Tear gas used on Egyptian protesters
According to the New York Times, riot police fired tear gas at tens of thousands of protesters gathered outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Tuesday. The demonstrators were protesting a draft constitution that was rushed through a conservative Islamist-dominated assembly last week. Egyptians will vote on the constitution in a Dec. 15 referendum.
President Mohamed Morsi, who won Egypt?s first contested election with direct universal suffrage by a slim margin after former leader Hosni Mubarak was overthrown, decreed on Nov. 22 that he and the panel responsible for writing the nation?s new constitution were exempt from judicial review. On Sunday, tens of thousands of pro-Morsi protesters surrounded Egypt?s Supreme Constitutional Court and caused the indefinite postponement of all sessions.?
Morsi?s opponents accuse him of trying to force through a constitution that will allow them to ?push Egyptian society in the direction of religious conservatism,? according to the Times. Eleven newspapers in Egypt refused to publish Tuesday in protest, and three television networks said they would withhold broadcast Wednesday.?
Almost two years after Egyptians rose up to overthrow Mubarak, the country remains split roughly in half between conservative Muslims and Christians and liberals.
Alleged serial killer commits suicide in custody in Alaska
Authorities in Alaska reported that, Israel Keyes, who was arrested and charged with the February abduction and murder of an 18-year-old barista, committed suicide in police custody on Sunday. The FBI field office in Anchorage reported that Keyes, 34, had also confessed to at least seven other murders beginning in 2001.
According to CNN, Keyes committed four murders in Washington state, two in Vermont and one somewhere along the East Coast, in addition to February?s Alaska murder. Keyes is said to have chosen his victims at random. He was arrested in March and could have faced the death penalty if convicted.
At least nine killed by mortar shell in Syrian elementary school
According to the New York Times on Tuesday, the Syrian government blamed rebel forces for a mortar attack that hit a school in the Damascus suburbs that left 29 civilians dead. Antigovernment groups confirmed the attack, but said only nine people were killed.
As fighting rages on between the government and the rebel Free Syrian Army, the United Nations warns that it is becoming increasingly difficult to provide food to displaced Syrians.?
The Free Syrian Army, in its 20th month of armed rebellion, is rumored to be advancing on Damascus, a stronghold for President Bashar al-Assad and the incumbent Ba?ath party, the Times reported.
Source: http://www.kstatecollegian.com/2012/12/05/international-news-briefs-5/
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