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Dutch peace activist Mient Jan Faber, who gained prominence in the 1980s leading the nuclear disarmament movement in Europe, died Sunday at the age of 81, the organisation PAX reported. “Mient Jan Faber’s importance spread beyond his role at the…
Pope Francis on Sunday canonised a Frenchman murdered in the desert, a Dutch priest killed in a Nazi concentration camp and an Indian lay convert among 10 new saints officially proclaimed on Sunday. Thousands of people from around the world…
The Netherlands has arrested a former Rwandan paramilitary police officer over his alleged participation in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the prosecutor’s office said on Friday. Dutch authorities “arrested a 65-year-old Rwandan man” who had lived in the country since 1998…
A Frenchman murdered in the desert, a Dutch priest killed in a Nazi concentration camp and an Indian lay convert are among 10 new saints being created by Pope Francis on Sunday. Tens of thousands of people from around the…
The last major fugitive wanted for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Protais Mpiranya, died in Zimbabwe in 2006, UN prosecutors probing the case said on Thursday. Charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, Mpiranya commanded Rwanda’s…
The last major fugitive wanted for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Protais Mpiranya, died in Zimbabwe back in 2006, UN prosecutors probing the case said on Thursday. Charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, Mpiranya at…
Authorities in Italy, Spain and the Netherlands have busted an international drug trafficking network accused of using the art trade to launder the profits, Italian and EU authorities said Thursday. Dozens of arrests were made on Wednesday and a contemporary…
Donor countries on Wednesday pledged more than $30 million to help prevent an ageing oil tanker from unleashing a potentially catastrophic oil spill off the coast of Yemen, organisers said. The decaying 45-year-old oil tanker, long used as a floating…
A Dutch court Wednesday sentenced 11 suspects to between one and nine years for maintaining an “underworld prison” with a torture chamber, hidden in shipping containers in a case that shocked the Netherlands. The case revolved around seven containers found…