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| October 13, 2013 |
 Ahead of talks, Iran rejects shipping out uranium Tehran (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - Iran will not agree to ship out its stockpile of enriched uranium, one of its main negotiators said Sunday ahead of crunch talks with world powers on its nuclear programme. "We will negotiate about the volume, levels and the methods of enrichment but shipping out the (enriched) material is a red line for Iran," deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi told the state broadcaster. The remarks ... more |  |
 Israel to make helmets for US F-35 fighter Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - An Israeli company has been selected to take part in manufacturing hi-tech helmets for pilots of the US F-35 stealth fighter, Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said Sunday. He said in a statement that Elbit Systems and its US partner Rockwell Collins have been chosen by the Pentagon and F35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin to supply helmets for the next generation of the Joint Strike Fighter ... more |  |
 'De-Americanised' world needed after US Shutdown: China media Beijing (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - While US politicians grapple with how to reopen their shuttered government and avoid a potentially disastrous default on their debt, the world should consider 'de-Americanising', a commentary on China's official news agency said Sunday. "As US politicians of both political parties (fail to find a) viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good time f ... more |  |
North Korea warns of 'all-out war' Seoul (AFP) Oct 12, 2013 - North Korea on Saturday issued a fresh warning of an "all-out war", urging the United States to stop military drills and what it described as "nuclear blackmail". In a thinly veiled threat to strike the United States, the North's National Defence Commission (NDC), chaired by leader Kim Jong-Un, said the US government must withdraw its policy of hostility against the North if it wants peace o ... more |  |
 Iraq Kurd chief ready to hit militants in Syria, Iraq Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - Iraqi Kurdistan is prepared to strike militants anywhere, including neighbouring Syria, but the Kurds must avoid being drawn into its civil war, the autonomous region's president Massud Barzani told AFP. Barzani's remarks came after militants carried out a late-September attack on a security service headquarters in the Kurdish region's capital Arbil, killing seven people - a rare occurrence ... more |  |
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Window for Iran diplomacy 'cracking open': Kerry London (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday said the window for diplomacy with Iran was "cracking open" following talks in London with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. Kerry met Ashton in London for talks covering Syria and the forthcoming meeting between Iran and world powers, according to a State Department official. The two-day talks kick off in Geneva on Tuesday amid raised h ... more |  |
 Iraq blasts kill 20 as year's death toll passes 5,000 Baghdad (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - Bombings in Iraq killed 20 people Sunday and brought the year's toll to more than 5,000 dead in a surge in violence that authorities have failed to curb, officials said. Violence in Iraq has reached a level not seen since 2008, when the country was just emerging from a brutal sectarian conflict. The spike in violence, which has included a number of sectarian attacks, has raised fears of ... more |  |
 Israel freezes Gaza supplies after 'terror tunnel' Ein Hashlosha, Israel (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - Israel on Sunday froze the shipment of building materials into Gaza after discovering a sophisticated "terror tunnel" into the Jewish state from the Palestinian territory, a defence official said. "Due to security reasons, (the army) decided to stop for now the transfer of building materials into Gaza," Guy Inbar told AFP. Inbar, spokesman for the Israeli defence ministry unit responsibl ... more |  |
World powers set for nuclear talks with Rouhani's Iran Tehran (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - World powers will meet for fresh talks with Iran on its controversial nuclear programme on Tuesday, as hopes rise for a more conciliatory approach from the new Tehran government. The two-day meeting in Geneva will be the first such negotiations since President Hassan Rouhani, a reputed moderate, took office in August. Rouhani has pledged to engage constructively to resolve the decade-lon ... more |  |
No progress as Colombia peace talks end latest round Havana (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - Colombia's government and the FARC guerrilla group ended another round of negotiations Sunday with mutual recriminations over the lack of progress after 11 months of peace talks. The chief rebel negotiator, Ivan Marquez, insisted it wasn't the FARC putting the brakes on the peace process. "At the close of this cycle of talks, the country should be clear about a great truth: we have worke ... more |  |
