{"id":77567,"date":"2026-08-18T13:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/us-sanctions-international-criminal-court-president-and-prosecutor\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:55:32","slug":"us-sanctions-international-criminal-court-president-and-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/us-sanctions-international-criminal-court-president-and-prosecutor\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions international criminal court president and prosecutor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Rubio targets ICC\u2019s Tomoko Akane and Abdoulaye Seye, who was investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza<\/p>\n<p>The US has sanctioned the president of the international criminal court (ICC) and a prosecutor tasked with investigating crimes committed by Israel during its war on Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The new sanctions designations were unveiled by Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, who called the Hague-based ICC a \u201ccorrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate\u201d, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/18\/us-icc-sanctions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Rubio targets ICC\u2019s Tomoko Akane and Abdoulaye Seye, who was investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza The US has sanctioned the president of the international criminal court (ICC) and a prosecutor tasked with investigating crimes committed by Israel during its war on Gaza. The new sanctions designations were unveiled by Marco Rubio, the US &#8230; <a title=\"US sanctions international criminal court president and prosecutor\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/us-sanctions-international-criminal-court-president-and-prosecutor\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US sanctions international criminal court president and prosecutor\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}