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South Africa’s president says that arresting Russian President Vladimir Putin — should he show up at an economic summit next month in Johannesburg — would amount to a “declaration of war” by his country JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa's president said Tuesday that arresting Russian President Vladimir Putin — should he show up at an economic summit next month in Johannesburg — would amount to a “declaration of war” by his country. The August summit is bringing together Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — a bloc of developing economies known as BRICS. Officials have said that Putin wants to attend the gathering but have been trying to persuade him to stay away to avoid the legal and diplomatic fallout over his international arrest warrant. Putin is the subject of a warrant of arrest by the International Criminal Court related to alleged war crimes during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As a signatory to the Rome Statute that established the ICC, South Africa would be obligated...

Ron and Cindy Ecklund were enjoying a Saturday afternoon in their backyard when their dog, a chocolate Labrador mix named Tucker, began barking. Ron and Cindy Ecklund were enjoying a Saturday afternoon in their backyard when their dog, a chocolate Labrador mix named Tucker, began barking. “Usually if I call him he comes right back to the house,” Ron Ecklund described to ABC News. “He wouldn't, so I said, ‘Cindy, let's get on the golf cart.’” Ron and Cindy Ecklund, owners of Tucker, the dog who helped capture an escaped prisoner and murder suspect, near Warren, Pa. WJET Off they went into their backyard, expecting to find a fisherman or a hiker near the creek on their property. Instead, the couple came face-to-face with Michael Burham, who had escaped from a local prison over a week ago. “Suddenly, this person stands up, and it's Michael – I recognize him right away,” Ron Ecklund said, recognizing Burham’s tattoos, which had been featured in recent news reports. MORE: Es...

South Africa's deputy president says Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to attend an economic summit in South Africa next month but the country is trying to persuade him to stay away to avoid the legal and diplomatic fallout over his international ... CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to attend an economic summit in South Africa next month and the country is desperately trying to persuade him to stay away to avoid the legal and diplomatic fallout over his international arrest warrant, South Africa's deputy president said in an interview with a news website on Friday. As a signatory to the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court, South Africa is obliged to arrest Putin on an indictment the court issued against the Russian leader in March for war crimes involving the abduction of children from Ukraine. Moscow has dismissed the warrant. South African authorities are likely to breach the treaty and not arrest Putin, but some opposit...

The state attorney requested Susan Lorincz be held with no bond. A Florida woman appeared at her first court hearing after she was arrest ed in the shooting death of her neighbor , a mother of four, after an alleged dispute with the neighbor 's children. Susan Lorincz, 58, appeared in court via video from the Marion County Jail where she is currently being housed, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office (MCSO). The state attorney requested that Lorincz be held with no bond and said that the state would file a motion for pretrial detention. Judge Lori Cotton said she will hold off on the bond hearing until the state files a motion for pretrial detention, which will be scheduled within five days. Cotton said Lorincz's next court date will be on July 11. "The fact that she has no job, no property kind of limits her ties to this community," the state attorney said of Lorincz. "So we ask that, at least for the time being, she remain on a no-bond stat...

A shooting in Indiana that injured two people after a three -year- old accessed a gun led to the arrest of a man wanted for murder in Illinois, authorities said. A shooting in Indiana that injured two people after a three -year- old accessed a gun led to the arrest of a man wanted for murder in Illinois, authorities said. Trayshaun Smith, 23, was arrested on Thursday after he visited a hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, according to Lt. Justin Hartman of the Lafayette Police Department. Investigators eventually determined that the shooting that sent Smith and another victim to the hospital occurred when a three-year-old was able to access a gun and fire a single round. MORE: Dad arrested after 4-year-old boy captured playing with gun alone: Police "It was determined that a three year old child at that location accessed a gun and fired one round striking two people," according to Hartman. The police department said officers initially found both shootin...