Today In International News: November 22, 2017

Courtesy of Reuters

• A U.N. tribunal convicted ex-Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic of genocide and crimes against humanity for massacres of Bosnian Muslims and ethnic cleansing campaigns to forge a “Greater Serbia”, and jailed him for life.

• New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is investigating what he calls a massive scheme to corrupt the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with fake public comments on net neutrality.

• A retired Alabama police officer said police were told in the 1970s to make sure now-GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore stayed away from high school cheerleaders.

• The former head of a U.S. government ethics watchdog said he had filed a complaint claiming senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway violated a law barring executive branch employees from engaging in political activity when she spoke on television against a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate.

• The United States has for the first time called Myanmar's campaign against the Rohingya "ethnic cleansing”.

• Pyongyang also said that putting North Korea back on the terrorism blacklist will only strengthen its resolve to further develop the its nuclear weapons program.

• Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) founder, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attack, has been set free by a Pakistani court.

• Lebanon’s Saad al-Hariri placed his decision to resign as prime minister on hold at the request of President Michel Aoun, easing a crisis that had deepened tensions in the Middle East.

• Zimbabwe’s former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa will be sworn in as president on Friday, marking a new era for the country ruled by Robert Mugabe from independence nearly 4 decades ago until his swift downfall this week. "We want to grow our economy, we want peace, we want jobs, jobs, jobs," Mnangagwa told a cheering crowd in Harare. 

• Syrians in the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta are so short of food that they are eating trash, fainting from hunger and forcing their children to eat on alternate days. 

• A video released by the U.N shows a North Korean border guard briefly crossed the border with the South in the chase for a defector last week - a violation of the ceasefire accord between North and South.

• A U.S. Navy transport plane carrying 11 people crashed in the Philippine Sea south of Japan.

• Multiple countries are launching probes into Uber after a report revealed that it had covered up a massive cyber attack that exposed the data of 57 million passengers and drivers last year.

• The Pentagon says it is investigating allegations of misbehavior by 3 service members during President Donald Trump’s trip to Asia earlier this month. The Army personnel are under investigations for claims they broke curfew and had improper contact with foreign women during Trump’s stop in Vietnam.