Veteran Argentine diplomat and current head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, UN’s nuclear body, puts an end to months of speculation about a run for top global diplomatic position.

<article data-history-node-id="432089" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/icc-limbo-chief-prosecutors-fate-uncertain-ahead-member-states-assembly" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/icc-limbo-chief-prosecutors-fate-uncertain-ahead-member-states-assembly" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">ICC 'in limbo' as chief prosecutor's fate uncertain ahead of member states assembly</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The International Criminal Court's governing body is set to meet in The Hague with uncertainty still surrounding the future of the court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, and the outcome of an outsourced investigation into an alleged sexual misconduct complaint against him.</p> <p>The annual session of the Assembly of State Parties (ASP), which begins on Monday, comes after the ASP's bureau had previously<a href="https://asp.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/asp_docs/2025-Bureau14-Agenda-Decisions.pdf" target="_blank">&nbsp;said</a>&nbsp;it expected a United Nations investigation into Khan to be completed by the end of October.</p> <p>The delay - unacknowledged publicly by the ASP bureau or the UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), which is conducting the probe - has left the court&nbsp;in a state of limbo.&nbsp;</p> <p>The meeting of the ASP, which is made up of representatives from 125 countries that have ratified the ICC's founding Rome Statute, is also taking place at a time of unprecedented threats to the court, prompted mostly by its investigation into Israel over alleged war crimes in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories.</p> <p>Since February, US President Donald Trump's administration has imposed financial and visa sanctions on Khan, his two deputy prosecutors and six judges, and has threatened sanctions against the court itself - described by some as a doomsday scenario.</p> <p>The ICC, established in 2002, is the world's only permanent international court with the power to prosecute senior officials for international crimes.&nbsp;It is currently investigating a dozen&nbsp;<a href="https://www.icc-cpi.int/situations-under-investigations?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank">situations</a>,&nbsp;including&nbsp;Palestine, Ukraine, Darfur (Sudan), Libya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Philippines.</p> <p>The court has been functioning without a chief prosecutor since May, when Khan took a leave of absence pending the outcome of the misconduct probe. Khan strenuously denies the allegations against him.&nbsp;</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-limbo-prosecutors-misconduct-report-uncertain">ICC 'in limbo' as chief prosecutor's fate uncertain ahead of member states assembly</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan speaking last year at the twenty-third session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, at the World Forum Convention Center in The Hague (ICC photo gallery)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="702dcffb-b36c-4820-b2c3-6e60e3dce222" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/karim-khan-asp-2024-icc-flikr.jpeg" width="1400" height="788" alt="ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan speaking last year at the twenty-third session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, at the World Forum Convention Center in The Hague (ICC photo gallery)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan speaking last year at the twenty-third session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, at the World Forum Convention Center in The Hague (ICC photo gallery)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <section>&nbsp;</section> </div> </div> </article>

Le 16 juillet 2025, M. Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, ressortissant libyen, a été arrêté par les autorités de la République fédérale d’Allemagne en vertu d’un mandat d’arrêt délivré sous scellés par la...