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Top Stories February 2, 2007Washington gets tough on Iranian influence in IraqIran's continued diplomatic posturing in Iraq, plus purported involvement in a recent insurgency attack on US troops, raised hackles in Washington this week. The Administration warned Tehran against assisting Iraqi militants with weapons technology. Still, the US has sent a second aircraft carrier to the region as a security measure. President Bush said the warnings were not a "threat to invade" the country, despite concern in the US Senate of a looming US-Iran conflict. The admonitions mark the latest phase in a growing power-play between the US and Iran over the direction of Middle East politics. - CN ICC debuts in trial of Congo warlordThe International Criminal Court ruled on Monday that sufficient evidence exists to try Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo on war-crime charges. Lubanga is accused of recruiting child soldiers — some as young as ten years old — for ethnic warfare in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri district in 2002 and 2003. The indictment is history-making: the ICC, established in the Hague in 2002, is the first permanent international tribunal for war criminals, and Lubanga will be its first defendant to go on trial. While some 104 nations have signed on to the tribunal, some — including the US — remain skeptical over its mandate. - CF High water mark for global-warming studiesThis week, the UN added one more to the pile of recent climate-change studies — an indication, experts say, not only of the issue's severity, but of its rising priority among the world's voters. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, comprised of 500 global scientists, met in Paris ahead of the Friday release of its latest findings. The report makes dire predictions of meteorological events — including typhoons, heat waves, and breakaway ice shelves — based on how human activity impacts climate. Coinciding with the advance release of the panel's damning results, US political debate on climate change intensified this week. The IPCC will launch another report later in the year with suggestions for combating global warming. - CF |
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