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Facing US sanctions over its investigations, the International Criminal Court (ICC) received two high-profile gestures of EU support this week. First, the European Parliament awarded it its human rights prize on Thursday, then EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas visited its headquarters in The Hague on Friday.

Jenny Singer-Rupp, a Boulder County, Colo., resident who lost her home in the 2021 Marshall Fire, stood in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Oct. 5, surrounded by environmental advocates and fellow Coloradans.

EU governments cannot automatically put asylum applications on hold because applicants already have temporary protection, the Court of Justice ruled on Thursday. The judgment limits the use of the emergency scheme for people fleeing Ukraine as grounds to postpone examining their individual claims.

Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia are the only EU countries that have not committed to joining a tribunal for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath named them on Friday, while outlining what still stands between European pledges and a working court: unresolved costs and security arrangements. 

The Ecowas Court is a west African regional body located in Abuja, Nigeria, serving the now 12-nation Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas). The court, originally set up to handle economic matters related to the Ecowas Treaty, was given a human rights mandate in 2005. Since then, of the hundreds of cases the court…