Saleh Al Satari, 12, who lost his leg in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza and recently received a prosthetic limb in Jordan, walks with his father, Arafat Yousef, at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
The watchdog said it interviewed the woman and ended its inquiry after five days when she opted against filing a formal complaint. Khan himself wasn’t questioned at the time.While the watchdog could not determine wrongdoing, it nonetheless urged Khan in a memo to minimize contact with the woman to protect the rights of all involved and safeguard the court’s integrity.
The ICC statement on Friday said Khan “communicated his decision to take leave until the end” of an external investigation being carried by the Office of Internal Oversight Services, theThe court’s deputy prosecutors will be in charge of managing the prosecutor’s office while Khan is on leave, the statement said.The work of the court will continue, according to Danya Chaikel, the ICC representative from the International Federation for Human Rights. “The cases and investigations have been carried out by professionals,” she told the AP.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration filed sanctions against Khan in February in relation to his Israel warrants. The sanctions areon a broad array of investigations at the court.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Last fall, weeks before Donald Trump was elected U.S. president, Ukrainian President
floated a pitch that proposed, among other things, an economic deal that would allow Washington access to Ukraine’s largely untapped minerals and deepen strategic ties.Associated Press writer Hanna Arhirova contributed to this report.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Palestinian student arrested as he was about to finalize his U.S. citizenship accused Columbia University on Thursday of eroding democracy with itsagainst the Israel-Hamas war.
Mohsen Mahdawi, 34, whoat the Ivy League school in New York in 2023 and 2024, spent 16 days in a Vermont prison before a judge ordered him released on April 30. On Friday, an appeals court in New York denied the government’s request to halt that order, saying the Trump administration’s jurisdictional arguments were unlikely to succeed and that it hadn’t shown that Mahdawi’s release has caused irreparable harm.