Weekday News Wrap: Friday, February 15, 2013

15 Feb Weekday News Wrap: Friday, February 15, 2013

• Legal philosopher and renowned scholar Ronald Dworkin passed away yesterday in London at the age of 81.
• Kenyan presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta asked the ICC to postpone his trial.
• A city court in Oslo, Norway convicted a Rwandan man for involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and sentenced him to 21 years in prison.
• Amid peace talks, seven troops and an unidentified number of rebels were killed in fighting between FARC rebels and Colombian forces.
• The trial of 11 al-Qaeda suspects has begun in Jordan; the men are accused of plotting to carry out suicide bombings in the capital.
• Syrian rebels have claimed control over Hasaka, a strategic province in the Northeast that is home to domestic oil production.
• The IMF has called talk about “currency wars“, back in the spotlight after a G7 statement earlier this week and on the eve of the G20 meeting in Moscow, to be overblown.
• The US Supreme Court has denied an application by Sea Shepherd against restrictions imposed to it in its battle against Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean. The case raises interesting questions about the jurisdiction of US Courts over the activities of a vessel, flying the Australian flag but owned by a US incorporated society, in the Southern Ocean.
• At the SHARES blog, a new post outlines shared responsibility in UN targeted sanctions.
• Rosa Brooks shares some of her thoughts at Foreign Policy on sovereignty and imminence in Obama’s drone war.
• ASIL has a new Insight on China’s Straight Baseline Claim: Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands (.pdf).

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