12 Jun Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, June 12, 2012
12.06.12
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- The four staff members of the ICC will remain in a 45-day detention in Libya while investigations into the meetings the staff had with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi are carried out. Al Arabyia reports that Melinda Taylor will be freed if she gives Libyan officials information on the whereabouts of Mohammed Ismail, Gaddafi’s former right-hand man.
- Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has asked for his charges to be dismissed at the ICTY for lack of evidence.
- Human Rights Watch reports that Syria is committing grave abuses of children in the on-going conflict, saying that the recent UN Secretary General’s warning of escalating violence should prompt Security Council sanctions.
- According to EU officials, Iran has agreed to continue nuclear talks at a summit in Moscow next week.
- China remains the target of US sanctions against Iranian oil as all other major importers were exempted.
- Former head of the IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn has appealed the rejection of immunity decision a judge handed down last month.
- Researchers have found a link between the software used to create the Stuxnet and Flame viruses; the former was ordered to target Iran’s nuclear program last week by President Obama.
- NPR posts an op-ed about the troubling hypocrisy in the US’ recent leaks about its targeted killings and cyber warfare programs while prosecuting more government officials under the Espionage Act of 1917 than all previous administrations combined.
- Inter Press Service reports that the US has halted talks with Pakistan on NATO supply lines.
- North Korea has denied any plans for a third nuclear test.
- Thousands are reportedly showing up in Moscow for the first mass protests against Putin since his inauguration as President.
- Japan may file a WTO complaint against Indonesia’s export restrictions on nickel ore.
- Next month’s African Union summit has been moved from Malawi to Ethiopia after the former tried to stop Sudan’s President Bashir from attending out of fear that it would lose Western aid to its economy if it does not surrender Bashir to the International Criminal Court.
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