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• ANC plans to withdraw South Africa from international criminal court

  11-10-2015 14:43
  
  Country was criticised after Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir visited in June and was allowed to leave despite court order to detain himSouth Africa plans to leave the international criminal court (ICC), a deputy minister has said, as the government faces criticism for ignoring a court order to arrest Sudan’s president when he visited the country earlier this year.Obed Bapela said the ICC had “lost its direction” and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) wanted to withdra
  
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• Spies and internet giants are in the same business: surveillance. But we can stop them | John Naughton

  11-10-2015 10:15
  
  The European court of justice ruling on ‘safe harbour’ at last enables us to start a conversation about proper control of personal data gathered by the likes of Facebook and GoogleOn Tuesday, the European court of justice, Europe’s supreme court, lobbed a grenade into the cosy, quasi-monopolistic world of the giant American internet companies.It did so by declaring invalid a decision made by the European commission in 2000 that US companies complying with its “safe harbou
  
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