Posted: 12 Jul 2012 05:00 AM PDT
by Jessica Dorsey - Syria has been hit by a wave of defections, with the latest–that of the ambassador to Iraq–coming yesterday.
- Kofi Annan has urged the UN to “reunite” regarding plans moving forward with Syria, suggesting “consequences” were Syria not to comply with the latest ceasefire calls.
- A human rights group, Women Under Siege, has reported that sexual violence is being used in Syria as a weapon in the conflict.
- Tensions between Japan and China are escalating ahead of an ASEAN summit over the islands dispute in the East China Sea.
- The Special Tribunal for Lebanon agreed yesterday to continue the trial in absentia of the four accused of killing Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, seeing no reason to revisit the Court’s previous decision to do so.
- Israel has made plans to deploy rocket interceptors at its border with Egypt, the first time such interceptors were placed at this location.
- The IOC is in talks with Saudi Arabia regarding its u-turn on sending women to this year’s Olympic Games in London.
- The remains of 520 Muslim men and boys were buried yesterday, 17 years after the massacre at Srebrenica, while Ratko Mladic is on trial at the ICTY. That trial was interrupted today due to Mladic’s falling ill and needing to be taken to the hospital for medical checks.
- The US soldier accused of killing 16 civilians in a March massacre in Afghanistan will begin his hearing September 17th.
- The Ivory Coast’s Ministry of Justice announced yesterday that it will charge two more allies of former President Gbagbo with genocide.
- Now that Thomas Lubanga Dyilo has been convicted and sentenced, Foreign Policy discusses the future trials at the ICC.
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