07 May Weekday News Wrap: Monday, May 7, 2012
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- The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples concluded his report in the United States Friday, warning that historical wrongs-particularly the loss of lands-continue to have an impact on Native American communities and calling on the US to step up efforts to address injustices.
- Reports have surfaced of child soldiers in rebel ranks in Mali; Human Rights Watch has a report outlining child soldier use and rapes allegedly committed by forces.
- Human Rights Watch also outlines war crimes allegedly being committed in Syria, while the violence rages on despite the ceasefire agreement.
- The US has been secretly releasing prisoners from an Afghan military compound as part of negotiations with insurgent groups.
- Over the weekend, a NATO soldier was killed by an attacker wearing an Afghan army uniform; the attacker was also killed in return fire by coalition forces.
- US Vice President, Joe Biden, has said that Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng’s future is in the United States, stating he could get a US visa “right away.” Guangcheng, meanwhile, awaits his fate in a Beijing hospital, but remains optimistic that China will allow his trip.
- In EU news, Greek and French voters have handed a loss to German-led austerity measures at the polls this weekend. CNN analyses the implications for the US.
- Not so much of a leadership change in Russia, where Putin was sworn in again as President this morning, following violent protests on Sunday.
- Polls have opened in Syria, but are not expected to bring about change, as the Syrian Parliament is not very powerful and the elections are boycotted by the opposition.
- Two Belgians have been detained in Yemen on suspicion of planned terrorist activities and could be deported.
- A CIA air strike in Yemen has killed an Al-Qaeda leader wanted for his involvement in the attack on the USS Cole.
- According to the UN, Africa’s Sahel region faces a malnutrition crisis, calculating that up to one million children are at risk of dying of hunger amid drought and unrest.
- Bahrain has arrested a human rights activist and critic of the royal family; the charges up to this point are unclear.
- Peru’s government issued a health alert to tourists and residents along its northern beaches after hundreds of pelicans and dolphins have turned up on the shores dead.
- Sudan has accused South Sudan of having troops on its territory.
- On a visit in Calcutta, Hilary Clinton has asked India to do more about reducing its oil imports from Iran, which India sees as a strategic ally.
- As Kevin Jon Heller also noted, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged “Mastermind of 9/11,” and four other men have refused to enter a plea in their military commissions trial at Guantanamo Bay.
- Japan has shut down its last nuclear reactor.
- The EU is hosting talks in Brussels this week with around 30 other states, developed and developing, on how to breathe new life in the climate change negotiations.
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