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The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected a request by the Palestinian Authority to recognise the court's jurisdiction.

If you don’t know who Joseph Kony is at this point in time, which seems unlikely, I invite you to watch this video – which has been viewed by over 50 million people in the past two weeks – or read this Wikipedia article. Kony is #1 on the International Criminal Court’s list of people indicted by them for crimes against humanity. He and his movement, the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) have abducted tens of thousands of children over the past 25+ years, forcing them to become sex slaves or boy soldiers who have murdered and mutilated thousands of others.

The International Criminal Court said Saturday that Libya's Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was in contact via intermediaries about surrendering for trial, but it also had information mercenaries were trying to spirit him to a friendly African nation.

A delegation of human rights organizations and their lawyers Tuesday accused the Syrian government of committing crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands, according to a statement released by the group.

The International Criminal Court at the Hague issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for a five-year campaign of violence in Darfur.