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Firefighters stand by a destroyed building at the site of an explosion which destroyed several apartments and injured multiple people, at The Hague, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

Dutch police arrest 3 with possible links to huge apartment explosion that killed 6 in The Hague

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Firefighters stand by a building destruction at the site of an explosion which destroyed several apartments and injured multiple people, at The Hague, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

Rescuers search for victims after an explosion at a Dutch apartment block that killed at least 5

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

Firefighters hose down a site of an explosion which destroyed several apartments and injured multiple people, at The Hague, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

Multiple injured and one dead after explosions cause apartment building collapse in the Netherlands

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - The Dutch parliament buildings in The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Mike Corder, File)

Dutch junior finance minister quits after questions over his personal investments

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - View of the ICC, the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

International court prosecutor who charged Netanyahu faces sexual misconduct accusation

By Joshua Goodman and Molly Quell - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, walks with Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, left, during a welcoming ceremony at Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

International Criminal Court reports Mongolia to its oversight body for failing to arrest Putin

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FILE - Seats of the judges at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, May 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Top U.N. court sets a December date for the start of hearings in a landmark climate change case

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

A view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

International Criminal Court judges mulling arrest warrants consider legal arguments on jurisdiction

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - An exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday, March 5, 2024, for two high-ranking Russian military officers on charges linked to attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine that judges said happened “pursuant to a state policy.” It's only the second time the global court has publicly announced arrest warrants linked to Russia's war in Ukraine. In March 2023, the court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

International court seeks the arrest of 2 Russian officers over attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Palestinians carry a a body of a person killed in the Israeli bombardment at a building of an UNRWA vocational training center which displaced people use as a shelter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)

Live updates | Gaza death toll surpasses 26,000 as Israel awaits a UN court ruling on its offensive

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. Israel is sending top legal minds, including a Holocaust survivor, to The Hague this week to counter allegations that it is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Israel defends itself at the U.N.’s top court against allegations of genocide against Palestinians

By Mike Corder and Raf Casert - Associated Press

South Africa's Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola, center, and Palestinian assistant Minister of Multilateral Affairs Ammar Hijazi, right, address the media outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. The United Nations' top court opens hearings Thursday into South Africa's allegation that Israel's war with Hamas amounts to genocide against Palestinians, a claim that Israel strongly denies. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Live updates | Israel rejects genocide case as Mideast tensions rise after US-led strikes in Yemen

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. Israel is sending top legal minds, including a Holocaust survivor, to The Hague this week to counter allegations that it is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

South Africa tells the U.N. top court Israel is committing genocide in Gaza as landmark case begins

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Police officers speak with climate activists block the main highway around Amsterdam near the former headquarters of a ING bank to protest its financing of fossil fuels, Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023. Protestors walked onto the road at midday, snarling traffic around the Dutch capital in the latest road blockade organized by the Dutch branch of Extinction Rebellion. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion have blocked part of the highway around Amsterdam

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Members of global chemical weapons watchdog vote to keep Syria from getting poison gas materials

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Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right party PVV, or Party for Freedom, talks to the media after a meeting with speaker of the House Vera Bergkamp, two days after Wilders won the most votes in a general election, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday Nov. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Wilders ally overseeing first stage of Dutch coalition-building quits over fraud allegation

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Dilan Yesilgoz-Zegerius, leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, or VVD, left, and Pieter Omtzigt, leader of the New Social Contract party, right, talk prior to the start of a meeting with speaker of the House Vera Bergkamp, two days after far-right PVV party leader Geert Wilders won the most votes in a general election, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday Nov. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

The Netherlands’ longtime ruling party says it won’t join a new government following far-right’s win

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Demonstrators hold pictures of people they say disappeared in Syria outside the World Court, where preliminary hearings opened in a case in which the Netherlands and Canada are suing Syria at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, the United Nations' highest judicial organ, in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, accusing Damascus of massive human rights violations against its own people. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Canada and the Netherlands take Syria to top U.N. court, accuse Damascus of widespread torture

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

View of the Peace Palace which houses World Court where Ukraine's legal battle against Russia over allegations of genocide used by Moscow to justify its 2022 invasion, resumed in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. Russia seeks to have a groundbreaking case tossed out at the International Court of Justice, also known as the Word Court, in a case which will see Ukraine supported by a record 32 other nations in a major show of support for the embattled nation. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Russia urges U.N.’s top court to toss out Ukrainian case that seeks to halt Moscow’s invasion

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Alexander Kozlov at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

U.S. lawmakers visiting The Hague say Russian President Putin is committing genocide in Ukraine

By Mike Corder - Associated Press