27 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Friday, April 27, 2012
27.04.12
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- ECOWAS will dispatch troops to both Mali and Guinea-Bissau in order to swiftly reinstate civilian rule after recent coups.
- In a Reuters exclusive, the US Senate, after a three-year investigation, is expected to find that the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used failed to yield counterterrorism breakthroughs.
- As a result of ongoing clashes between Sudan and South Sudan, the United States has circulated a draft resolution through the UN Security Council outlining sanctions if the two nations do not cease their strikes and resolve their many disputes.
- The US will move 9000 marines from Okinawa to a base in Guam and other bases in Asia-Pacific to ease the burden on local residents, many of whom oppose the military presence on their island.
- The World Bank is looking positively at relations with Myanmar, though the institution states that controlling debt and providing accurate economic data will be key to “moving [the] relationship forward.”
- Human Rights Watch criticized the US’ expansion of its drone strategy in Yemen.
- AP outlines another instance of an Afghan special forces soldier shooting an American ally in Afghanistan, the latest in a series of these attacks.
- As the Philippines has not accepted the ICJ’s jurisdiction over territorial issues, it would have to remove its reservation before it could bring a case regarding the ongoing dispute with China case regarding the ongoing dispute with China on the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
- Former ICJ Judge Al-Khasawneh has resigned as Jordanian Prime Minister merely six months into the job in a move that may increase pressure on the King for further reforms. It is unclear whether he’ll return to the ICJ; a successor had not yet been elected.
- In Syria, the government and rebels are trading blame over a huge explosion that killed 16.
- Foreign Policy has a piece outlining whether Americans “still hate the United Nations” and an op-ed about how Germany is the only nation that can save the Euro.
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