30 Jan Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
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- Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has appealed to the UN Security Council to take action on Syria which he said is “breaking up before everyone’s eyes”. Meanwhile, there are reports of a new massacre in Aleppo as more than 71 bodies were found by a river.
- Israel has boycotted the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of the rights situation in Israel, which has left the body with the question of how to respond.
- South Korea has launched a rocket in its third attempt to place a satellite in space from its own soil.
- The US Senate has confirmed John Kerry as the next Secretary of State by a wide margin.
- A US judge has approved an agreement for British oil giant BP PLC to plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges and pay a record $4bn in criminal penalties for the company’s role in the 2010 oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
- A Dutch district court in The Hague ruled today that Shell was partly responsible for pollution in Nigeria, a ruling activists say could set a precedent for damage claims related to the foreign activities of multinational companies.
- Niger has given permission for U.S. surveillance drones to be stationed on its territory to improve intelligence on al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters in northern Mali and the wider Sahara.
- An Egyptian court upheld the in absentia death sentences of seven Coptic Christians and an American preacher on charges stemming from the amateur anti-Muslim film Innocence of Muslims, which sparked violent protests in the Middle East last year
- Israel will give Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s administration around $100 million in tax revenues that had been withheld in retaliation for his statehood bid in the UN.
- Foreign Policy asks: is America training too many foreign armies?
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