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The Trump administration imposed fresh sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court on Friday, taking action against the court itself after previously penalizing more than a dozen of its judges and prosecutors.
“Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement announcing the measures.
The move came just hours after the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced it was awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, a South African-born human rights official who served as an ICC judge from 2003 to 2008. Pillay also led a U.N. inquiry that determined last year that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. Israel strongly disputed the report’s findings.
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