is obliged to
arrest the Sudanese leader if he enters its territory. The government spokesman in Khartoum told the BBC that if Uganda’s decision was confirmed, Sudan would ask the AU to move its conference to another country.
A national referendum in Slovenia has
narrowly
approved the government’s decision to accept binding international arbitration in a dispute over the sea-border with Croatia. The decision should remove a major
hurdle
to Croatia’s membership negotiations with the European Union which had been blocked by Slovenia over the row. Mark Lowen reports.
Just under 52% voted in favor of international arbitration, a slim but highly significant victory for Slovenia’s government. Ownership of the Bay of Piran which's severely damaged relations between Slovenia and Croatia for 19 years will now be decided by a binding arbitration panel. The row over the bay had led Slovenia to block Croatia’s EU membership negotiations.
That has been now cleared, giving Zagreb the hope that it can soon complete talks to join the block in 2012 which the Slovenian government supports.
Tornados and thunderstorm have swept through the mid-west of the United States, killing at least 4 people and destroying dozens of homes. All the deaths were in the state of Ohio, where a tornado tours way of the destruction through Lake Township,
flatten
ing buildings and
toss