Arab League criticizes ICC for Bashir warrant

Arab League slammed the ICC's "unbalanced" prosecutor and called for Sudan's courts to judge the case The Arab League criticized the International Criminal Court's prosecutor Saturday for seeking the arrest of Sudan's president on genocide charges, saying diplomacy should be given a priority to solve the conflict in Darfur. Arab foreign ministers, holding an emergency meeting in Cairo, said Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa would head to Khartoum on Sunday to inform the Sudanese leadership of a plan to defuse the crisis. Moussa said he would announce the details within two days. The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has asked the court for a warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on suspicion of masterminding crimes against humanity in his country's troubled Darfur... [read full story]