U.S. places sanctions on four ICC officials, including Canadian jurist

The International Criminal Court building in The Hague, the Netherlands, in 2019. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called the court a 'national security threat.'

The United States has issued new sanctions against senior officials with the International Criminal Court, including against a Canadian jurist, threatening to increase friction between Ottawa and Washington as trade talks continue.

The U.S. sanctioned two of the court’s deputy prosecutors as well as two judges, a French jurist and Kimberly Prost, a University of Manitoba graduate who spent nearly two decades with Justice Canada before moving overseas.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the court “a national security threat that has been an instrument for lawfare against the United States and our close ally Israel