12 Oct Weekday News Wrap: Friday, October 12, 2012
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- The European Union has won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize for uniting the continent in the face of the ongoing economic crisis.
- The 10th anniversary of the Bali bombings is being remembered in Bali, Indonesia, and in Australia. The NY Times reports how Indonesian counter-terrorism forces still battle local militant groups.
- Human rights activists in Iran are reportedly beaten, raped and sleep deprived, according to a UN rights report released yesterday.
- In France, prosecutors have uncovered plans for the largest terrorist bomb attack since the GIA attacks in the mid-1990s.
- Hezbollah has admitted flying an Iranian-made drone over Israel last week.
- The US has appointed a retired diplomat, Laurence Pope, as its new charge d’affairs in Libya.
- Security at US embassies in the Middle East remains problematic: a Yemeni national who worked as a security official at the US Embassy has been killed on his way to work.
- Turkey has said that the Russian plane grounded in Turkey yesterday on its way to Syria carried military supplies for the Syrian government.
- Relatives of those killed at the Srebrenica massacre have filed suit against the Netherlands at the European Court of Human Rights.
- Indian newspapers are reporting that a compromise may be in the making at the International Civil Aviation Organization on an international market-based mechanism for international aviation greenhouse gas emissions.
- ASIL has a new Insight entitled Assange and the Law of Diplomatic Relations (.pdf).
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