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South Africa says Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend an economic summit in Johannesburg next month. The decision means South Africa won't have to face the dilemma of whether it should act on an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for the Russian leader. As a signatory to the treaty that created the ICC, South Africa would have been obliged to arrest Putin. The country's president and other officials had indicated the government would likely not carry out the warrant. But the office of President Cyril Ramaphosa said Wednesday that Russia and South Africa reached a “mutual agreement” that Putin wouldn't attend the August gathering involving a bloc of developing economies known as BRICS