scrutiny
.
It is 16 years ago next week that the Srebrenica massacre took place.
And successive Dutch governments have always said they could not be held responsible; their troops were not given
sufficient
support by the United Nations. Now a Dutch court has taken issue with that argument and raised the prospect of multiple compensation cases.
Pakistan's Human Rights Commission has criticised the authorities in the southern city of Karachi for failing to stop multiple targeted killings. It says more than 1,000 people have been shot dead there since the start of this year. Here's Shahzeb Jillani.
The city, which generates nearly half of Pakistan's total revenue, is
plague
d by extortion rackets, mafia-run land-grabs and turf wars waged by armed groups fighting for their share of resources. But the commission's chairwoman Zohra Yusuf said the main reason why the violence was allowed to continue was political. She said that armed gangs who carry out planned killings with impunity operate with the backing of the city's main political parties.
The former French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde has taken over as managing director of the International Monetary Fund. She's the first woman to run it and was appointed following the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sex charges in May. Mrs Lagarde takes over at a time of
formidable
challenges with the IMF needing to make sure that the Greek debt crisis doesn't spread to other