WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - Three International Criminal Court judges on Wednesday sued U.S. ​President Donald Trump and his administration over sanctions imposed on them last year, arguing the measures were unlawful.

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• A second worker died on June 18 at the construction site of BYD's electric vehicle factory in Szeged, Hungary.
• The death comes after BYD has denied previous allegations of labor abuses at the site.
• Full production at the site is expected in the third quarter of 2026.

A second worker has died at the construction site of BYD's electric vehicle factory in Szeged, Hungary.

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The fatality — which follows a death at the site in February — comes after BYD executive vice president Stella Li earlier this month denied allegations of labor abuse at the site.

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The Shenzhen-based BYD did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the latest fatality.

This worker died on June 18 after resuscitation attempts by paramedics failed, Hungary's National Ambulance Service told CNBC on Monday, adding that several emergency units, including a rescue helicopter, had been dispatched to the scene of the incident.

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AIM Construction Hungary Ltd. — a subsidiary of the construction company linked to a 2024 labor scandal at BYD's EV factory in Brazil — was fined 34,500,000 forints ($110,350) over occupational security issues, the Csongrád-Csanád County Government Office said in response to CNBC's request for comment on the second worker death.

AIM Construction was also warned over a suite of other violations, including late employee registration, violations of working time framework regulations, and "formal defects" in employment contracts, the county government office added.

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Iran’s IRGC warns that any new Hormuz shipping route announced without Tehran’s coordination is unacceptable and dangerous.

All vessels must contact IRGC Navy on the designated channel before transiting, or face enforcement action, Iran says.

Shipping traffic has remained far below prewar levels despite the U.S.-Iran interim agreement.

At least 164 people have died and 971 were injured after a pair of powerful quakes rocked Venezuela, Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Thursday.

The acting president had said earlier that at least 32 people have died after Wednesday evening’s 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes, and that the toll was expected to rise.

The quakes were among the strongest to strike Venezuela in more than a century and could be felt throughout the region. Buildings were evacuated in places as far away as Brazil’s Amazon, about 1,700 kilometers (1,050 miles) from Venezuela’s capital, Caracas.

The Microsoft founder Bill Gates told US members of Congress that the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had sought to “blackmail” him over his extramarital affairs, according to a transcript of the testimony.

The tech pioneer testified behind closed doors before the House oversight committee on 10 June regarding his friendship with Epstein, who died in prison in 2019 as he awaited trial for sex crimes.

According to the transcript released by the committee on Tuesday, Gates spoke of “veiled” threats and said Epstein had considered exploiting his own knowledge of Gates’s extramarital affairs to force him to remain in Epstein’s orbit, even as Gates was distancing himself from Epstein.

“I was not blackmailed, but you know, as you look at these emails, you know, it looks like Mr Epstein’s brainstorming was going in that direction,” Gates added, referring to documents from the Epstein case released in January by the US Department of Justice.