08 Nov Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, November 8, 2012
08.11.12
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- The Atlantic has a piece on the foreign policy priorities of Obama’s second term.
- Shortly after Obama’s re-election, the US has supported a call in the UNGA’s Disarmament Committee to revive talks on an Arms Trade Treaty.
- Other reactions to Obama’s re-election: it may be the right time to reopen negotiations with Iran and it may spell trouble for Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu.
- Puerto Rico voted to become the US’ fifty-first state in a non-binding referendum in Tuesday’s elections.
- The EU-China dispute on solar panels runs even hotter with the EU now investigating alleged subsidies to Chinese manufacturers.
- Germany, France and the UK have condemned the approval of Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank as an obstacle to realizing a two-state solution.
- Reuters and the BBC analyse outgoing Chinese President Hu Jintao’s speech at the opening of the 18th Party Congress.
- The Prosecutor of the ICC, Fatou Bensouda, has urged Libya not to grant amnesty for war crimes committed during last year’s uprising against the Gaddafi regime.
- Bahrain has revoked the citizenship of 31 activists that have been calling for more democracy, accusing them of damaging national security interests.
- Germany’s Angela Merkel warned Great Britain against an exit of the EU.
- The UN has extended the Somali peacekeeping force’s mandate.
- At Justice in Conflict, Mark Kersten has an insight into the possibilities of US engagement with the ICC; his advice: don’t hold your breath.
- And on a lighter note, there is now proof that Barack Obama was born in Kenya! As is his twin brother Mitt Romney… Barack also won the race through the birth canal.
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