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SummarySanctions target ICC judges over Afghanistan, Israel cases ICC condemns sanctions as undermining judicial independence Sanctions complicate financial transactions for targeted judges WASHINGTON/THE HAGUE, June 5 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court, an unprecedented retaliation over the war tribunal's cases regarding alleged war crimes by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and over the court's issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Washington designated Solomy Balungi Bossa of Uganda, Luz del Carmen Ibanez Carranza of Peru, Reine Adelaide Sophie Alapini Gansou of Benin, and Beti Hohler...

Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is surging, cutting ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s frontrunner status in the Democratic primary to just a single digit lead, according to a new poll released Wednesday. The latest PIX 11/ Emerson College poll has the Queens state Assemblyman holding his own with Cuomo for 10 rounds of ranked-choice voting before being eliminated with a nine-point spread, 54.4% to 45.6%. But with less than a month to the June 24 Democratic mayoral primary, only a small fraction of voters appear to be up for grabs, with 3.5% of voters still undecided, according to the survey conducted...

They were reviled by much of the world and responsible, collectively, for tens of thousands of deaths of those they ruled with brute force and terror. In the end, though, these dictators fled into exile. A look at a few of the most notable: IDI AMIN - One of the 20th century's most notorious dictators, Amin presided over the murder of more than 400,000 of his fellow Ugandans and allegedly ate some of their flesh. His eight-year bloody reign ended in 1979, when Tanzanian forces stormed Uganda in retaliation for an attack by Amin's troops. Saudi Arabia offered him...

Three Americans convicted for their role in a failed coup in Democratic Republic of Congo last year have had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment, the presidency has said. They were among 37 people sentenced to death last September by a military court. The three were accused of leading an attack on both the presidential palace and the home of an ally of President Félix Tshisekedi last May. The overturning of the sentences comes ahead of a visit to DR Congo by the newly appointed US senior advisor for Africa, Massad Boulos. Boulos, father-in-law to President Donald Trump's daughter,...

A Ugandan judge has been found guilty of human trafficking and conspiracy to intimidate a victim in a case that has shocked observers. Lydia Mugambe, a High Court judge in Uganda and a UN judicial officer, was arrested under the Modern Slavery Act in the UK. Police footage showed her expressing disbelief as officers informed her of the charges. She insisted she had diplomatic immunity and denied any wrongdoing. During the trial, prosecutors argued that Mugambe had exploited a young Ugandan woman, misleading her about the purpose of her travel to the UK and subjecting her to unfair working conditions....

Millions of taxpayer dollars were poised to be completely wasted, going toward efforts to drive “social and behavior” changes in Uganda and develop “socially responsible” behaviors in Colombia, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced this week.“US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all which have been cancelled,” DOGE announced, providing a list of several ways the U.S. government was poised to waste hard-earned taxpayer dollars. For example, $42 million was expected to go to Johns Hopkins to “research and drive ‘social and behavior change’ in Uganda.” Another $25 million was set to “‘promote biodiversity...

Uganda (or its NGO racket at least) is hopping mad that, as a result of the temporary freeze on funding placed by the Trump administration on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), it is no longer able to secure condoms and lubricants."People will die," said one.Say what?! The freeze has been in effect for just a few days.Moreover, I didn’t know the U.S. was, for some reason, solely responsible for providing Ugandans with condoms and lubricants.Of course, I was also blissfully unaware that Uncle Sam was funding abortions and “transgender care” around the planet, or that we were...

Life for Mike Elvis Tusubira, a motorcycle taxi rider with HIV in Uganda, has been turned upside down since US President Donald Trump halted foreign aid last month. Not only does the 35-year-old fear for his own survival as he takes life-saving anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs - but he says he will have to split up from his wife as they can no longer have safe sex. His partner is HIV-negative and relies on PrEP, a medicine that reduces the risk of contracting HIV. "It means that even my marriage will end, because actually without the preventive measures, she's not going...

I don’t know who this young woman from Uganda is, but she makes more sense than the entire Democratic House and Senate caucuses combined. I find it interesting that President Trump’s temporary pause in foreign aid spending has brought some foreign voices out of the woodwork, saying, yes: USAID’s spending is riddled with fraud and political corruption, and as a result is at best a mixed blessing for recipient countries:

Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Thursday. It is the East African country's ninth outbreak since it recorded its first infection of the viral disease in 2000. The patient, a male nurse at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, had initially sought treatment at various facilities, including Mulago, as well as with a traditional healer, after developing fever-like symptoms. "The patient experienced multi-organ failure and succumbed to the illness at Mulago National Referral Hospital on Jan. 29....

