by NBC for the U.S. market.

Serbian nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj will appear before the Hague tribunal in June to testify on behalf of wartime Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic.

With the Diet endorsing the Hague Convention to help settle parental cross-border child abductions after years of lobbying by foreign governments and citizens, Japan is being urged to provide adequate support to parents and children separated through failed marriages.

When in May 1993 the UN Security Council passed a resolution to establish a tribunal to prosecute those responsible for serious breaches of international humanitarian law in the former Yugoslavia, Balkans watchers commonly saw it as a fig leaf for the unwillingness or inability of the West's three permanent members to stop the carnage in Bosnia.

The Hague-based life insurance company Aegon has named Brenda Clancy global CTO.

Israel and the UK are friends. William Hague has described the UK's relationship with Israel as going "far beyond the realm of diplomatic relationsa It is based on bonds between families and communities as well as shared values and common interests.

A video circulating online over the past few days features police officers in a Finland airport handcuffing a young Israeli man only for admitting he had served in the Israeli army.

1899 - George Whitehouse, a British engineer, decides to build a workshop for the Uganda Railway in a swamp where Kenya's capital, Nairobi, later grows.

When the Treaty of Maastricht was signed in 1992, and even endorsed by a number of European countries in referendums, there was a general belief that the world was witnessing a new chapter in international relations.

An April 2011 Combination picture shows Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta, who was finance minister, and William Ruto, former Higher Education Minister at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Kenya has asked other African countries to urge the International Criminal Court to drop crimes-against-humanity charges against its new president and his deputy, according to an African Union document seen on Thursday.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said on Thursday his country would never become a member of the International Criminal Court , saying it appeared to be preoccupied with prosecuting African leaders.

Dutch authorities have arrested the director of a meat processing business at the center of an investigation into undeclared mixing of horse meat with beef.

Justice Minister joins Netanyahu meeting with Kerry; secretary of state meets Abbas in Ramallah in latest trip aimed at kick-starting negotiations; PM also holds talks with Hague, Sarkozy.

There is a saying in the Netherlands: money is made in Rotterdam, taxed in The Hague and spent in Amsterdam.

To my last column on the current conflict between the Philippines and Taiwan, a country with whom, until recently, we have had only friendly relations, a reader from Canada has written a most thoughtful rejoinder.

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