September 26, 2013

= World =

Armed conflict and attacks

 * Interpol issues a red notice arrest warrant for Briton Samantha Lewthwaite at Kenya's request. (BBC) (Irish Times)

International relations

 * The United States and Russia agree on a draft United Nations Security Council resolution aiming to rid Syria of its chemical weapons. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Law and crime

 * The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague rejects an appeal against a conviction of former President of Liberia Charles Taylor on war crime charges. (BBC)

Armed conflict and attacks

 * Al-Shabaab militants attack two Kenyan towns near the Somali border. (USA Today)

Business and economy

 * Authorities in the U.S. arrest Paul Konigsberg, an accountant, charging him with complicity in the Ponzi scheme of former New York financier Bernard Madoff, a scheme that unraveled in 2008. (Reuters)

Armed conflict and attacks

 * Terrorists attack a police station in India's Jammu and Kashmir state, killing six people, before attacking an Army camp. (Reuters)

Law and crime

 * South Korean prosecutors charge Unified Progressive Party MP Lee Seok-ki with plotting an armed revolt in support of North Korea. (AFP via Channel News Asia)

Middle East
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