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The International Criminal Court has forcefully rejected fresh US sanctions against its president and a senior prosecutor's office lawyer, characterising the moves as an assault on judicial independence and the international legal order.
The United States has sanctioned eight Chinese and Hong Kong-based shipping firms for operating vessels that moved Iranian oil to China, part of a broader economic campaign against Tehran. Beijing rejected the allegations, defending its commercial ties with Iran.
Cuba's president has lambasted the latest American sanctions as a revival of McCarthyism, claiming Washington is orchestrating a global campaign against progressive movements while the island nation battles its worst economic crisis in decades.