The Belgian government has decided to repeal a controversial war crimes law that has been used in attempts to indict leaders around the world for crimes against humanity. The "universal competence" law will be withdrawn and replaced with a new text that has considerably less scope and is more in line with other western countries, Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt told a press conference. The 1993 law dragged Belgium into a diplomatic minefield as cases were brought against US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, among others, accusing them of war crimes over the war in...