03 Sep Weekday News Wrap: Monday, September 3, 2012
03.09.12
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- Rebels have hit army headquarters in Damascus planting bombs targeting high-level officers.
- More US drone strikes in Yemen kill at least eight, including five suspected of having al-Qaeda ties, while a Yemeni warplane missed its intended target and killed 10 civilians.
- Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to resume flights between capital cities for the first time in almost five months.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and former US President George W. Bush to be put on trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for their roles in the Iraq war.
- The first evacuations of the Migron outpost in the West Bank have begun, in accordance with a 2011 Israeli Supreme Court decision finding that the settlement was illegally built upon Palestinian territory.
- Japanese officials have visited the disputed islands in the East China Sea and surveyed the area, a move that Beijing state media call illegal.
- A Brazilian judge has agreed to hear the first war crimes trials involving members of the dictatorship during military rule from 1964-1985.
- The IAEA claims that Iran has doubled its nuclear production capacity at the Fordo site, though the centrifuges there are not yet operational.
- On Friday, the WTO Dispute Settlement Body established a dispute panel at the request of India to investigate US countermeasures on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from India. The US exercised its right to block the establishment of a panel at the first meeting at which it is requested in a request by China over US countervailing measures against Chinese solar panels. Australia similarly blocked an Ukrainian request for a panel over Australia’s plain packaging rules for tobacco products.
- Islamic extremists have taken over Douentza, a strategic town in Mali.
- The US has suspended training of new recruits for Afghan security forces after NATO troops experienced an increase of “green on blue” attacks recently.
- A column in China’s official newspaper has rejected Turkish proposals to establish an internationally enforced safe zone for refugees of the Syrian crisis.
- Egypt has appointed an experienced diplomat as its new ambassador to Israel, in a move that is seen as a positive sign.
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