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The International Criminal Court receives a wave of support after it’s hit with US sanctions. Donald Trump’s executive orders are coming thick and fast. The latest being sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC). Trump claims the ICC abuses its power, taking “illegitimate and baseless” actions against the US and its biggest ally Israel. He…
War crimes prosecutor Reed Brody talks about what’s needed now, now that Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on the ICC. Source link
Sometimes in sport as in life, you encounter an idea whose time has come. Ideas seldom come fully formed. Often they appear by accident and only years later do we marvel at their inevitability. The first one-day international was played in 1970-71 just to give spectators something to cheer about when an Ashes Test was…
The United States House of Representatives has voted in favour of a bill to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) in retaliation for its arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. Legislators in the lower chamber of the US Congress passed the “Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act”…
Polish PM Donald Tusk says Israeli prime minister will not be detained despite ICC arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. The Polish government has adopted a resolution promising that senior Israeli officials – including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – can freely travel to Poland for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp…
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has fined Pakistan players 25 percent of their match fee and also docked the team five World Test Championship points for maintaining a slow over-rate against South Africa in the second test at Newlands. South Africa, which will take on Australia in the WTC final at Lord’s in June, swept…
England should refuse to play the Champions Trophy cricket match against Afghanistan next month according to a letter signed by more than 160 U.K. politicians. The politicians want the England and Wales Cricket Board to take a stand against the Taliban regime’s assault on women’s rights and boycott the men’s ODI against Afghanistan in Lahore,…
The chairs of Cricket Australia (CA), England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the International Cricket Council (ICC) are reportedly set to meet later in January to discuss where each of them stand on the matter of the introduction of a two-tier structure in Test cricket. According to a report in The Sydney Morning Herald,…
File photo of ICC president Jay Shah. | Photo Credit: PTI The ICC in collaboration with cricket boards of India, Australia and England is exploring the possibility of a two-tier Test system to facilitate more series between big three nations. The Age reported that Jay Shah, the new ICC chairman, is set to meet Cricket…
