The
International Criminal Court found last week that the Burmese Government has
committed human rights violations against its Muslim minority and ordered it to
take appropriate action to stop further violations.
The British
Parliament voted for the United
Kingdom to leave the European Union, which
it officially did Friday, but with the current customs and trade relationship
kept in place to allow for negotiations on a new arrangement by the end of the
year. Parliament had approved a deal to
leave the EU last month, carrying out the non-binding referendum of June 2016,
in which a majority voted in favor of leaving, but a new relationship between
the UK and EU must be negotiated. The
approval prevents, at least for now, the uncertainty of a departure without
customs and trade arrangements. The UK is now
seeking a free-trade agreement with the EU and plans to negotiate trade deals
with non-EU States.
Venezuelan
democratic opposition leader Juan Guaido, who, as leader of the national
assembly invoked a constitutional provision to declare himself interim
President, held a rally to call for free and fair presidential elections. The Socialist regime used elections to gain
power and then became authoritarian and has not permitted elections to be free,
either for president or assembly. Even
when the democratic opposition won a supermajority of seats, the dictatorship
refused to seat some of them and then supplanted the assembly with another
body. The United
States and many Latin American and European States
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