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FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2017, file photo, a Myanmar security officer walks past burned Rohingya houses in Ka Nyin Tan village of suburb Maungdaw, northern Rakhine state of western Myanmar. Myanmar’s government announced Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 that its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, will head a legal team it will send to the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands to contest a case of genocide filed against it by Gambia on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. (AP Photo, File)

Suu Kyi to lead Myanmar team contesting genocide court case

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UN demands Britain end rule of Chagos Islands in 6 months

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Pakistanis protest acquittal of 4 in India train attack

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The Peace Palace, home of the International Court of Justice, in the Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. The United Nations' highest court will deliver a non-binding opinion on the legality of British sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, in the Indian Ocean some 2000 Km (1250 miles) south of Sri Lanka, the largest of which, Diego Garcia, has housed a strategically important U.S. military base since the 1970s. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

UN court: UK must end administration of Chagos Islands

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

The Peace Palace, home of the International Court of Justice, in the Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. The United Nations' highest court will deliver a non-binding opinion on the legality of British sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, in the Indian Ocean some 2000 Km (1250 miles) south of Sri Lanka, the largest of which, Diego Garcia, has housed a strategically important U.S. military base since the 1970s. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

The Latest: Mauritius ruling a ‘tool’ for Cyprus on UK bases

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Journalists, foreground, takes images at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, where India is taking Pakistan to the United Nations' highest court in an attempt to save the life of an Indian naval officer sentenced to death last month by a Pakistani military court after being convicted of espionage. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Pakistan says India using UN court for ‘political theater’

By BY MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Exterior view of the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Feb. 18, 2019. India is taking Pakistan to the United Nations' highest court in an attempt to save the life of an Indian naval officer sentenced to death last month by a Pakistani military court after being convicted of espionage. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

India takes Pakistan to UN’s highest court in spying case

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

In this Wednesday Oct. 3, 2018, image Mohammed Zahedin Labbaf, third left, agent for the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the U.S. delegation, right, listen to the ruling of the judges on an Iranian request to order Washington to suspend sanctions against Tehran, at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands. The U.S. is urging the United Nations' highest court Monday Oct. 8, 2018, to toss out a case filed by Iran that seeks to recover around $2 billion worth of frozen assets the U.S. Supreme Court awarded to victims of a 1983 bombing in Lebanon and other attacks linked to Iran.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

US urges UN court to toss out Iranian case on frozen assets

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Judges enter the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, where they ruled on an Iranian request to order Washington to suspend U.S. sanctions against Tehran. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

U.N. court orders U.S. to lift some Iran sanctions

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

United States delegation Vice President Mike Pence, left center, National security adviser John Bolton, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, second from right, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, far right, listens as President Donald address the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday Sept. 25, 2018 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

U.N. court, laughably, orders U.S. to dump sanctions

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo briefs reporters at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. Pompeo has announced that the U.S. is canceling a 1955 treaty with Iran establishing economic relations and consular rights between the two nations. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

U.S. cancels 1950s treaty with Iran after international court rules against sanctions

By David R. Sands and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Palestinians ask court to order US embassy out of Jerusalem

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Iran petitioned the International Court of Justice last month to consider whether sanctions the U.S. has begun reimposing as part of its withdrawal from the Obama-era Iranian nuclear deal violate a little-known 1955 friendship agreement between the nations. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

State Department legal advisers defend U.S. sanctions against Iran

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

A United Nations flag flutters in the wind next to the International Court of Justice in the Hague, the Netherlands, Monday Aug. 27, 2018. Iran is going to the United Nations' highest court in a bid to have U.S. sanctions lifted. Iran filed the case with the International Court of Justice in July, claiming that sanctions the Trump administration imposed on May 8 breach a 1955 bilateral agreement known as the Treaty of Amity that regulates economic and consular ties between the two countries. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

US insists re-imposition of Iran sanctions is legal

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

A United Nations flag flutters in the wind next to the International Court of Justice in the Hague, the Netherlands, Monday Aug. 27, 2018. Iran is going to the United Nations' highest court in a bid to have U.S. sanctions lifted. Iran filed the case with the International Court of Justice in July, claiming that sanctions the Trump administration imposed on May 8 breach a 1955 bilateral agreement known as the Treaty of Amity that regulates economic and consular ties between the two countries. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Iran asks UN’s highest court to suspend U.S. sanctions

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

World Court opinion sought on UK-Mauritius islands dispute

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Roman Kolodkin, head of the legal department of the Russian Foreign Affairs ministry, left, waits for the judges to enter the World Court to deliver the order on provisional measures in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in the case brought by the Ukraine against Russia accusing Moscow of financing separatist rebels and racially discriminating against ethnic Tartars and Ukrainians in the annexed Crimea peninsula. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

U.N. court rejects Ukraine request to block rebel funding

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Members of the Indian delegation to the International Court of Justice, Neeru Chadha, left, and Harish Salve, center, greet a member of the Marshall Islands' legal team ahead of a preliminary hearing on nuclear disarmament at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, March 7, 2016. The Marshall Islands, home to the Bikini Atoll nuclear testing site, is urging nuclear powers India, Pakistan and Britain to resume disarmament negotiations. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

World court has no jurisdiction in nuclear disarmament case

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this file photo taken on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014, and supplied by Sea Shepherd Australia on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, three dead minke whales lie on the deck of the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru, in the Southern Ocean. (AP Photo/Tim Watters, Sea Shepherd Australia)

World court: Japanese whaling not scientific

By Toby Sterling - Associated Press

In this September, 2013 photo, a minke whale is unloaded at a port after a whaling for scientific purposes in Kushiro, in the northernmost main island of Hokkaido. The International Court of Justice on Monday, March 31, 2014, ordered a temporary halt to Japan's Antarctic whaling program, ruling that it is not for scientific purposes as the Japanese had claimed. Australia had sued Japan at the U.N.'s highest court for resolving disputes between nations in hopes of ending whaling in the icy Southern Ocean. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

U.N. court orders Japan to halt annual whale hunt

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times