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Residents of Shetland in the UK celebrate their Viking heritage at the Up Helly Aa fire festival, held in Lerwick.
The court enjoys global jurisdiction.
Investigators will now need the authorization of the court’s judges to open a probe. Bensouda appealed for support from Nigeria’s government.
She said the army has dismissed accusations against government troops after examining them.
Boko Haram strictly opposes formal education. In 2015, Nigeria enlisted the support of neighbors Chad, Cameroon and Niger to try and defeat the group.
While the joint operations made the group lose considerable territory, they have not been able to wipe it out.
The ICC has conducted investigations in several African countries. In Sudan, Libya and Ivory Coast, former leaders were indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity after the investigations.
[Nation] Treasury set aside Sh576 million for a State-funded medical cover for doctors on contract but the Ministry of Health did not make a follow-up, prompting a recall of the money.
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Saturday executed a once-exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017, authorities said, just months after he returned to Tehran under mysterious circumstances. Iranian state television and the state-run IRNA news agency said that Ruhollah Zam, 47, was hanged early Saturday morning. The reports did not elaborate. In June, a court sentenced Zam to death, saying he had been convicted of 'corruption on Earth,' a charge often used in cases involving espionage or attempts to overthrow Iran's government. Zam's website AmadNews […]
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Morocco basked in US recognition of its sovereignty over Western Sahara Friday after outgoing President Donald Trump changed policy on the decades-old dispute in return for Rabat agreeing to normalise relations with Israel.
For the Polisario Front, which has campaigned for independence for the former Spanish colony since the 1970s, Trump's announcement marked a major setback and drew a promise to fight on until Moroccan forces withdraw.
But crucially, there was no immediate reaction from neighbouring Algeria, Morocco's regional rival and the Polisario's key foreign backer, whose support would be essential for any return to major fighting.
Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita hailed US recognition of Western Sahara's \"Moroccan identity\" as a \"historic diplomatic breakthrough\".
\"Several years of work\" had been \"crowned with the recognition of the United States, the major power on the (United Nations) Security Council,\" he told AFP in an interview.
Fellow permanent UNSC member Russia, historically close with Algeria, denounced the US move on Friday.
Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov called the decision \"unilateral\" and \"a violation of international law\".
Morocco's official MAP news agency published commentaries from an array of Moroccan and foreign analysts trumpeting the US announcement as \"vindication of the Moroccan cause\" and the \"beginning of the end for the Polisario gang\".
Prince Moulay Hicham Alaoui, a cousin of King Mohammed VI, tweeted his appreciation of the \"courageous\" decision by Trump.
Support for the Palestinian cause runs deep in Morocco, but criticism of the monarch remains a red line even after a decade of reforms.
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Islamist Prime Minister Saad-Eddine El Othmani, who has repeatedly spoken out against normalising relations with Israel in the past, made no immediate comment.
His adviser Nizar Khairoun welcomed US recognition that \"the Sahara is Moroccan\" but added: \"Israel is an occupying power that usurps the rights of the Palestinians.\"
He was careful, however, to avoid any direct criticism of the king, who made the agreement to normalise ties with Israel in a telephone call with Trump.
The hashtag \"#Normalisation is treason\" was among the most popular on social media Friday, but it was far outstripped by the hashtag \"#Sahara\".
The Polisario dismissed Trump's announcement and vowed to fight on until Moroccan forces withdraw from all of Western Sahara.
\"Fighting will continue until the total withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation troops,\" said Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, foreign minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), which Polisario leaders proclaimed in 1976.
The US decision was \"null and void\", Ould Salek said, emphasising that the international community \"does not recognise and will not recognise any Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara\".
Sovereignty \"belongs exclusively to the Sahrawi people\", he told AFP.
The Polisario had already announced last month that it regarded a 1991 ceasefire as over after Morocco sent
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma, according to a person familiar with a Justice Department tax investigation of President-elect Joe Biden's son. The breadth of the subpoena, issued Tuesday, underscores the wide-angle lens prosecutors are taking as they examine the younger Biden's finances and international business ventures. Hunter Biden's ties to Burisma in particular have long dogged the policy work and political aspirations of his father, Joe Biden, now the president-elect of the […]
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BY MIRIAM MANGWAYA SUSPENDED Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) Henrietta Rushwaya and his four accomplices in the gold smuggling case have put the State on notice that they will challenge their placement on remand if it fails to provide a trial date on January 8, 2021. Rushwaya is being jointly charged with Pakistani businessman Ali Muhammad, Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives Stephen Tserayi and Raphios Mufandauya and her ZMF colleague Gift Karanda on smuggling charges, illegal possession of gold, criminal abuse of office and defeating the course of justice. Rushwaya has another separate case in which she is being accused of attempting to bribe a police officer when she was arrested on gold smuggling. The five are being accused of attempting to smuggle 6kg of gold worth US$333 000 out of the country before they were caught at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport. Representing the State, prosecutor Charles Muchemwa said investigations on the case were still underway and were expected to be complete by January 8, next year The accused persons, through their lawyers, submitted before magistrate Ngoni Nduna yesterday that they will challenge further remand if they were not provided with a trial date on their next appearance in court. Rushwaya, Tserayi, Mufandauya and Karanda are in custody after they were denied bail by Nduna. Muhammad was released on $100 000 bail. They appealed against the ruling at the High Court. In her bail appeal submissions at the High Court, Rushwaya represented by lawyer Tapson Dzvetero, submitted that she was a suitable candidate for bail, arguing that Nduna's conclusion that she had connections abroad was based on speculation as there was no evidence to support it. CIO operative Mufandauya through his lawyer Joshua Chirambwe, also challenged the lower court ruling, arguing that the magistrate had adopted a selective approach in the bail proceedings when he granted Muhammad bail on the basis that he had been exonerated by Rushwaya, who on the same statement, had also exonerated Mufandauya. He submitted that by that decision he was denied his right of equal treatment before the law.
