13 Jun Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
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- The US is accusing Russia of sending helicopters to Syria, where the UN has now officially categorized the conflict as a civil war.
- The UN is sending its envoy to Western Myanmar where the state of emergency was declared following unrest.
- Aung San Suu Kyi has left Myanmar for her trip to Europe where she will accept her Nobel Prize.
- The Yemeni government has declared that it has driven al-Qaeda militants from two cities in the South.
- Authorities in Ivory Coast claim to have found evidence of an upcoming coup and have arrested those alleged to be involved.
- A wave of bomb attacks has killed at least 25 in Iraq.
- Foreign Policy highlights 12 signs of the Europocalypse.
- Brazil is upping the ante ahead of G20 talks next week, conditioning more IMF funds on more say for emerging markets.
- In its review of Chinese trade policies, the WTO has held that China is not providing enough data on subsidies to its domestic industries.
- Justice in Conflict has a context piece about the ICC staff being held in Libya.
- According to a recent poll of experts, Canada is the best G20 country in which to be a woman and India is the worst. For more about the situation for females in India, Reuters has this context piece.
- Human Rights Watch reports that the North Korean economic system is built on forced labor.
- The Guardian has an op-ed describing Obama’s drone wars and the normalization of extrajudicial murder.
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