Mike Corder

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Netherlands' Robin van Persie scores a goal during the group B World Cup soccer match between Spain and the Netherlands at the Arena Ponte Nova in Salvador, Brazil, Friday, June 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Netherlands thrashes Spain 5-1 in World Cup opener

Mike Corder · June 14, 2014 1:10 am

In this picture taken Friday June 6, 2014 German national soccer player Marco Reus lies on the pitch during the friendly soccer match between Germany and Armenia in Mainz Germany. Reus was helped off the pitch after twisting his left ankle while challenging Artur Yedigaryan for the ball. Reus immediately dropped to the grass and appeared in considerable pain. Team doctor Hans-Wilhelm Mueller-Wohlfahrt shook his head as he assisted the Borussia Dortmund player off the pitch. Reus was taken to the hospital to determine the full extent of the injury. AP Photo/dpa,Thomas Eisenhuth)

Missing from World Cup action: Stars sidelined

Mike Corder · June 7, 2014 8:06 pm

Louis van Gaal, coach of the Netherlands soccer team, center, watches his team during a training session in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, June 6, 2014. The Netherlands plays in group B of the 2014 soccer World Cup. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Dutch hit the beach, then down to work in Rio

Mike Corder · June 6, 2014 8:49 pm

In this photo released by the Royal Palace on Monday June 2, 2014 and distributed by Spain's national agency EFE, Spain's King Juan Carlos makes a televised speech Monday in the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid announcing his abdication. Spain's King Juan Carlos plans to abdicate and pave the way for his son, Crown Prince Felipe, to take over, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told the country Monday in an announcement broadcast nationwide. The 76-year-old Juan Carlos oversaw his country's transition from dictatorship to democracy but has had repeated health problems in recent years. (AP Photo/Spanish Royal Palace/EFE)

Retiring royalty: Kings and queens can just quit?

Mike Corder · June 2, 2014 2:55 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, members of the UN investigation team take samples from the ground in the Damascus countryside of Zamalka, Syria. The chemical weapons watchdog that is overseeing the dismantling of Syria's chemical weapons program said Tuesday, May 27, 2014 that a convoy of its inspectors has come under attack, but all are safe. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said the inspectors had been traveling to the site of an alleged chlorine gas attack site when they were attacked. (AP Photo/Local Committee of Arbeen, File)

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Destruction of Syrian chemicals a work in progress

Mike Corder · May 28, 2014 3:10 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, members of the UN investigation team take samples from the ground in the Damascus countryside of Zamalka, Syria. The chemical weapons watchdog that is overseeing the dismantling of Syria's chemical weapons program said Tuesday, May 27, 2014 that a convoy of its inspectors has come under attack, but all are safe. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said the inspectors had been traveling to the site of an alleged chlorine gas attack site when they were attacked. (AP Photo/Local Committee of Arbeen, File)

OPCW-UN fact-finding mission was ambushed

Mike Corder · May 28, 2014 11:51 am

ICC sentences Congo warlord to 12 years

Mike Corder · May 23, 2014 8:58 am

Britain's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron and his wife Samantha pause to pose for photographers and television cameras as they leave after casting their votes at a polling station in central London, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Voters in 28 countries on Thursday begin choosing the next European Parliament and helping determine the EU's future leaders and course. Around 400 million Europeans are eligible to take part in what is termed the world's largest cross-border exercise in representative democracy. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Exit poll shows shock loss for Dutch euroskeptic

Mike Corder · May 22, 2014 10:24 pm

In this image made from video provided by the Libyan national army via AP Television, smoke rises over the parliament area after troops of Gen. Khalifa Hifter targeted Islamist lawmakers and officials at the parliament in Tripoli, Libya, Sunday, May 18, 2014. Forces loyal to a rogue Libyan general attacked the country's parliament Sunday, expanding his eastern offensive against Islamists into the heart of the country's capital. (AP Photo/Libyan national army)

War crimes court wants Gadhafi son for trial

Mike Corder · May 21, 2014 6:43 pm

Dutch populist and euro-sceptic Geert Wilders shows a yellow star he cut out of the EU flag in front of the European Parliament in Brussels, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Wilders is campaigning on a platform forbidding any further transfer of power to Europe, scrapping the Euro and control of immigration policy. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Dutch face Saudi anger over anti-Muslim lawmaker

Mike Corder · May 21, 2014 2:39 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2014 file image taken from video former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic smiles during his appearance at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands. On Monday, May 19, 2014 Mladic has launched the defense case in his long-running U.N. trial by calling a former Serb army officer who claims he was never ordered to fire on civilians in the besieged Bosnian capital. The 72-year-old Mladic denies 11 charges of ordering Serb atrocities throughout the 1991-95 Bosnian war. He faces a life sentence if convicted. (AP Photo/ICTY, Via Associated Press Television, File) TV OUT

Mladic starts defense at UN genocide trial

Mike Corder · May 19, 2014 10:37 am

Ukraine OKs intl court, may probe Kiev deaths

Mike Corder · April 17, 2014 9:57 pm