Matching Iran’s actions with Iranian aspirations

May 13, 2014 - Daily News Briefing

Today marks the start of nuts-and-bolts negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program.

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Europe’s top human rights court on Monday ordered Turkey to pay €90 million ($123 million) to Cyprus over the 1974 invasion of the island and its subsequent division, in one of the largest judgments in its history. The judgment comes as the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities are making a new effort to reunite the island. The court said it would be up to the government of Cyprus to determine how to award the damages. Turkey has not always complied with the court’s rulings.

Pro-Russian insurgents in Ukraine’s Donetsk region declared independence Monday and asked to join Russia – a day after holding a hastily arranged vote on separatism that Ukraine’s interim government and the West have declared a sham. Organizers said about 90 percent of those who cast ballots Sunday in Donetsk and the neighboring Luhansk region backed sovereignty for the areas that lie along Russia’s border and form Ukraine’s industrial heartland.

A powerful spring storm that dumped more than three feet of snow in some parts of the Rockies closed a major national trucking route, snapped power lines, and drew skiers to the slopes of Colorado’s only remaining ski area.

Workers at US-owned Caltex gas stations in Cambodia went on strike Monday to demand higher wages and better working conditions. A strike leader, Sar Mora, said at least 250 Cambodian employees halted work, forcing at least 17 of the country’s 26 Caltex stations to suspend operations. A spokeswoman for Chevron Corp., the owner of Caltex, said it is working with “local authorities and union representatives” to resolve the dispute.

A new video from Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorist network purports to show dozens of abducted schoolgirls, covered in hijab and praying in Arabic. It is the first public sight of the girls since more than 200 were reportedly kidnapped from a northeastern school April 14. Some escaped by themselves while the rest are missing, police say.

A stampede at a soccer stadium in Congo’s capital killed at least 15 people after angry fans threw rocks from the stands, prompting security officers to fire tear gas that caused crowds to flee in panic, government officials and witnesses said Monday. The stampede at the Tata Raphael Stadium in Kinshasa happened toward the end of a match Sunday between AS Vita Club and TP Mazembe.

The Washington Monument reopened to the public, 33 months after an earthquake damaged the 130-year-old stone obelisk. After a morning ceremony, the 555-foot stone monument that was once the tallest structure in the world reopened to visitors Monday afternoon.

The huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a glacially slow collapse in an unstoppable way, two new studies show. Alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rise than they figured.

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