Russia withdraws from ICC as Philippines threatens to follow suit
A combined picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin and International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. AFP PHOTOS
Russia dealt the International Criminal Court a fresh blow Wednesday as the court's top officials urged nations to support the tribunal hit by a wave of unprecedented defections.
Moscow has never ratified the world's only permanent war crimes court, but in a heavily symbolic move on the opening day of the ICC's annual meeting, it said it was formally withdrawing its signature to the tribunal's founding Rome Statute.
