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POLITICS● ELEVATED5d ago · Oct 9, 2026, 2:51 PM

US slaps sanctions on ICC, hours after ex-judge wins Nobel

South China Morning Post · global

US President Donald Trump’s administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court on Friday, hours after one of its former judges won the Nobel Peace Prize, putting Washington on a diplomatic collision course with European allies. The court denounced the move as an “assault on the rule of law and on the very foundations of the international legal order” and called on its 125 member states to take action to defend it. “The court cannot stand alone. Its fate now rests also in the...

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