22 Jan Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, January 22, 2013
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- Russia is evacuating its citizens from Syria, which is interpreted as a loss of confidence in President Assad’s chances of winning the civil war.
- The US has circulated a draft UN Security Council Resolution condemning last month’s rocket launch in North Korea. The resolution has the support of China and presumably also Russia.
- A Japanese lawmaker is in Beijing for talks to defuse the tension surrounding the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. Meanwhile, the Philippines are seeking arbitration to resolve the dispute on the South China Sea.
- The Thai Patriots Network has collected more than a million signatures rejecting ICJ jurisdiction in the reinterpretation of the Temple of Preah Vihar judgment.
- French troops have taken central Malian towns while the rebels have slipped away into the bush to avoid airstrikes.
- China could be considering relaxing its one-child policy.
- A militant youth leader and close ally of Ivory Coast’s ex-president Laurent Gbagbo has been charged with war crimes and murder, according to the state prosecutor.
- Aerial bombardment and ground attacks by government forces in Sudan’s restive south are targeting civilians as well as armed rebels and may amount to war crimes.
- Ugandan soldiers hunting Lord’s Resistance Army group leader Joseph Kony have killed one of his key bodyguards who earned notoriety for the abduction of children, according to an army spokesman.
- Over the weekend, over 140 nations met in Geneva to conclude four years of work on a new treaty to reduce exposure to mercury, which is known to have negative health and environmental effects.
- The ECHR Blog features a commentary on last week’s ECtHR decision in Eweida and Others v. The United Kingdom.
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