Crimes seen: The ICC chases Israel and Hamas
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The Economist
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🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court has caused outrage by requesting arrest warrants for both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Hamas’s leaders. China’s young people, on the lookout for safe ways to invest modest sums, have settled on collecting little gold beans (13:20). And Hawaii may soon have the first official state gesture (17:04).
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| 0:48.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:53.0 | Gold, it's the safe haven asset of the ages. |
| 1:00.0 | What changes is the physical form it takes? |
| 1:03.0 | Nuggets? Necklaces? |
| 1:05.0 | Nope. The hot trend in China right now is tiny little beans of it. |
| 1:10.0 | And if I told you to hang loose, would it conjure in your mind a gesture, thumb and pinky finger |
| 1:17.8 | extended, other fingers folded down? |
| 1:21.0 | That shaka is extremely widely used in Hawaii, so much so it might just become the first |
| 1:27.2 | official state gesture. But first. |
| 1:39.0 | The International Criminal Court has weighed in on the war in Gaza. |
| 1:46.0 | Yesterday, Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan announced he had requested some significant arrest warrants. |
| 1:52.0 | On the basis of evidence collected and examined and analyzed by my office, |
| 1:58.0 | I have reasonable grounds to believe that three senior leaders of Hamas, |
| 2:04.6 | Yayasinwa, Mohammed Dayif, and Ishmael Hania |
| 2:10.7 | bear criminal responsibility for the following. |
| 2:13.8 | He proceeded to lay out a litany of charges, both war crimes and crimes against humanity. |
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