Leaders Flex Muscles Against International Criminal Court
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Leaders Flex Muscles Against International Criminal Court

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines There aren’t a lot of countries Israel’s prime minister can visit without risking arrest. Which makes the red-carpet treatment Benjamin Netanyahu received in Hungary — Europe’s only proud “illiberal democracy” — all the more noteworthy. Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, invited Mr. Netanyahu…

Detained in The Hague, Duterte Pursues a Political Comeback at Home
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Detained in The Hague, Duterte Pursues a Political Comeback at Home

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Rodrigo Duterte has been kept in a cell in The Hague for more than three weeks on charges of crimes against humanity for the deadly antidrug campaigns he oversaw in the Philippines. But the former president is still on the ballot in elections…

Hungary Announces ICC Withdrawal as Netanyahu Visits
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Hungary Announces ICC Withdrawal as Netanyahu Visits

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Hungary said on Thursday that it would pull out of the International Criminal Court, announcing its decision just hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel arrived there for a visit despite facing an international arrest warrant. The government of Prime Minister Viktor…

Netanyahu Arrives in Hungary, Finding a Rare Welcome in Europe
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Netanyahu Arrives in Hungary, Finding a Rare Welcome in Europe

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Thursday began a visit to Hungary, confident that Europe’s self-declared bastion of “illiberal democracy” would ignore an arrest warrant issued against him in November by the International Criminal Court. The visit is Mr. Netanyahu’s first to…

Opinion | Duterte Is Enjoying the Due Process He Denied to His Thousands of Victims
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Opinion | Duterte Is Enjoying the Due Process He Denied to His Thousands of Victims

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines He died from a bullet to the back of the head and two in the chest. A watchlist of alleged drug users and dealers kept by local officials identified the dead man as “De Juan, Constantino, a.k.a. Juan,” 37, and a drug “pusher.”…

Trump Administration Ends Tracking of Kidnapped Ukrainian Children in Russia
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Trump Administration Ends Tracking of Kidnapped Ukrainian Children in Russia

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The State Department has ended funding for the tracking of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and American officials or contractors might have deleted a database with information on them, according to a letter that U.S. lawmakers plan to send to Secretary…

Duterte Appears in Court in The Hague via Video After Arrest
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Duterte Appears in Court in The Hague via Video After Arrest

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In a scenario once considered unthinkable for a head of state who presided over the public and brutal killings of thousands of civilians, Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, appeared at an International Criminal Court hearing via a video link on…

The People Whose Children Were Killed in Duterte’s Drug War
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The People Whose Children Were Killed in Duterte’s Drug War

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Emily Soriano was doing laundry this week when a friend rushed into her house with news about their yearslong quest for justice. In December 2016, gunmen stormed into a house in their poor neighborhood north of Manila and started shooting. They killed seven…

Trump Imposes Sanctions on the ICC, Accusing It of Targeting the U.S. and Israel
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Trump Imposes Sanctions on the ICC, Accusing It of Targeting the U.S. and Israel

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday placing sanctions on the International Criminal Court, saying that his administration would “impose tangible and significant consequences” on people who work on investigations that threaten the national security of the United States and its allies,…