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| January 08, 2014 |
 Israel moves closer to anti-missile shield with Arrow 3 test Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jan 6, 2013 - Israel's latest test-firing of its high-altitude Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system marks a major step toward the Jewish state's plan to build a multilayer missile defense shield against everything from Iranian intermediate-range ballistic weapons to home-made rockets built by Palestinian militants. The Arrow, under development by state-run Israel Aerospace Industries and the Boeing ... more |  |
 N-test legacy in stratosphere bigger than thought, study Paris (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Levels of radioactive plutonium in Earth's stratosphere from nuclear tests and accidents is higher than previously thought, but probably not dangerous to humans, scientists in Switzerland said Tuesday. It was previously thought that plutonium radionuclides - radioactive atoms which can take decades or thousands of years to degrade - were present in the stratosphere only at negligible level ... more |  |
 France-UAE satellite deal shaky after US spy tech discovered onboard Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 07, 2014 - The sale of two intelligence satellites to the UAE by France for nearly a billion dollars could go south after they were found to contain American technology designed to intercept data transmitted to the ground station. The equipment, costing 3.4 billion dirhams ($930 million), constitutes two high-resolution Pleiades-type Falcon Eye military intelligence satellites, which a top UAE defen ... more |  |
 Technology one step ahead of war laws London, UK (SPX) Jan 07, 2014 - Today's emerging military technologies-including unmanned aerial vehicles, directed-energy weapons, lethal autonomous robots, and cyber weapons like Stuxnet-raise the prospect of upheavals in military practices so fundamental that they challenge long-established laws of war. Weapons that make their own decisions about targeting and killing humans, for example, have ethical and legal implic ... more |  |
 Iraq at crossroads between reconciliation and war: analysts Baghdad (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - An intensifying revolt in a Sunni Arab province of Iraq sparked by the Shiite-led government's dispersal of a year-old protest leaves the country at the crossroads between reconciliation and civil war, analysts say. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki must decide in the coming days whether to offer a real share of power to the disenchanted Sunni minority, or press on with allegedly sectarian polic ... more |  |
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 Ishihara backs sacked military chief for Tokyo governor Tokyo (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - China-baiting former Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara on Tuesday threw his weight behind the political ambitions of an ex-military chief who was sacked after insisting Japan was not a World War II aggressor. The acerbic Ishihara, 81, who was governor of Tokyo for 13 years to 2012, said he believed the next leader of the metropolis should be fellow hardline nationalist Toshio Tamogami, the on ... more |  |
US speeds up drone, missile deliveries to aid Iraq Washington (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - The United States said Monday it would speed up its deliveries of missiles and surveillance drones to Iraq as the Baghdad government battles a resurgence of Al-Qaeda linked militants. The White House, meanwhile, dismissed claims that the fighting, which has seen militants retake the city of Fallujah, was a result of President Barack Obama's decision to withdraw US troops. Vice President ... more |  |
Syria peace meet must seek future without Assad: Turkey PM Tokyo (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - A UN-hosted peace conference on Syria must work to remove President Bashar al-Assad from power because of his culpability for tens of thousands of deaths, Turkey's Prime Minster said in Tokyo on Tuesday. "In Geneva 2, we must make sure that... all the measures will not fail...so that we can (bring) in an era without Bashar al-Assad," he said, referring to peace talks planned later this month ... more |  |
Iraqi Sunnis flee Anbar turmoil for Shiite Karbala Ain Tamr, Iraq (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - A steady stream of families fleeing fighting in Ramadi and Fallujah is arriving at a checkpoint in Iraq's Karbala province, seeking shelter from the deadly violence. As militants hold parts of Ramadi and all of Fallujah, in Anbar province, Sunni families are now seeking safety in the Shiite-majority Karbala province, in a country that has been plagued by sharp sectarian divisions. The ch ... more |  |
Harry Potter wizard invoked as Japan admits no hope of China summit Tokyo (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - The diplomatic bickering between Japan and China descended into name-calling in the British press Monday, with ambassadorial claim and counter-claim invoking the fictional evil wizard of the Harry Potter series, Lord Voldemort. In an opinion piece published in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Tokyo's envoy to London Keiichi Hayashi compared Beijing to the arch-villain of JK Rowling's multi-mil ... more |  |
