27 Jul Weekday News Wrap: Friday, July 27, 2012
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- The skies over Somalia have become so congested with drones that the UAVs pose a threat to air traffic and potentially to an arms-embargo.
- In a shift from the past, the Egyptian president, Mohamed Mursi, met with the leader of Hamas, Ismael Haniyeh.
- The Netherlands suspended $6.15 million in aid to Rwanda yesterday, following a similar move by the US a day earlier, over Rwanda’s support for rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urges nations to “bridge their differences” in coming to a consensus over an arms treaty.
- The United States fears that Syria is preparing for a massacre in the city of Aleppo. Navi Pillay, the UN’s High Commissioner on Human Rights, has stated there will be consequences in international law as the Syrian conflict escalates.
- Jurist covers Amnesty International’s report that Syrian officials are carrying out extrajudicial executions.
- Jurist also reports that the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights has urged Kenya to investigate its post-election violence in 2007.
- The New International Law Blog offers more commentary on the latest ICJ decision in Belgium v. Senegal.
- Foreign Policy points to five hot-spots to watch in the South China Sea as tensions in the region are on the rise and over on Project Syndicate, Gareth Evans offers background on the various territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
- The US Congress will probably wait until after its recess to vote on the proposed repeal of a bill restricting normal trade relations with Russia.
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