29 May Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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- The current ICC Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has been nominated by FIFA to head an ethics investigation into the organization’s match-fixing and corruption issues.
- Charles Taylor will be sentenced tomorrow in The Hague. You can watch the sentencing live with links provided on the Court’s website.
- Also in The Hague tomorrow, the ICC will release the judgment on the Prosecution’s appeal in the Mbarushimana case.
- As our own Deborah Pearlstein pointed out, the New York Times has an article detailing President Obama’s counterterrorism and targeting strategy in the war on terror.
- Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are investigating allegations that Rwanda is recruiting and training fighters in a new armed movement.
- Sudan has pledged to remove all its troops from the contested Abeyi region ahead of new peace talks scheduled for today.
- A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal has indicted the chief of the country’s largest Islamic party for human rights violations in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.
- China has hit back on the US human rights record calling it “woeful” one day after US condemned a worsening human rights situation in China.
- The Hill reports that the US is wading deeper in its counterterrorism fight in Yemen and East Africa with a congressionally approved $75 million cash influx to support troops in the region.
- A judge in the UK has denied bail for Abu Qatada, stating that it would be highly problematic during the London Olympics were Abu Qatada able to freely roam the streets.
- Earth Negotiations Bulletin has a summary and analysis of the latest round of climate change talks in Bonn.
- Reuters reports that Syrian President Assad is meeting with UN envoy Kofi Annan who is attempting to salvage his peace plan.
- The Washington Post describes the situation in Egypt where revolutionaries have attacked the headquarters of one of the two candidates in the runoff for the presidential elections in which the former PM of the Mubarak regime will face the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate.
- Iran has warned Western powers that the sanctions imposed on it jeopardize the chance of an agreement, says Reuters.
- A NATO air strike has killed a senior al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan over the weekend.
- India has signed 12 bilateral deals with Myanmar in an effort to catch up with its rival China and to reduce its dependency on Iranian crude. One deal includes a $500 million line of credit to Myanmar to help fund infrastructure projects.
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