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ICC judges OK trial for alleged Islamic extremist from Mali

February 19, 2020

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International Criminal Court judges on Wednesday rejected an appeal by an alleged Islamic extremist from Mali who argued that the charges against him were not serious enough to merit standing trial at the global court.The...

Sudan seeks to end terror designation in USS Cole settlement

By NOHA ELHENNAWY | February 13, 2020

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan's transitional government said Thursday it has reached a settlement with families of the victims of the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, a key step in having the U.S. remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism...

UN list targets firms linked to Israeli settlements

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and JAMEY KEATEN | February 12, 2020

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N. human rights office on Wednesday released a list of more than 100 companies it said are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights by operating in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank — a first-ever international...

Lawyers to ICC: Free Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo unconditionally

By MIKE CORDER | February 6, 2020

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International Criminal Court judges should scrap conditions of release imposed on Ivory Coast's former president, his lawyers argued Thursday in a move they hope will free Laurent Gbagbo to return home during a tense election...

International court gathering evidence in Rohingya case

By JULHAS ALAM | February 5, 2020

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Investigators from the International Criminal Court have begun collecting evidence for a case involving alleged crimes against humanity by Myanmar against Rohingya Muslims causing them to flee to neighboring Bangladesh, a court...

In blessing annexation, Trump erodes an international norm

By TAMER FAKAHANY | February 4, 2020

Annexation, at its heart, is a byproduct of conflict. Almost never is it an act of peace, though it has been cast that way at times throughout human history.Certainly not under international law, which describes it as the forcible acquisition of territory...

Italy, Cyprus say Turkey-Libya maritime deal ‘unacceptable’

January 29, 2020

ROME (AP) — A maritime border agreement between Turkey and Libya's U.N.-backed government is “unacceptable," violates international law and flouts the sovereign rights of other countries, the foreign ministers of Italy and Cyprus said Wednesday..Italian...

Israel could clash with international court on settlements

By JOSEF FEDERMAN | January 29, 2020

JERUSALEM (AP) — Emboldened by a supportive White House, Israel appears to be barreling toward a showdown with the international community over its half-century-old settlement enterprise in the West Bank.With the prosecutor of the International Criminal...

Dutch court throws out case against Israeli military chiefs

By MIKE CORDER | January 29, 2020

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court threw out a civil case Wednesday brought by a Dutch-Palestinian man seeking damages from two former Israeli military commanders for their roles in a 2014 airstrike on a Gaza house that killed six members of...