The government has repatriated more than 13,000 refugees back to their home countries amid dwindling refugee funding in the country.The Commissioner for Refugees Management in the Office of the Prime Minister, Mr Patrick Okello, said the exercise has been going on since the beginning of the year and the majority of the repatriated refugees are from Burundi.“We encourage voluntary repatriation of refugees to go back to their countries of origin. We are already doing that for Burundi. We engaged them, their government and the government back home accepted to take them back,” Mr Okello said during the launch of the...

In the US Senate resolutions proposed by Vermont US Senator Bernie Sanders to block... An Israeli air strike late tonight... In Canada Randy Boissonnault resigning as a cabinet minister in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party government... The Netherlands ordering all commercial poultry to be kept indoors... China saying its ships are ordered to comply strictly with international maritime law... Mozambique's Attorney General filing a civil lawsuit against the leader of the opposition... In Georgia 22-year-old Venezuelan defendant Jose Antonio Ibarra found guilty of the murder...Laken Riley...given a life prison sentence... A Danish warship anchored in the vicinity of a...

Police say Rebecca Cheptegei, who recently competed at Paris Olympics, was doused with petrol and set ablaze on Sunday during dispute with her partner Dickson Ndiema MarangachUgandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, who recently competed in the 10,000-meter race at the Paris Olympics, died in a hospital on Thursday, five days after her partner set fire to her home in western Trans Nzoia County, Kenya. Owen Menach, director of Clinical Services at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret, confirmed her death to the media on Thursday morning. Jeremiah Ole Kosiom, Trans Nzoia County police commander, told the media...

Rebecca Cheptegei, a Ugandan marathon runner who competed in the Paris Olympics last month, has died days after she was burned by her boyfriend, the country’s athletics federation confirmed on X, formerly known as Twitter, Thursday. “We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our athlete, Rebecca Cheptegei early this morning who tragically fell victim to domestic violence,” the Uganda Athletics Federation posted. “As a federation, we condemn such acts and call for justice. May her soul rest In Peace.” Cheptegei, 33, who lived in Kenya, had been in a critical condition after suffering burns on 75% of her...

A group of Ugandan children have gone viral after sharing a recreation of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Days after the horrific, near-fatal shooting shocked the world, the group of children, led by TikToker Blud Ug, revealed how far around the globe the shocking images have spread as they mimicked the chaotic - and now infamous - scenes. Using wooden rifles and a lectern made of plastic crates, the Ugandan children satirically reproduced the shooting as the child playing Trump pumped his fist in the air and yelled, 'Fight.' The clip has racked up millions of views across social...

CHILDREN IN UGANDA RECREATE TRUMP SHOOTING

Around five suspected rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) group were involved in the attack on the private school..."On arrival, the school was found burning with dead bodies of students lying in the compound..." The U.S. State Department designated the ADF an Islamic State affiliate as well as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 2021...

In this video some young boys in Uganda are putting on a skit of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. He is loved around the world, and especially in third world countries, because in their countries when a man who truly cares about the people, they get assassinated. So they love that he will fight for them. He is becoming the most loved politician in the world with the common people.

More military action around an inside Yemen in recent hours... Two weeks after the sudden death of his wife Rhonda Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky returning to social media... A news conference this evening involving following a gaffe earlier in the day...during the conference Biden referencing Vice-President Kamala Harris as "Vice President Trump"... French politics on social media tonight Marine Le Pen of the National Rally saying RN members of the National Assembly will censure any government that includes... Russian Aerospace forces striking jihadist targets in northwestern Syria... NBC News quoting close allies of Joe Biden... NATO ratcheting up...

The Ugandan MP Sarah Achieng Opendi, who called for homosexuals to be castrated during a parliamentary debate on the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws has been denied a visa to attend a UN meeting in New York next week. Opendi expressed “shock” after the US embassy in Kampala rejected her application to travel to the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women , pending “administrative” review. “Ninety-six per cent of MPs voted in favour of the bill and I am aware of a number of MPs that have gotten visas to the US yet they supported the bill,”...