WASHINGTON: The United States announced today it had signed a deal with East Timor that gives US troops in the world's newest nation immunity from prosecution by the International Criminal Court. Under the so-called "Article 98" agreement inked by US and East Timorese officials in Dili on Friday, East Timor pledged not to extradite any US soldier for prosecution to The Hague-based court that Washington virulently opposes, the US State department said. The deal is the third that the United States has concluded since it began an international campaign to sign such agreements after the court came into being on...