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Gunmen kill Libya air force officer in Benghazi: security Benghazi, Libya (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - A Libyan air force officer was killed and another security forces member badly wounded on Sunday in two separate attacks in the eastern city of Benghazi, an official said. "Unidentified assailants opened fire on Abdelfattah al-Ryani, an air force officer, in the Al-Hadaek region of Benghazi," Colonel Abdullah al-Zaidi of the security services told AFP. The officer "died after being struc ... more |  |
US says captured top Pakistani Taliban leader Washington (AFP) Oct 11, 2013 - American troops have captured a senior leader of the Pakistani Taliban, a US official said Friday, in what could prove a major blow to the Islamic militant group just as Kabul is trying to arrange peace talks. "I can confirm that US forces did capture... terrorist leader Latif Mehsud in a military operation," State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said, describing him as a senior com ... more |  |
 Australia commissions MU90 torpedo after delays Canberra, Australia (UPI) Oct 11, 2013 - The Australian navy has commissioned the MU90 torpedo after successful testing firing in August, but years of delay. All the navy's ANZAC and FFG class frigates now have the lightweight MU90, an anti-submarine torpedo that operates in shallow waters, including in congested areas. It can be fired from ships or aircraft and has a range of between 7.7 miles and 15.5 miles depending ... more |  |
 US Army seeks 'Iron Man' armor for commandos Washington (AFP) Oct 12, 2013 - US Army researchers are working on building hi-tech body armor that would give soldiers "superhuman strength" in a real-life version of the suit featured in "Iron Man" films. The blueprint for the "revolutionary" Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) would include an exoskeleton to allow a soldier to carry heavy equipment, built-in computing power, beefed up protection to stop bullets ... more |  |
Vietnamese bid final farewell to war hero General Giap Quang Binh , Vietnam (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese lined the streets Sunday for the funeral of independence hero General Vo Nguyen Giap who orchestrated the country's stunning wartime victories over France and the United States. Military trucks carrying Giap's flag-draped coffin through Hanoi were met by vast crowds - at places 10 or 20 deep - with many mourners falling to their knees to pray as the cort ... more |  |
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Outside View: U.S. shutdown costs longer-term relations with Asia Washington (UPI) Oct 11, 2013 - No good has come from the political deadlock plaguing Washington. But the U.S. government shutdown and looming fears about the nation's debt levels have hurt the country's relations with Asia particularly hard. Even if the U.S. Congress is able to reach a compromise soon to get back to business as usual, U.S. relations with the Asia-Pacific region may suffer in the longer term. W ... more |  |
Pakistan army chief supports dialogue with Taliban Islamabad (AFP) Oct 12, 2013 - Pakistan's powerful army chief General Ashfaq Kayani Saturday said the army supports the government's policy of dialogue with the Taliban to end the insurgency wracking the country. The main Pakistani political parties last month backed a government proposal to seek negotiations with the militants, who have been waging a bloody insurgency against the state since 2007. But the umbrella Te ... more |  |
Guyana accuses Venezuela navy after ship detained Georgetown, Guyana (AFP) Oct 11, 2013 - Guyana on Friday accused Venezuela's navy of detaining a US-operated research vessel in disputed waters off its coast, in a fresh territorial spat between the South American neighbors. The Guyana Foreign Ministry said a Venezuelan navy ship had confronted the Teknik Perdana on Thursday as it explored off the coast of Essequibo, a region Venezuela claims is its own. The ship, contracted t ... more |  |
Tight post-attack security curbs Iraqi Kurdistan tourism Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Oct 12, 2013 - Tight security measures imposed after a rare deadly attack in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region have curbed tourism ahead of the year's biggest Muslim holiday, industry officials and business owners say. Kurdistan's relative security is normally a draw for holidaymakers from other parts of Iraq, but the measures aimed at averting another attack are now making it harder for such tourists to ... more |  |
Three arrested over Iraqi Kurdistan attack: officials Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Oct 12, 2013 - The authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan have arrested three men allegedly involved in an attack that killed seven people last month in the autonomous region's capital Arbil, officials said on Saturday. "We were able to arrest... terrorists who have a direct relationship with the terrorist operation that targeted Arbil," the region's national security adviser, Masrur Barzani, told a news conferenc ... more | |
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