at loggerheads

But there was a warning, from China – admittedly not a signatory to the ICC and currently at loggerheads with the Philippines – not to politicise ICC cases.

Now the prime minister confronts a situation where two of the UK's allies are at loggerheads in the most public and angry way.

With Beijing and Moscow at loggerheads, they had sensed an opportunity to draw away a Soviet ally.

The two neighbours have been at loggerheads since January when Ethiopia signed a maritime deal with Somaliland - which Somalia considers as part of its territory.

These two communities were at loggerheads after elections in 2007 - ethnic violence in which 1,200 people died nationwide.