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A militant leader was Saturday handed over to the International Criminal Court on charges of destroying much of Mali's fabled city of Timbuktu, in the first such case before the war crimes court, officials said.
Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi was detained under an arrest warrant issued by the ICC last week and handed over by the authorities in Niger, the court said in a statement.
He arrived before dawn Saturday in The Netherlands, where the ICC is based, to face charges in what is the first such case to be brought by the court for the destruction of religious buildings and historical monuments.
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