13 Aug Weekday News Wrap: Monday, August 13, 2012
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- Syrian government forces have stepped up the attacks in Aleppo, Damascus, Homs and Idlib while the rebels have made a plea for no-fly zones. The United States and Turkey have said they will look into these options. Human Rights Watch reports that civilians in Aleppo are increasingly exposed to great risk in the conflict and also offers a Q & A about issues related to international humanitarian law in Syria.
- Officials from Sudan have said they are “very optimistic” about a border security agreement with South Sudan allowing oil exports to resume.
- Kurdish militants have kidnapped a Turkish MP in Turkey and a PKK-linked group has taken responsibility for an attack on a Turkish military bus last week killing two and injuring 12.
- Belarus’ top security agency, the KGB, has summoned the three Swedes for questioning who dropped teddy bears over Belarusian airspace with messages promoting human rights.
- Tanzania has confirmed that a shipping agent in Dubai re-flagged 36 Iranian oil ships with the Tanzanian flag without its knowledge.
- Japan is weighing its options to take a dispute about islands with South Korea to the International Court of Justice. The islands, known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea, lie equidistant from the two mainlands and are believed to contain frozen natural gas deposits potentially worth billions of dollars.
- France has evicted approximately 200 Roma people from their settlements and flown 240 from France to Romania.
- Foreign Policy offers A Short History of Targeted Killings: How America Came to Embrace Assassination in its latest issue.
- Al Arabyia sheds some light into the business world of pirates, whose practices sometimes come complete with letterhead.
- Egyptian President Morsi has ousted the head of the armed forces and the chief of staff, in what is a sign of a looming constitutional showdown.
- A report to the Australian Parliament has recommended that asylum seekers be deported to processing centres in Malaysia, Papua New Guinea or Nauru
- Lebanese authorities have indicted a senior Syrian official and a Lebanese politician with planning assassinations terrorist attacks in Lebanon.
- Saudi Arabia is creating women-only cities to create employment opportunities for women while maintaining gender segregation.
- A judge in Hong Kong has ruled that the Occupy Hong Kong movement must clear the public space below the HSBC Asian headquarters.
- Israel’s deputy foreign minister has called over the weekend for an international declaration that diplomatic efforts to stop Iran’s nuclear activities are dead.
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