Officials announced the sanctions just hours after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a former ICC judge.

Trump administration officials, facing numerous allegations of war crimes in its actions ranging from Iran to Cuba, issued punishing sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday that threaten the future of the entire body and its work to hold war criminals and genocidaires to account. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, fresh off of his ultra-nationalist speech at the…

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