Trump tells UN: All nations should quit ICC

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President Donald Trump called on all International Criminal Court member states to resign from the body during a fiery UN speech Tuesday, denouncing it as a "rogue institution" and an "anti-American tribunal" threatening US sovereignty. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has vowed to dismantle the ICC "brick by brick," and Washington has imposed sanctions on court officials, angered by the ICC's arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a close US ally. The US is not an ICC member and never ratified the Rome Statute, alongside Israel, Russia, and China. The court tries individuals for the world's worst crimes.


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