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UN experts have warned that US sanctions over Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest warrant would erode international order.

Legislation that would have imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court in protest of its arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister was blocked in the U.

That has left the controversial court without a single trial ahead for the first time since it arrested its first suspect in 2006, four years after it was established. Though its docket remains empty,