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Brazil's Lula Undergoes 2nd Procedure to Stop Brain Bleed

Dr Roberto Kalil (L) speaks next to Dr Ana Helena Germoglio (C) and Dr Marcos Stavale during a press conference at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital where Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is hospitalized in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 12, 2024. (Photo by Nelson ALMEIDA / AFP)
Dr Roberto Kalil (L) speaks next to Dr Ana Helena Germoglio (C) and Dr Marcos Stavale during a press conference at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital where Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is hospitalized in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 12, 2024. (Photo by Nelson ALMEIDA / AFP)
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Brazil's Lula Undergoes 2nd Procedure to Stop Brain Bleed

Dr Roberto Kalil (L) speaks next to Dr Ana Helena Germoglio (C) and Dr Marcos Stavale during a press conference at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital where Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is hospitalized in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 12, 2024. (Photo by Nelson ALMEIDA / AFP)
Dr Roberto Kalil (L) speaks next to Dr Ana Helena Germoglio (C) and Dr Marcos Stavale during a press conference at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital where Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is hospitalized in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 12, 2024. (Photo by Nelson ALMEIDA / AFP)

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had a second procedure on Thursday morning to stop a brain bleed, his doctors said.
Lula, 79, first had surgery at the hospital on Tuesday for a kind of slow bleeding that resulted from a fall at home in October. Thursday's procedure was to plug an artery that continued to leak blood onto the surface of the brain, according to his doctors at the Sirio-Libanes hospital, The Associated Press reported.
The president is awake and fine, they said, and is expected to leave the hospital and return to Brasilia at the beginning of next week when he will be able to slowly resume his activities.
Marcos Stavale, one of the doctors on the medical team, said Thursday's procedure was low risk. “He’s neurologically perfect. He’s fine, he’s talking,” Stavale said of Lula.
“He didn’t have any brain damage,” said Dr. Roberto Kalil, who has been monitoring the president’s health for years.
After the accident, his office said Lula canceled a trip to Russia for a summit of the so-called BRIC alliance of nations.
It left him with a visible cut on the back of his head, slightly above his neck.

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International Criminal Court Refers Hungary to Its Oversight Body for Failing to Arrest Netanyahu 

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shake hands after a press statement at the Carmelite Monastery in the Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary, April 3, 2025. (AP) 
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shake hands after a press statement at the Carmelite Monastery in the Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary, April 3, 2025. (AP) 
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International Criminal Court Refers Hungary to Its Oversight Body for Failing to Arrest Netanyahu 

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shake hands after a press statement at the Carmelite Monastery in the Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary, April 3, 2025. (AP) 
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shake hands after a press statement at the Carmelite Monastery in the Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary, April 3, 2025. (AP) 

A panel of judges at the International Criminal Court reported Hungary to the court’s oversight organization for failing to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visited Budapest in April, saying the move undercut the court's ability to bring suspects to justice.

The Israeli leader received a red carpet welcome from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during a state visit, in defiance of an ICC arrest warrant. Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant are accused of crimes against humanity in connection with the war in Gaza.

Israel is not a member of the court and staunchly rejects the charges.

In a filing released late Thursday, the three-judge panel wrote that “the obligation to cooperate was sufficiently clear to Hungary” and the failure to arrest Netanyahu “severely undermines the Court’s ability to carry out its mandate.”

The ICC has no police force and relies on countries around the world to execute arrest warrants.

The court's oversight body, the Assembly of States Parties has limited powers to sanction Hungary. It will consider the next steps during its annual meeting in December.

The Hungarian leader, regarded by critics as an autocrat and the EU’s most intransigent spoiler in the bloc’s decision-making, has defended his decision to not arrest Netanyahu. During the visit, Orbán said his country’s commitment to the ICC was “ half-hearted ” and began the process to withdraw Hungary from the court.

Orbán signed the Rome Statute, the treaty which created the court, in 2001 during his first term as prime minister.

The court dismissed arguments from Hungary that Parliament never incorporated the court’s statute into Hungarian law, writing “it was Hungary’s responsibility to ensure that such legislation was in place.”

The decision comes as Gaza’s population of more than 2 million Palestinians is in a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, now relying largely on the limited aid allowed into the territory.

Netanyahu and Gallant are accused of using “starvation as a method of warfare” by restricting humanitarian aid, and of intentionally targeting civilians in Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza.