Australia’s prime minister has set a November deadline for Japan to stop its research whaling programme that kills hundreds of the creatures every year in Antarctic waters, or face legal action.

Iceland is pressing Britain and The Netherlands to renegotiate $5.7bn (€3.96bn) owed for lost bank deposits.

Thousands of riot police were deployed in Belgrade today preparing for a huge demonstration in support of jailed Radovan Karadzic.

This weekend sees the start of the European hurling season in Luxembourg, when teams from Brussels, The Hague, Zurich and the hosts commence battle for the 2009 European Hurling Championship.

A NEW TV drama is set to make uncomfortable viewing for Tony Blair — it sees him extradited to The Hague over the Iraq war.

The death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, and the outbursts of nationalism during his funeral in Serbia, make it unlikely that General Ratko Mladic will soon be handed over to the UN war crimes tribunal, Europe’s top security agency said in a report today.

The United Nations Court of Arbitration in the Hague has dismissed Ireland's efforts to gain access to confidential information about the operation of the Sellafield nuclear plant in Britain.

IT is 2004, and the first President George Bush Snr is in a Belgian court for alleged war crimes committed during the 1991 Gulf War. Back in Washington, his son worries he may be next.

POLICE hunting the assassins of the Serbian prime minister raided the home of a murdered warlord yesterday and arrested his widow, the Balkan republic’s most popular folk singer.

Serbia’s likely new prime minister pledged today to keep the country on the course of pro-democracy reforms and close ties with the West as charted by his slain predecessor Zoran Djindjic.