20 Mar Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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- Amnesty International says that NATO failed in its obligation to investigate or provide compensation for deaths in Lybia during its seven-month operation last year.
- A court in Zimbabwe convicted six activists of trying to unseat Robert Mugabe through Arab Spring-like protests. The convicted men face up to 10 years in prison.
- India may follow China’s example and ask its airlines not to participate in the EU carbon scheme.
- New calls for the end of US drone strikes came from a Pakistani parliamentary committee, the latest in a string of measures since a November 26th attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. In other drone news, Jack Goldsmith opines at Foreign Policy about the legality of the use of drones in the conflict with al-Qaeda.
- ICRC President Jacob Kellenberger met yesterday with Russian foreign affairs minister, Sergei Lavrov to discuss the humanitarian situation in Syria. Bloomberg covers the meeting here.
- Peru cancelled a British Royal Navy visit out of solidarity with Argentina in its dispute with the UK over the Faulkland Islands.
- Convicted Khmer Rouge jailer Duch testifies against his former bosses in Cambodia. This comes one day after Swiss judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet resigned from the bench of the ECCC citing interference. Jurist has more on the resignation here.
- In a re-trial, a military court in Egypt has acquitted eight, among others Ayman al-Zawarihi’s brother, on terrorism charges.
- The suspect in the March 11th Afghan massacre of 16 civilians claims he doesn’t remember the incident.
- China and North Korea met for the second time to discuss North Korea’s impending rocket launch and the UN confirms that the IAEA has been invited to North Korea for the first time in three years.
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