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...Last week, he appointed José Antonio Ocampo, a respected economist, as his finance minister. Ocampo has served in the role before and had a distinguished career at the central bank and the UN....
...In a hint that such a policy could be repeated, Cuba’s foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez said Washington risked “incitement of irregular and disorderly migratory flows”....
...During Ocampo’s nine years as chief prosecutor, nearly all its cases involved Africans....
...In early 2004, Rodriguez was instead scooped up by the Red Sox’s arch-rival the New York Yankees, who could afford the balance on his 10-year $252m contract....
...“US courts would have to recognise those appointees,” Mr Rodríguez said....
...With bassist Omar Rodriguez Calvo playing a holding role, drummer Jamie Peet was free to embellish the pianist’s trains of thought with a chattering dialogue of hi-hat figures, snare drum rolls and bass...
...This has been the case notably in Sudan, where Mr Ocampo chose to indict a sitting president, Omar al-Bashir, at a time he was an important factor in negotiations to end two wars....
...Nives Rodriguez, 27 Rodriguez, originally from Puerto Rico, was a car fanatic, according to local media....
...Francisco Rodríguez, the Venezuelan chief economist at Torino Capital, the US investment bank, says: “We do not see this role as unprecedented, nor do we believe it signals a change in terms of the relative...
...In 2008, he began to push aggressively for an arrest warrant against President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, for war crimes during the Darfur conflict....
...Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Argentine lawyer who was the first prosecutor at the ICC, has been criticised in the past for his push to prosecute heads of state....
...Following the end of his wild prog outfit The Mars Volta, Omar Rodríguez-López teams up with the Mexican punk rocker Teri Gender Bender in a new band....
...“Leaders must understand that violence is no longer an option to retain or gain power,” Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the ICC’s chief prosecutor, said in a statement....
...Luis Moreno-Ocampo, ICC prosecutor, has discretionary powers to open investigations, but only if the country in question is a signatory to the treaty that set up the court – which Syria is not....
...Meanwhile Omar al-Bashir remains Sudan’s president, flouting his indictment in July 2008 for genocide and war crimes during the Darfur conflict....
...In 2009 the ICC indicted Omar al-Bashir, president of Sudan, for allegedly directing massacres and ethnic cleansing in Darfur, but the Sudanese government has refused to co-operate with the court....
...It indicted Omar al-Bashir, president of Sudan, last year for his role in massacres and ethnic cleansing in Darfur but the Sudanese government has refused to deliver Mr al-Bashir to the court....
...Senior western and African officials said France and the US had agreed at an African Union summit to consider backing a deferral of the International Criminal Court’s indictment of Omar al-Bashir on war...
...Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, may have diverted as much as $9bn abroad, possibly to an account in London, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has told US diplomats at the UN....
...Mr Moreno-Ocampo’s office has already said it would appeal against last week’s ruling halting the trial....
...The International Criminal Court on Monday charged Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s president, with three counts of genocide related to the war in Darfur....
...The difficulties in prosecuting Mr Lubanga appear to bode ill for the likelihood of trying the ICC’s more high-profile targets, notably Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan....
...Watched closely by US officials, Beijing moves its focus from President Omar al-Bashir in Khartoum towards the leaders of the south, engaged at the time in a battle for independence....
...Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s president, said the International Criminal Court could “eat” any arrest warrant it was about to issue for him as he struck a defiant tone ahead of Wednesday’s announcement on charges...
...If Omar al-Bashir is still Sudan’s president in June, he will have survived 20 turbulent years as the head of one of Africa’s most brutal and destructive regimes....
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