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World Service,25 Jul 2026,54 mins

ICC top prosecutor removed over sexual misconduct allegations

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Member-states of the International Criminal Court have voted to remove its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. The fifty-six year old British lawyer is accused of sexual misconduct towards a junior female colleague -- an allegation he denies. Also in the programme: residents in the suburbs of Bordeaux in south-west France have been told to evacuate as a huge wildfire approaches the city; and the World Music Festival takes place amid tough financial conditions for the industry. Joining Julian Worricker on the programme's panel are Ava Glass, spy fiction writer based in the UK, and David Robert Grimes, assistant professor of biostatistics at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. (File photo: Prosecutor Karim Khan speaking during an interview in the Hague, Netherlands, on January 16, 2025. Credit: REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw)

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