Cambodia’s prime minister issued an ultimatum to Thailand to withdraw troops from a disputed border area today or face a “life-and-death battle zone”.

Georgia will appeal to judges at the International Court of Justice today to impose emergency measures to halt what it calls a campaign of ethnic cleansing by Russia in the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Serbia hailed its acquittal before the World Court on genocide charges filed by Bosnia, saying it would help regional reconciliation.

Serbia today hailed its acquittal before the World Court on genocide charges filed by Bosnia, saying it would help regional reconciliation.

The Serbian president today hailed the World Court’s acquittal of Serbia on genocide charges, but warned of “dramatic consequences” if the court’s demand for the arrest of indicted war criminals is not carried out.

The United Nations’ highest court today exonerated Serbia of direct responsibility for, or complicity in, genocide during the 1992/95 Bosnia war, but did rule that Serbia failed to prevent the mass slaughter of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica.

The United Nations’ highest court will today rule whether Serbia is guilty of genocide for the killing, torture, rape and expulsion of Bosnian Muslims – the first time an entire nation is being held to judicial account for the ultimate crime.

The UN’s highest court will deliver its judgment on Monday on Bosnia’s demand to make Serbia accountable for the slaughter, terrorising, rape and displacement of Bosnian Muslims in the early 1990s.

The UN’s highest court will deliver its judgment on Monday on Bosnia’s demand to make Serbia accountable for the slaughter, terrorising, rape and displacement of Bosnian Muslims in the early 1990s.

The International Court of Justice opened hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, today on a suit by Bosnia accusing Serbia of genocide.

ISRAELI troops killed five Palestinians yesterday as plans were announced to pave new roads in the West Bank exclusively for Palestinians while Jewish settler vehicles keep to the existing network.

THE International Court of Justice yesterday held Uganda responsible for the killing, torture and cruel treatment of civilians in Congo in the late 1990s and ordered reparations.

YOUR columnist Rónán Mullen’s criticism of Amnesty International (Irish Examiner, June 22) revealed an absurd political misconception that should come as no surprise by now to anyone with a clear insight as to what is happening in Iraq.

Members of Saddam Hussein’s ousted regime are considering suing the Bush administration in the World Court for alleged war crimes in Iraq, the chief of the fallen dictator’s legal team said today.

ISRAEL will reroute its West Bank barrier closer to the boundary of the occupied territory under a court order that Palestinians must not be cut off from their lands, the project's administrator said yesterday.

ISRAEL is redrawing the route of its West Bank barrier closer to its borders to try to ensure Palestinians are not cut off from their lands in line with an Israeli High Court order, security sources said yesterday.

A FEMALE soldier was killed and 20 people wounded when a bomb exploded in Tel Aviv yesterday, in the first such attack by militants inside Israel for nearly four months.

THE World Court said yesterday that Israel's barrier in the West Bank is illegal and should be torn down.

EVERY time Nisreen Hurub needs kidney dialysis, she has to take a long and painful detour to hospital around Israel's West Bank barrier.

ISRAEL faced a second day of condemnation at the World Court yesterday over its West Bank barrier but Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dismissed the hearings as an “international circus” and vowed to keep building fences.

PALESTINIANS urged the World Court yesterday to declare Israel’s ‘Berlin Wall’ illegal, arguing it would wreck the chances of a peaceful settlement in the Middle East.

ISRAEL yesterday said it would boycott a World Court hearing over the legality of a vast barrier it is building in the West Bank.

MEXICO yesterday called for urgent stays of execution for 51 Mexicans on US death row as it opened a World Court case arguing the United States had violated their “life or death” rights to consular help.

The world’s first permanent war crimes court came into force today and Dutch administrators overseeing its initial months of operation are ready to register claims of genocide and wartime atrocities.

A Belgian court is deciding whether to resume a war crimes investigation against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, even though the World Court has ruled that he has immunity as a head of state.