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Iraqi PM tells residents to oust militants to avoid assault Ramadi, Iraq (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on Fallujah residents to expel "terrorists" to avoid a security forces assault, as the United States said it would speed up deliveries of missiles and surveillance drones to the Baghdad government. Fallujah has been outside government control for days, while parts of Anbar provincial capital Ramadi, farther west, are also held by militants. It i ... more |  |
US bolsters forces in South Korea with armored unit Washington (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - The US military will deploy 800 additional troops from an armored unit to South Korea to bolster its forces in case of a crisis with North Korea, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The US Army soldiers, armored vehicles and tanks from the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment will be stationed at camps Hovey and Stanley near the demarcation line with the North starting next month, military officers s ... more |  |
 Turkey clears army over deadly attack on Kurds Istanbul (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Turkish military prosecutors on Tuesday cleared five army officers accused of perpetrating a botched air strike on Kurds in 2012 that killed dozens of people including children. But the ruling was immediately denounced by Kurdish groups and representatives of the victims' families as unacceptable. In December 2012, Turkish fighter jets bombed the town of Uludere on the Iraq border, killi ... more |  |
Kerry ends Mideast trip without framework deal Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - US Secretary of State John Kerry headed home from the Middle East on Monday, insisting progress had been made despite failing to reach a framework to guide Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. On his 10th visit to the region as the top US diplomat, Kerry devoted four days to intense diplomacy and spent hours locked in separate meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestini ... more |  |
Japan FM leaves for Spain, France amid China row Tokyo (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Japan's foreign minister left for Spain and France on Tuesday, where he was expected to press Tokyo's case in its spat with China. In a message on his ministry's Facebook page, Fumio Kishida noted the visits were his first of the new year. "I will continue to visit foreign countries actively this year, protect national interests and press ahead with diplomacy that contributes to world pe ... more |  |
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Israel approves new settlement plans: rights group Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - A plan for 272 new homes in West Bank settlements was approved on the eve of US Secretary of State John Kerry's departure Monday, Israel's Peace Now movement said. Israel had been expected to announce new settlement plans alongside the release of Palestinian prisoners last week - as it did during previous releases - in a bid to ease the concerns of hardliners as it engages in US-brokered p ... more |  |
Peace talks deadline may be extended: Israel minister Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Middle East peace talks could be extended beyond their April deadline, Israel's defence minister said Tuesday, insisting current negotiations were aimed solely at providing a framework for final talks. The remarks came a day after US Secretary of State John Kerry left following four days of intense meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, during which he failed to broker agreement on a ... more |  |
First chemical materials removed from Syria: UN-OPCW Damascus (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - A first shipment of material has been removed from Syria under a deal to rid the country of its chemical weapons arsenal, the joint mission overseeing the disarmament said Tuesday. "A first quantity of priority chemical materials was moved from two sites to the port of Latakia for verification and was then loaded onto a Danish commercial vessel today," the mission said in a statement. It ... more |  |
Rouhani defends Iran nuclear deal against hardliners Tehran (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani defended Tuesday a landmark nuclear deal with world powers that promises modest sanctions relief, saying his government did not fear "the few" domestic critics. Rouhani's defence came after repeated criticism by hardliners in parliament and the powerful Revolutionary Guards of the deal clinched in November that also requires Iran to curb temporarily parts of i ... more |  |
Japan scrambles jets against China plane Tokyo (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Japan scrambled fighter jets on Tuesday to head off a Chinese government plane flying towards disputed islands in the East China Sea, Tokyo's defence ministry said. It is the first such incident to be announced by the ministry since China created its new air defence identification zone (ADIZ) in November last year, which has stoked tensions in the region. The Chinese Y-12 propeller plan ... more |  |
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