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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators chant slogans and make public speeches in Cape Town as Israel will face accusations lodged by South Africa at the UN's top court that it has committed "genocidal" acts in Gaza, charges the country's president dismissed as "atrocious" and "preposterous". IMAGES
In an unnanounced visit to the Netherlands, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives at The Hague's International Criminal Court, which has issued an arrest warrant for Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Zelensky is set to meet the leaders of the ICC, Dutch MPs and Prime Minister Mark Rutte during his first official visit to the country. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announces that the US is placing sanctions on the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, objecting to the continued investigation into US soldiers for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. SOUNDBITE
US attorney general William Barr accuses Russia of "manipulating" the International Criminal Court "in pursuit of their own agenda", as President Donald Trump announced sanctions against court officials who target US troops. SOUNDBITE
A Paris court has approved the transfer of Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, arrested in France after decades on the run, to a UN body for trial. Accused of financing the 1994 genocide of some 800,000 people, Kabuga asked to be tried in France, and he can still appeal the decision to hand him over to the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) for a trial in Arusha, Tanzania. Images of his lawyers arriving IMAGES
Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at the UN's top court Tuesday to personally defend Myanmar against accusations of genocide against Rohingya Muslims. Wearing traditional Burmese dress, Myanmar's civilian leader did not speak to waiting media as she stepped out of a car into the International Court of Justice in The Hague. IMAGES of Aung San Suu Kyi