18 Jan Weekday News Wrap: Friday, January 18, 2013
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- Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has appeared in a court for the first time since his capture last year, in the western town of Zintan, where he is facing charges related to a visit by an ICC lawyer last year. Jurist has more here.
- US and ECOWAS troops will support France’s mission in Mali. Armed Groups in International Law has an insightful post on the French intervention in Mali and Additional Protocol II.
- African Union peacekeepers trying to dislodge Islamist rebels from Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region shot dead at least seven civilians in a remote town, including five children who were studying the Koran.
- The US government has recognized the Somalian government after more than two decades without a central government.
- Algerian forces mounted a rescue operation to end the hostage crisis at the BP plant in In Amenas. Although the details are still unclear, many hostages are expected to have died, and British PM David Cameron has warned Britain to brace for bad news.
- The events in Algeria forced David Cameron to postpone his much anticipated speech. It is reported that he had planned to say that Britain will drift out of the European Union and the European project will fail unless the bloc tackles three serious problems it faces. President Barack Obama told Cameron that the United States “values a strong UK in a strong European Union.”
- The IAEA and Iran appear to have failed again in talks to finalize a deal to unblock an investigation into suspected atom bomb research.
- A Russian opposition activist has been found dead in the Netherlands after being refused political asylum.
- In Zimbabwe, political rivals President Mugabe and PM Tsvangirai have reached a deal on a new constitution which will now be put to a referendum.
- There are reports of a new massacre in Syria that killed more than 100, although both sides reject responsibility.
- India’s Supreme Court has decided that India can exercise criminal jurisdiction over two Italian marines charged with killing two Indian fishermen whom the marines mistook for pirates while protecting cargo ship Enrica Lexie (see this post by Duncan Hollis for background). A special federal court is now to be set up to try the marines.
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