24 Jan Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, January 24, 2013
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- North Korea has said it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test that would target the United States.
- Several European leaders have criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron’s demand for radical reform of the EU and promise of an “in-out” referendum on UK membership.
- US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has decided to lift the military’s ban on women serving in combat, a move that could open thousands of frontline war-fighting jobs to female service members.
- At least six suspected al Qaeda members were killed in a U.S. drone strike in northern Yemen yesterday, local sources said, in an escalating campaign in which at least 20 alleged Islamist militants have died this week.
- Somali insurgents linked to al Qaeda have demanded that Kenya release all Muslims held on terror charges within three weeks, failing which they said they would kill their Kenyan hostages.
- The Palestinians declared Wednesday that they will have no choice but to complain about Israel to the International Criminal Court if the Jewish state proceeds with plans to build housing on land the Palestinians want for a future state.
- A former Thai magazine editor was jailed for 10 years on Wednesday for insulting the royal family under the country’s draconian lese-majeste law.
- Justice in Conflict offers a piece about the role of human rights in the intervention in Mali.
- A US appellate court has held a brief hearing in a Holocaust restitution case, which raises interesting questions of jurisdiction.
- Russia’s foreign minister wants better US-Russia relations and has invited President Obama to meet with President Putin, but is standing firm on Syria.
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