10 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, April 10, 2013
10.04.13
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- South Korea has increased surveillance and asked China to rein in North Korea after Pyongyang moved a long-range missile in preparation for a possible launch.
- North Korea has warned foreigners to evacuate South Korea and said the area is headed for “thermo-nuclear war.”
- Germany and France express growing concerns that Washington-backed EU sanctions on North Korea could negatively affect aid groups.
- Amnesty International published its report (.pdf) on the death penalty in 2012 today, citing global progress with ending the practice.
- John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, has ended three days of meetings in the Middle East promising aid to Palestine and hoping for a restart to the peace process.
- France has begun withdrawing troops from Mali in an effort to transition the operations to a UN-mandated force.
- Jurist has more on Uhuru Kenyatta’s swearing-in as Kenya’s newest president.
- Al-Qaeda’s Iraq branch has reportedly merged with a Syrian armed opposition group, a move likely to cause concern with the opposition’s international supporters.
- US president Barack Obama has pledged military assistance to Somalia in a move to “strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace.”
- Copies of a top-secret US intelligence report obtained by McClatchy news service show that US drone strikes in Pakistan have targeted “alleged Afghan insurgents whose organization wasn’t on the U.S. list of terrorist groups at the time of the 9/11 strikes; of suspected members of a Pakistani extremist group that didn’t exist at the time of 9/11; and of unidentified individuals described as ‘other militants’ and ‘foreign fighters.'”
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