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Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, has been cleared of all wrongdoing by a panel of judges appointed to review the findings of a United Nations investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him, Middle East Eye can exclusively reveal.

The highly confidential report by the panel of three judges was submitted to the ICC’s executive oversight body, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), on 9 March. It will not be made publicly available, and has not been seen by the majority of the court's 125 member states.

Since December, the judges, who were appointed by the ASP, have been examining an external fact-finding report conducted by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) into the allegations against Khan, which have unfolded in parallel with his office's efforts to pursue a war crimes investigation against Israeli officials over the war in Gaza.

The role of the panel has been to provide independent legal advice to the bureau, based on the facts presented in the OIOS report, on whether Khan, who has strenuously denied all allegations, has committed serious misconduct, less serious misconduct, or no misconduct at all.

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After the fourth winter of the full-scale war, Ukraine’s energy system is emerging from one of the most difficult periods in its history.

From December 2025 to March 2026, Ukrainians endured 12 major attacks and hundreds of smaller ones that did not stop for a single day, involving more than 5,000 Shahed-type drones, around 150 ballistic missiles, and hundreds of cruise missiles. But Ukraine’s energy sector held out, and now Ukrainian homes have electricity almost 24/7.

How was this possible?

Russian strikes during the winter of 2025-26 were the heaviest of the entire war.

Russians combined strikes with missiles, drones and artillery. As a prelude to these attacks, they often utilized missiles of different types, from different directions simultaneously, in order to exhaust or bypass Ukraine’s air defense system and inflict critical damage specifically on Ukraine’s energy system. The Russian Ministry of Defense did not shy away from strikes on civilian objects and even created a special “counter” on its website showing the percentage of Ukrainian energy infrastructure hit.

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The counter-terrorism official who resigned from Donald Trump’s administration over the US and Israel’s war against Iran has said he is bracing for political retribution – but would do it all again anyway.

Asked by conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly if he was concerned about a pre-existing FBI search investigating him for leaking classified information, Joe Kent said he was ambivalent.

Kent said he was “not concerned because I know I did nothing wrong”. But, alluding to the way the Trump administration has sought to criminally prosecute people the president considers enemies, he added: “Of course, I am concerned because we’ve all seen the full weight of the FBI and the government come down on individuals who speak out.”

US counter-terrorism chief who resigned says he fears retaliation but has no regrets.

“That has me a little bit concerned,” he also told Kelly on her podcast on Friday. “But I know that the truth and the facts are on my side.

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Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb condemned President Donald Trump Saturday for celebrating the death of former special prosecutor and FBI Director Robert Mueller, calling the president a “demented narcissist.”

“So that’s the type of person that President Trump is,” Cobb said on MS Now. “He’s a demented narcissist, [he] seriously hates anybody who stands in opposition to him.”

Mueller died on Friday at the age of 81. His cause of death was not immediately known, but he had reportedly been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease prior to his passing.

“With deep sadness, we are sharing the news that Bob passed away” on Friday night, his family said in a Saturday statement to the Associated Press. “His family asks that their privacy be respected.”

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A jury on Friday found that Elon Musk misled Twitter’s shareholders by driving down Twitter’s stock price ahead of his $44 billion acquisition of the company in 2022.

The San Francisco jury were asked if two tweets and comments made by Musk on a podcast showed that he deliberately defrauded the shareholders and drove down Twitter’s stock price. They concluded that the tweets were false and misleading but did not hold him liable for the podcast comment.

The jury also dismissed the investors’ claim that Musk’s tweets and comments amounted to a scheme.

Four of the shareholders sued Musk in October 2022, claiming they suffered major losses as a result of Musk’s comments regarding spam bot accounts on Twitter, now the social platform X. The four shareholders’ lawyers said on Friday that Musk could now be forced to pay former shareholders around $2.5 billion, The New York Times reported.

“This is a great example of what you cannot do to the average investor –– people that have 401ks, kids, pension funds, teachers, firemen, nurses,” Joseph Cotchett, one of the investors’ attorneys, told CNBC. That’s what this case was all about. This was not about Musk. It was about the whole operation.”

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The Cuban government rejected a request from the U.S. Embassy in Havana to import diesel for its generators, as the island grapples with a fuel shortage due to a blockade imposed by the Trump administration earlier this year.

Citing diplomatic cables, The Washington Post reported the embassy warned the State Department on Wednesday that the denial could force nonessential staff to leave the Caribbean island in May or “possibly earlier.”

The embassy sought permission to import two containers of fuel from the U.S., per the Post.

The Ministry interprets as shameless the claim by the diplomatic mission to access a good as a privilege that it denies to the Cuban people,” the Cuban Foreign Ministry reportedly said in its refusal, according to a State Department translation.

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A building in the southern Israeli city of Dimona collapsed on Saturday after it was struck by falling interception debris from an earlier Iranian ballistic missile attack, Israel's Fire and Rescue Services confirmed, as emergency crews fanned out across at least 12 separate sites in the city to search for casualties.

Twenty people sustained light injuries across Dimona from the impact, according to preliminary reports. Israeli Channel 12 News reported that a cluster munition missile and a separate ballistic missile struck the area, though it remained unclear whether the building collapse resulted from a direct hit or from fragments of intercepted projectiles.

Fire and rescue teams were sweeping the affected zones as reports continued to develop, with the situation described as ongoing.

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Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI director who transformed the nation’s premier law enforcement agency into a terrorism-fighting force after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and who later became special counsel in charge of investigating ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has died. He was 81.

“With deep sadness, we are sharing the news that Bob passed away” on Friday night, his family said in a statement Saturday. “His family asks that their privacy be respected.”

At the FBI, Mueller set about almost immediately overhauling the bureau’s mission to meet the law enforcement needs of the 21st century, beginning his 12-year tenure just one week before the Sept. 11 attacks and serving across presidents of both political parties. He was nominated by Republican President George W. Bush.

The cataclysmic event instantaneously switched the bureau’s top priority from solving domestic crime to preventing terrorism, a shift that imposed an almost impossibly difficult standard on Mueller and the rest of the federal government: preventing 99 out of 100 terrorist plots wasn’t good enough.

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