Marco Rubio announced US sanctions on the International Criminal Court itself on Friday, hours after ex-ICC judge Navi Pillay won the Nobel. US companies and individuals doing business with the court have six months to wind it down, Fortune reported, so the court now has a deadline for replacing its American banks and software.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder 17%
- Operator
- Operator 51%
- Investor
- Investor 32%
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives60
- Confidence65
Document trail ties at least 47 Russian and Belarusian figures to Ukrainian child deportations
Researchers with the Where Are Our People? project have identified at least 47 Russian and Belarusian figures in the deportation of Ukrainian children. Only some of them face Western sanctions, while Ukraine counts 2,644 children returned against 20,651 verified deportations.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives55
- Confidence40
Russian drone strikes on shared Kyiv data centers cut at least four ISPs at once
Russian drones hitting Kyiv's shared exchange buildings took at least four ISPs down together and left about 100,000 households with internet problems. Providers that share a building fail as one, taking with them the phone alerts that warn residents of the next strike.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
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- Hype gap+30
- Incentives
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- Confidence50
Takaichi answers a 3.5%-of-GDP defence ask with Japan's $550bn investment list
Japan pledged the $550 billion in response to American tariff measures. Six months on it is what Takaichi brings to a summit whose agenda also includes the cost of US bases, with four of the five decided projects in oil and power.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption26
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives74
- Confidence45
Two sources told the South China Morning Post that sanctions on the whole court are prepared and imminent. Thirteen officials are already designated. The institutional version reaches anyone under US jurisdiction who banks the court.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption42
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives55
- Confidence52
Pulumi panelists disagree on how big the cloud sovereignty risk is, as one says stable workloads should stay put
A Pulumi panel recorded on 3 September collects ten questions about US legal reach, EU regions and self-held keys, and the two answers it publishes are about migration economics and the price of staying portable.
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Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+16
- Incentives72
- Confidence52