(Guardian-UK) Afua Hirsch and Ian Black - Britain's attorney general will be asked to approve warrants before suspected war criminals can be arrested in the future under a plan being negotiated by the Foreign Office in response to the row over attempts to arrest Israel's former foreign minister. Discussions have begun on creating "safeguards" in criminal cases against visiting foreign leaders - not just those from Israel. "No one is talking about removing universal jurisdiction, but it's an anomaly that a magistrates court can issue an arrest warrant before a prosecutor has even said there is a case to prosecute. There need to be safeguards," said a senior Foreign Office source.
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