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Morning Brief | U.S. National Security Advisor Takes Aim at the International Criminal Court

Top news: In a speech to a conservative think tank, U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton said that the United States would not cooperate with the International Criminal Court and would ban ICC judges and prosecutors from entering the country, adding that the court was “already dead to us.” The United States, alongside Russia and China, has never joined the ICC, which is now looking to formally open an investigation into allegations of human rights abuses committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan since May 2003.

Russia: Russia mobilized about 300,000 troops for war games in eastern Siberia, the largest since 1981. The program will include 1,000 military aircraft and 36,000 tanks and armored vehicles. China sent a contingent of 3,200 troops to participate in the week-long Vostok-2018 exercise. The war games are concurrent with a bilateral meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Vladivostok.

AFRICA

•  Zimbabwe declared a cholera emergency after an outbreak in its capital, Harare, killed 20 people. The outbreak is linked to contaminated water, a problem exacerbated by state failure to offer access to reliable water and sanitation in many parts of the city.

•  In Sudan, Interpol rescued 94 people, most of whom children, trafficked from Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Niger, Sudan and South Sudan.

•  Tanzanian President John Magufuli drew criticism after he urged women to stop taking birth control and have more children.

AMERICAS

•  More than 1.5 million Americans have been evacuated from their homes as Hurricane Florence moves toward the East Coast of the United States.

•  In Brazil, far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro will undergo major surgery, and remains in intensive care after he was stabbed in the abdomen at a rally on Thursday.

•  As the United States marks 17 years since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of New Yorkers who were exposed to debris and toxic chemicals in the aftermath are still being diagnosed with serious illnesses.

ASIA

•  The United States is considering sanctions against Chinese businesses and officials in retaliation for the mass detention of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in western China.

•  Four Taliban attacks killed dozens of Afghan police officers and soldiers in the second day of serious violence in northern Afghanistan.

•  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly sent U.S. President Donald Trump a letter requesting a second meeting as the two countries attempt to move toward denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.

EUROPE

•  Members of the European Parliament are set to vote on whether to activate disciplinary proceedings against Hungary that could suspend the country’s European Union voting rights.

•  The government of Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory, has accepted $559 million in funding from Denmark to upgrade its airport. The controversial decision resulted in a pro-independence party leaving Greenland’s governing coalition the day before the deal, ending its parliamentary majority.

•  A year after a controversial referendum on the question of Catalan independence from Spain, hundreds of thousands of separatists are gathering on the streets of Barcelona on Tuesday.

MIDDLE EAST

•  In compliance with U.S. sanctions, YouTube suspended Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s presidential account, alongside those of the Ministry of Defense and the national news agency, SANA.

•  The U.N. increased pressure on Iran to release Xiyue Wang, one of four Americans known to be detained in the country. The graduate student from Princeton University was detained while doing research for his doctoral dissertation in August 2016.

•  Saudi Arabia arrested an Egyptian man in Jeddah for eating breakfast with a woman, violating the country’s strict laws around gender and public interactions.

- By Jefcoate O'Donnell

(Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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