International Criminal Court denounces latest US sanctions

THE International Criminal Court (ICC) today condemned the US for imposing new sanctions on its president and top staff. Decrying a “flagrant attack” on the court’s independence, it said that “when judicial actors are threatened for applying the law, it is the international legal order itself that is placed at risk.” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched further attacks on the court yesterday, calling it “a corrupt and fatally politicised supranational court that has maliciously abused its…