"South Africa's Dilemma: Hosting Putin at August Summit"

South Africa is trying to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin not to attend an economic summit in the country next month to avoid the legal and diplomatic fallout over his international arrest warrant for war crimes. As a signatory to the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court, South Africa is obliged to arrest Putin, but some opposition parties and rights groups have threatened to do it themselves. Allowing Putin to attend the summit would strain South Africa's relations with the West, including the US.