THE HAGUE — Britain’s Karim Khan starts Wednesday as prosecutor of the International Criminal Court with a daunting caseload including a probe into Israel and the Palestinians, the most politically fraught file in the tribunal’s history.
Khan replaces Gambia’s Fatou Bensouda, who dramatically extended the ICC’s reach during her nine-year tenure but suffered a series of high-profile failures, including the acquittal of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo.
The 51-year-old Khan, who was elected by ICC member nations in February to become just the third prosecutor so far of the world’s only permanent war crimes court, will be sworn in at a ceremony in T…
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