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Reuters is reporting:
An International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir may have compromised the quest for peace in Darfur, a U.N. and African Union mediator said on Thursday.
The official, Djibrill Bassole, called on the U.N. Security Council to heed the concerns of the AU, an organization grouping 53 African countries that has urged the council to …

Jurist reports:
A Dutch court Monday convicted a former Rwandan Hutu for the 1994 killing of two Tutsi mothers and at least four of their children. Joseph Mpambara [TrialWatch profile], who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the killings, was allegedly a member of the Interahamwe [GlobalSecurity backgrounder], an extremist Hutu militia that was responsible for the deaths of …

The AP is reporting today:
Sudan’s Islamic scholars have issued a religious edict calling on the president not to travel to an Arab summit because of the international warrant against him on war crimes charges, state media reported Sunday.
The scholar’s fatwa, a nonbinding religious opinion, joins increasing calls in Africa’s largest nation for President Omar al-Bashir to skip the summit in …

ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has suggested that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir could be lawfully seized in international air space on his way to the Arab League Summit in Qatar.
The BBC reports:
Mr Moreno-Ocampo said that entering international airspace would be enough, since UN Security Council resolution 1583 [sic-- the correct resolution number is 1593] urges all UN members to co-operate with …

In case you missed this– Reuters reported:
Yemen freed Osama bin Laden’s former driver last week after he served out his prison term following his return in November from the American prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, his lawyer said Sunday.
“Salim Hamdan was released on Thursday to live with his family in Sana,” said the lawyer, Khaled al-Ansi. He said Mr. …