World Lens — Week in Review: May 1
U.S. proposes sanctions for Sudan, South Sudan and more.
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U.S. Draft Proposes Sanctions for Sudan, South Sudan - The United States circulated a draft resolution at the United Nations Thursday proposing sanctions for both Sudan and South Sudan if they refuse to comply with the African Union’s plans for peace. Also last week, the president of newly independent South Sudan told China's president that attacks by rival Sudan amount to a declaration of war on his country.(Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)
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Jamaica’s Murder Rate Drops 30 Percent - Jamaican Minister of National Security Peter Bunting announced that the country’s murder rate has seen a 30 percent dip since the beginning of the year. “Hopefully, we are seeing the beginning of a trend and there are certain mechanisms in place to ensure that we don’t lose these gains that we have been picking up. In fact, all major crimes have been trending down over the past few months...but this is not enough,” Bunting said. (Photo: REUTERS/Hans Deryk)
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Twenty One Killed in North Nigeria Church Attacks - Gunmen attacked worship services at a university campus and a church Sunday in Northern Nigeria killing at least 21 people in coordinated assaults that saw panicked Christians gunned down as they tried to flee, witnesses and officials said. (Photo: AMINU ABUBAKAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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Former Liberian President Taylor Found Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity - Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia and onetime powerful warlord, was found guilty of crimes against civilians in Sierra Leone during that nation’s civil war in the 1990s. (Photo: PASCAL GUYOT/AFP/Getty Images)
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Rupert Murdoch Called “Unfit” to Run News Corp. - As the result of a probe into the embattled media giant, News Corp., owned by Rupert Murdoch, British lawmakers determined that the media mogul was “not fit to run” an international company due to his alleged “willful blindness” about what was going on in his companies and publications.(Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
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Bolivian Sex Workers on Hunger Strike - Sex workers in the Bolivian city of El Alto have launched a hunger strike in efforts to bring an end to a month-long doctor's strike, which has resulted in the closure of public hospitals across the country that the workers rely on for health care. Normally, the workers receive weekly check-ups and STD testing at public hospitals and clinics. (Photo: Al Jazeera)
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African Migrant Workers Exploited on Italian Farms - Many North African and Eastern European workers are earning just $20-40 a day for hard labor on Italy’s farms and forced to live in squalid conditions, Al Jazeera reports. The news agency reports that Italian authorities turn a blind eye to both the undocumented immigrants and the violations of the farm owners because the industry is run by powerful mafias.
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U.S. Officials Defend Drone Use for Targeting - President Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan, defended the administration’s use of military drones to target and kill specific terrorism suspects. "Yes, in full accordance with the law — and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives — the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al-Qaeda terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones," Brennan said in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington.
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Arab League Supports the Prosecution of Gadhafi Son - The Arab League announced that it supports Libya’s desire to try the son of late leader Moammar Gadhafi, Saif al-Islam, for war crimes on Libyan soil. "The Arab League supports the Libyan position to hold the trial of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in front of a Libyan justice tribunal. The Libyan government has repeatedly assured that all conditions ... would be met to organize a fair and impartial trial on its territory." (Photo: Ammar El-Darwish/Landov)
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Miss Black France Pageant Ruffles Feathers - The first-ever Miss Black France pageant was held this past weekend but the inaugural event was met with jeers from white French who felt the event was exclusionary and divisive. (Photo: Foc Kan/WireImage/Getty Images)