20 Aug Weekday News Wrap: Monday, August 20, 2012
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- Julian Assange has thanked Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa for the “courage he has shown” in granting him political asylum in his first public appearance from the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
- While Britain still denies Assange safe passage from London, Correa chastised the UK for their threats to storm the embassy to remove Assange, calling them “vulgar, inconsiderate and intolerable.” He also called on other Latin American countries to rally behind Ecuador in this international “David versus Goliath” movement.
- Minister of UNASUR, the Union of South American Nations, have issued a statement condemning the UK’s earlier threats to forcibly enter Ecuador’s London embassy. The Organization of American States will also discuss the inviolability of the embassy this coming Friday.
- Egypt’s president Mohamed Mursi is scheduled to visit Tehran at the end of the month, which will be the first such visit since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
- In Syria, fighting rages for control of Aleppo’s airport.
- A flurry of drone attacks in Pakistan on Sunday killed at least 13 and injured many others as Pakistani muslims celebrate Eid-al-Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
- IPS reports about the plans of Palestine to ask for non-member observer status at the United Nations September 27th.
- The Hill reports that Syrian rebel forces are entertaining the idea of joining forces with al-Qaeda.
- UNICEF is concerned with the increasing number of children being recruited as soldiers in Northern Mali.
- The New York Times reports that Iraq has been aiding Iran for months in getting around sanctions posed by the United States.
- Anti-Japanese protests took place in more than 20 Chinese cities on Sunday after rising tensions over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands.
- Argentina is planning to file a WTO complaint against Spain’s decision to ban biofuel imports from outside the EU.
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