Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, April 12, 2012

12 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, April 12, 2012

• Dioncounde Traore will be sworn in as Mali’s interim president today and is tasked with pulling the nation in turmoil back on the right track.
• Syria has said it will comply with its truce deadlines today by halting military activity, but reserves its right to combat terrorist attacks. Kofi Annan says that Iran can be part of Syria’s solution.
• In the wake of the Arab Spring, start-up social media and networking companies are thriving in the Middle East.
• Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu will propose direct talks with Palestinian Leader Mahmud Abbas in Jerusalem next week.
• Sudan has severed all African-Union mediated discussion with South Sudan, amid escalating rhetoric and military activity and stated it is prepared to use “all means necessary” in dealing with its neighbor to the South. British MPs are bleak about the entire situation.
• A French prosecutor has approved an international arrest warrant for the son of Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Nguema Obiang on money laundering charges.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he wouldn’t mind presidential term limits…for the next guy.
• India’s Environment Minister threatening that the EU’s decision to include aviation in its ETS is a deal breaker for global warming talks.
• Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe returns from Singapore “as fit as a fiddle.”
• The U.S. pick for World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, made his case before the board of directors; he also garnered Mexico’s support.

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