26 Sep Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, September 26, 2012
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- Two explosions have occurred near Syrian military headquarters in Damascus.
- Hours before these two explosions, a Qatari emir said that Arabs must intervene in Syria in the absence of Security Council action.
- Foreign Policy offers an insight into a report about the torture tactics used by the government of Syria and their effects on children–sometimes with the children being the victims of the torture themselves.
- On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, the Chinese and Japanese Foreign Ministers have held a meeting over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. The Japanese minister described the meeting as “severe”.
- In an interview with AP, Iranian President Ahmadinejad has pushed for a new world order. He also proposed the creation of a group of 10-11 countries to address the civil war in Syria.
- Iran has condemned the US’ removal of the MEK group from its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
- China has launched its first aircraft carrier, but it is still to develop a plane that can actually land on it.
- Argentina’s President has rejected IMF’s criticism about the unreliability of Argentina’s economic data.
- The EU has challenged US claims that the latter has fully complied with the WTO ruling on Boeing’s subsidies.
- The world’s largest Muslim organization, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, has called for a halt to expressions of “islamophobia” and for these to be curbed by law, in the same way that some countries punish holocaust denial and anti-semitism.
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