THE HAGUE—The member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) are set to elect on Friday a new chief prosecutor for the war crimes tribunal, a grueling job whose current holder is under US sanctions.
Four candidates from Britain, Ireland, Italy and Spain are vying to replace outgoing Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, who has led controversial probes into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Afghanistan.
Bensouda is known to Filipinos for angering President Duterte when she opened a preliminary examination of the thousands of killings in his administration’s war on drugs.
“That short lady there, the black, announcing investigation—if I see you, I will slap you. Who are yo…
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