News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 315
Europe Failing Syrian Refugees
- Inter Press Service
LUCERNE, Switzerland, Sep 12 (IPS) - Refugee rights organisations are demanding an EU-wide temporary protection regime for Syrian refugees. The announcement by some countries that they can take a few thousand refugees is not enough, the groups say.
Israelis Prepare Themselves Regardless
- Inter Press Service
RAMAT GAN, Israel, Sep 12 (IPS) - Unmindful of news of the U.S. delaying its military action on Syria to pursue the Russian plan for international monitors to take control and destroy Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons, Israelis continue to collect their gas mask kits at Home Front Command distribution centres.
Mixed Reactions to Obama’s Embrace of Russian Deal
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - President Barack Obama's decision to put off a vote by Congress on the use of military force against Syria in order to pursue a Russian proposal to place Damascus' chemical-weapons arsenal under international control has evoked both cheers and jeers from across the political spectrum here Wednesday.
Preoccupied with Syria, U.S. Still Saddled with Egypt
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 11 (IPS) - The United States, which is preoccupied with the ongoing political and military developments in Syria, is still saddled with an unresolved problem elsewhere in the Middle East: the military takeover of Egypt's first democratically-elected government.
Even if Syria Complies on Chemical Arms, Six Others Still at Large
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 10 (IPS) - If Syria eventually agrees to relinquish its stockpile of chemical arms under the 1993 international Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), what of the six other countries that have either shown reluctance or refused to join the treaty?
Somalia President Rides Through a Bumpy Year
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU/NAIROBI, Sep 10 (IPS) - After his first year as president of the world's most dangerous and failed state, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is still grappling with limited financial resources, corruption, a lack of service delivery, and the ongoing assassinations of government officials, including attempts on his own life.
Afghans Caught Between Terror and Corruption
- Inter Press Service
HERAT, Afghanistan, Sep 10 (IPS) - The threat to the stability of the Hamid Karzai government in Afghanistan arises not so much from outside as from within. And the one thing that is eating into its edifice is the malaise called corruption.
Russia Throws Obama a Life Preserver on Syria
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 10 (IPS) - With President Barack Obama facing increasingly certain defeat in his quest for Congressional authorisation to carry out military strikes against Syria, the Russian government Monday appeared to offer the White House a way out of the crisis.
U.N. Inspection a Figleaf to Justify Air Strike on Syria
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 09 (IPS) - The United Nations, which has remained deadlocked over Syria, is in danger of being craftily exploited to justify the impending air strike on Damascus.
Obama's Case for Syria Didn't Reflect Intel Consensus
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 09 (IPS) - Contrary to the general impression in Congress and the news media, the Syria chemical warfare intelligence summary released by the Barack Obama administration Aug. 30 did not represent an intelligence community assessment, an IPS analysis and interviews with former intelligence officials reveals.
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