05 Feb Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, February 5, 2013
05.02.13
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- The US Department of Justice’s White Paper justifying its drone strike and targeted killing program was leaked to NBC yesterday. The story is here, the white paper is here. Kevin Jon Heller already has early analysis pieces on OJ here and here.
- Although not yet formally approved, US military leaders have agreed to pre-emptive cyber strikes in the face of an imminent and large scale digital attack.
- Mike Lewis has an op-ed in the LA Times making the case for drones.
- EJIL: Talk! has a post about the UK’s use of drones in Afghanistan and its definition of “civilians.”
- EJIL: Talk! also offers an analysis of the recent report by the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICC on the situation in Colombia.
- Israel arrested 23 Hamas members in the occupied West Bank, some of them lawmakers, according to the group and the Israeli army.
- Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has expressed interest in visiting the Gaza Strip.
- A French-owned Luxembourg-flagged tanker with 17 crew members that went missing off Ivory Coast is believed to have been hijacked by Nigerian pirates.
- The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda overturned the genocide convictions of former Rwandan ministers Justin Mugenzi and Prosper Mugiraneza after concluding that the trial chambers had erred in assessing key pieces of evidence.
- Human Rights Watch has released its World Report 2013.
- On Friday in Senegal, the Extraordinary Africa Chambers will commence its trial against former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré.
- And on a lighter note: fashionable ladies, rejoice! It is now legal to wear pants in Paris.
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