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The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges.

US Vice President JD Vance said in an exclusive interview with Reuters that Iran must make a “meaningful” reduction ​in its nuclear enrichment capacity to satisfy US demands and end the countries’ seven-month war, even as Washington was unsure how Tehran makes decisions in negotiations.

The ‌Trump administration is refusing to work with the newly appointed deputy head of the United Nations refugee agency, exposing tensions between the agency and one of its top donors at a time of acute funding pressures, diplomats said.

The Trump administration ​has started the process to transfer $725 million to the United Nations, a congressional notification seen by Reuters showed, a move aid experts said ‌was a welcome step towards paying billions in dues owed.

A Russia sanctions bill championed by the late Senator Lindsey Graham faces a tough road in Congress.

The whereabouts of Mojtaba Khamenei have been a mystery to Iranians and the rest of the world alike since his appointment as supreme leader a week after the strike that killed his father at the end of February.

Control over the Strait of Hormuz has become a "golden weapon" to Iran, for which it is willing to risk new escalations with the United States, and is a bigger ​priority than a nuclear programme for which it accepted decades of sanctions.

Australia's online platforms are stumbling at the very first step in implementing age checks for users, rendering a world-first teen social media ban ineffective, a ​study by a team that advised the government's rollout of the curbs found.

Diplomats running the International Criminal Court's oversight body have decided that prosecutor Karim Khan had an inappropriate ​sexual relationship with a junior staff member and should be fired, two copies of its decision showed.

White House officials have for months delayed the release of a U.S. government report that outlines what it describes as significant vulnerabilities in the ​nation's voting machines ahead of the November midterms.

Russia has intensified covert efforts to undermine the leader of Armenia’s bid for re-election next month, fearing his victory could lock in the former Soviet republic’s realignment with the West, according to Western intelligence and ​government officials.

The Trump administration is planning ​to tell NATO allies this week that it will shrink the pool of military capabilities that the U.S. would have available ‌to assist the alliance's European nations in a major crisis, three sources familiar with the matter said.