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01 Jun Weekday News Wrap: Friday, June 1, 2012

Syria has claimed that anti-government forces carried out the massacre in Houla in order to spur other nations into intervening. The UN and other nations have expressed concern that Syria is on the brink of a sectarian civil war. Russia and the US have been trading accusations about the situation in Syria. Anne-Marie Slaughter at FP posits that Syria is not a problem from hell…but if we don’t act quickly, it will be. A Syrian rebel group is claiming to hold 11 Lebanese pilgrims kidnapped in Syria...

08 Oct Weekday News Wrap: Monday, October 8, 2012

Islamic groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad fired rockets into Israel in retaliation for yesterday’s Israeli strikes in the Gaza strip. Amnesty International has reported that Rwandan military intelligence services have engaged in torture, unlawful detention and enforced disappearances of civilians . Sudanese state media reports that the border between Sudan and South Sudan will reopen today, after a security agreement was reached last month. Turkish forces fired across the border into Syria on Sunday after a shell launched from Syria landed in Turkey’s border town of Akcakale,...

15 Sep Weekend Roundup: September 8 – 14, 2012

The attacks on US embassies in the Arab world did not escape our bloggers’ attention this week. Duncan Hollis posted about host states’ duties to protect diplomatic and consular premises, and questioned whether Libya and Egypt could be held responsible for the attacks. Julian Ku asked which responses to the death of ambassador Christopher Stevens would be legal under US constitutional and international law. In another post, Julian referred to news reports that the US sent two navy destroyers, marines, investigators and intelligence personnel to Libya to find...

03 Sep Weekday News Wrap: Monday, September 3, 2012

Rebels have hit army headquarters in Damascus planting bombs targeting high-level officers. More US drone strikes in Yemen kill at least eight, including five suspected of having al-Qaeda ties, while a Yemeni warplane missed its intended target and killed 10 civilians. Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to resume flights between capital cities for the first time in almost five months. Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and former US President George W. Bush to be put on trial at the...

25 Nov Weekend Roundup: November 17 – 24, 2012

Posting was light this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. We hope all our US readers had a very happy Thanksgiving holiday! Peter Spiro commented on the territorialist approach in Obama’s speech on citizenship during this week’s visit to Burma. Deborah Pearlstein posted about the ABA’s recent journalists’ guide on national security law, to which she contributed a chapter on international law in US courts. Kristen Boon reported on the UN Security Council’s debate on maritime piracy, and the resulting presidential statement, and wondered about...

30 Jun Weekend Roundup: June 23 – 29, 2012

This week on Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller continued coverage of the Melinda Taylor situation in Libya, pointing out a special report in the Guardian detailing her detention and that so far, the “non-apology apology” issued by the ICC has not helped the situation. In other ICC-related news, he pointed out John Bellinger’s editorial on the Court at 10 years old. Kevin additionally gave an informative look at how Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch do not, in fact, ignore labor rights, as Kathleen Geier might have us...

10 Aug Weekday News Wrap: Friday, August 10, 2012

The UK has appointed a senior judge to lead the inquest in the death of Russian ex-spy Litvinenko from polonium poising in 2006 in London. Veteran international diplomat, Lakhdar Brahimi, has been tapped as Kofi Annan’s successor as UN-Arab League joint special envoy for Syria. In the Syrian conflict, government troops have forced rebels from a key district in the city of Aleppo. In response to the PILPG memo featured in our Weekday News Wrap on Wednesday, the New International Law Blog offers an analysis posing the...

26 Jul Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, July 26, 2012

The UN Security Council has lifted travel bans and asset freezes on 17 Liberians, including at least two of Charles Taylor’s ex-wives. A special assembly met in Somalia to set up a new government. Using drones for surveillance and then shooting from helicopters, Turkey has killed 15 Kurdish rebels near its border with Iraq. EJIL: Talk! has more on the Belgium v. Senegal case, asking whether the Court really ended the dispute between the parties. Regardless of the answer to that question, the AU and Senegal have...

27 Sep Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, September 27, 2012

Japan has promised that it will not compromise on the dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, calling them an integral part to the country’s territory. It did not take very long for China to react. The High Court of England and Wales issued an injunction against the extradition to the United States of Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and Saudi-born Khaled al-Fawwaz despite a recent ruling from the European Court of Human Rights approving their extradition. UN members seemed deeply divided yesterday on what to do about the...

05 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, April 5, 2012

As an advance group of UN peacekeepers arrived in Syria for talks on the monitoring of the ceasefire, violence erupted again. Russia is seeking more influence in the Syrian situation, and has invited the Syrian foreign minister and representatives of the Syrian opposition for separate talks in Moscow, on 10 April and 17-18 April respectively. Russia also urges other states not to arm the Syrian opposition. The Pentagon has referred Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 4 others to trial by military commission in Guantanamo Bay for their roles...