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Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at which countries are choosing to defy the ICC arrest warrant for Israel’s top leader, Iran’s new uranium-enriching advanced centrifuges, and upcoming presidential elections in Romania and Uruguay. Flouting the ICC Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban vowed on Friday to defy the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) recent […]
Hungary, unlike the United States, is a signatory to the court, which accused the Israeli leader of war crimes in Gaza. Source link
Hungary’s illiberal prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has said he will invite his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, to visit in defiance of an international criminal court arrest warrant, as world leaders split over the ICC’s momentous decision. The world’s highest criminal court issued warrants on Thursday for Netanyahu, his former defence minister Yoav Gallant and the […]
Biden says arrest warrant against Netanyahu is ‘outrageous’, while Hungary pledges to ignore the ICC
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose country holds the EU’s rotating presidency, said he will invite Netanyahu to visit in defiance of the ICC. Source link
Many of Israel’s Western allies, including Australia, the UK, France, Germany and Canada, are ICC signatories, meaning they are obliged by the treaty establishing the court to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant if they visit. But there is nothing the court can do to force such a move. Loading Dutch and Canadian leaders, for example, signalled […]
November 22, 2024 09:19 | News Australia has defended the independence of the top international court after it issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister, former defence minister and a Hamas commander. The International Criminal Court (ICC) found there were reasonable grounds that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant bore criminal […]
Washington: The United States “fundamentally rejects” a decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant, the White House said Thursday. “We remain deeply concerned by the Prosecutor’s rush to seek arrest warrants and the troubling process errors that led to this […]
Netanyahu’s office: ICC ruling is ‘absurd and false lies’ and ‘antisemitic’ In his first response to the ICC issuing a warrant for his arrest on allegations of war crimes, Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has described the ruling as “absurd and false lies” and said the decision is “antisemitic.” Benjamin Netanyahu’s office say they categorically reject the […]
The Philippine National Police Aviation Security Group (PNP-AVSEGROUP) reported that on Thursday night (7 November), in collaboration with the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) Quezon City District Field Unit, a joint operation was successfully carried out to execute a warrant of arrest against a 51-year-old female passenger who attempted to depart the country for […]
PROGRESO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Progreso Port of Entry last night encountered a man wanted in the Chihuahua, Mexico area on an outstanding felony warrant for aggravated murder in connection with the alleged murder of his wife. “This significant apprehension of a man wanted in Mexico for aggravated murder illustrates […]