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Trump administration wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court. Can it?

July 15, 2026 (Conversation) On Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote a blistering missive in the Wall Street Journal unveiling plans to dismantle the International Criminal Court (ICC). He claimed it threatened “US soldiers, police officers, Border Patrol agents and elected leaders” under international laws that “we neither consent to nor control”. The State Department then unveiled the steps it would take to target the court, which include pressuring allies to resist ICC attempts to prosecute Americans, travel bans on ICC officials, and increased sanctions on the court. The State Department called the court an “intolerable threat to

Files relating to India’s largest nuclear power plant Kudankulam exposed in data breach

BENGALURU, July 15 (Reuters) – Ransomware group World Leaks has posted on the dark web a huge cache of files related to India’s largest nuclear plant, including purported blueprints of parts of its facilities and supplier details — information it ​labelled as coming from Reliance Group. The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, located in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, is the largest of India’s seven nuclear plants and central to Prime Minister ‌Narendra Modi’s ambitious plans to expand the country’s atomic energy capacity. Indian businessman Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group, one of the plant’s contractors, told Reuters in a statement that

Gold trades flat at Rs 1.46 lakh/10g; silver slips Rs 100

New Delhi, Jul 15 (PTI) Gold prices remained flat at Rs 1.46 lakh per 10 grams in the national capital on Wednesday, while silver slipped for the third straight session, weighed down by subdued local demand. The yellow metal of 99.9 per cent purity was unchanged from the previous day’s rate at Rs 1,46,300 per 10 grams (inclusive of all taxes), according to the All India Sarafa Association. However, silver fell Rs 100 to Rs 2,26,000 per kilogram (inclusive of all taxes) from Tuesday’s closing level of Rs 2,26,100 per kg. Traders said muted buying by jewellers and industrial users

Markets end higher led by bank stocks; escalating US-Iran hostilities weigh on investor sentiment

A screen displays an image of U.S. President Donald Trump at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai, India. (Photo: Reuters

Mumbai, Jul 15 (PTI) Market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended higher on Wednesday, bouncing back from previous session’s sharp decline, led by bank stocks and a softer-than-expected US inflation data reinforcing expectations that the Federal Reserve may adopt a less aggressive monetary policy stance in the coming months. Escalating hostilities between the US and Iran, however, kept investors’ sentiment subdued in the later half of the trade, triggering profit-taking. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 130.49 points, or 0.17 per cent, to settle at 77,185.43. During the day, it jumped 591.33 points, or 0.76 per cent, to 77,646.27. The 50-share

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