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A woman pulls her bags past houses damaged during fighting in eastern Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, April 8, 2022. Ukraine says it is investigating a claim that a poisonous substance was dropped on the besieged city of Mariupol. Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said Tuesday, April 12, 2022 it was possible that phosphorus munitions — which cause horrendous burns but are not classed as chemical weapons — had been used. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, file)

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EXPLAINER: How to investigate alleged chemical attacks
By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press
Tue,04/12/22-12:17PM , 244 Reads
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine said Tuesday it is investigating a claim that a poisonous substance was dropped on the besieged city of Mariupol. Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said it was possible that phosphorus munitions — which cause horrendous burns but are not classed as chemical weapons — had been used.
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Staff handles forensic evidence at the laboratory of the International Commission on Missing Persons in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

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Experts set to travel to Ukraine to identify the war's dead
By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press
Fri,04/08/22-7:35AM , 228 Reads
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An international organization formed to identify the dead and missing from the 1990s Balkan conflicts is preparing to send a team of forensics experts to Ukraine as the death toll mounts more than
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This image provided by World Press Photo which won the World Press Photo Of The Year award by Amber Bracken for The New York Times, titled Kamloops Residential School, shows Red dresses hung on crosses along a roadside commemorate children who died at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, an institution created to assimilate Indigenous children, following the detection of as many as 215 unmarked graves, Kamloops, British Columbia, 19 June 2021. (Amber Bracken for The New York Times/World Press Photo via AP)

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Haunting Canada boarding school shot wins World Press Photo
By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press
Thu,04/07/22-5:02AM , 370 Reads
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A haunting image of red dresses hung on crosses along a roadside, with a rainbow in the background, commemorating children who died at a residential school created to assimilate Indigenous children in Canada won the prestigious World Press Photo award Thursday.
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Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands Wopke Hoekstra delivers a speech next to France's European and Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian during a press conference, in Paris, Friday Jan 28, 2022. The Netherlands said on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, it was expelling 17 Russians who it described as intelligence officers masquerading as diplomats. Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said he was prepared for a retaliation from Moscow. (Thomas Coex/Pool photo via AP, File)

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Europeans expel dozens of Russian envoys to combat espionage
By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press
Tue,03/29/22-9:56AM , 308 Reads
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — In what appeared to be a coordinated action to tackle Russian espionage, at least four European allies expelled dozens of Russian diplomats on Tuesday.

The expulsions come as relations between Russia and the West have plunged into a deep freeze following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
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