Mike Corder, Associated Press

The court said Israel must end settlement construction immediately and that existing settlements must be removed, according to the 83-page opinion.

Although Israel is unlikely to comply with the ruling, which stopped short of ordering a full cease-fire, it will ratchet up the pressure on the increasingly isolated country.

The case will likely drag on for years. At its heart is the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which was drawn up in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust.

Members of the Joint Investigation Team said they had insufficient evidence to prosecute Russian President Vladimir Putin or any other suspects, and they suspended their 8½-year inquiry into the shootdown that killed all 298 people on board the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

Mark Rutte said the government is not offering compensation to descendants of slaves but is establishing a 200 million-euro fund for initiatives addressing the legacy of slavery.

Criminal gangs divulged plans for moving drug shipments and carrying out killings on a messaging app secretly run by the FBI, law enforcement agencies said Tuesday.

An assailant stabbed three people Friday night in a busy shopping district in the Netherlands, authorities said.

With his country struggling to stave off financial collapse, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will try to convince European creditors to agree on a new bailout program when they meet Tuesday for an emergency eurozone summit.

Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to buy British gas producer BG Group for 47 billion pounds ($69.7 billion) in cash and stock, the companies announced Wednesday. The move gives oil giant Shell a greater stake in natural gas markets in the wake of tumbling oil prices.