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| January 23, 2014 |
 Japan tells world to stand up to China or face consequences Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - Japan on Wednesday told the world it must stand up to an increasingly assertive China or risk a regional conflict with catastrophic economic consequences. In a landmark speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued what amounted to an appeal for international support in a potentially explosive dispute with its superpower neighbour over islands in the ... more |  |
Outside View: Bob Gates' 'Duty' Washington (UPI) Jan 22, 2013 - Last week's release of Bob Gates' "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War" was preceded by his publisher's brilliant public relations campaign hyping the book with tantalizingly provocative excerpts. The brouhaha over the propriety of the timing of the book's release while Gates' former boss, U.S. President Barack Obama, was still in office and the dramatic excerpts especially the criticis ... more |  |
 US Pacific fleet chief says N. Korea is top security concern Singapore (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - North Korea remains Washington's "number one security concern" in Asia, the US Pacific Fleet commander said Wednesday, despite simmering territorial disputes elsewhere in the region. Admiral Harry B. Harris Jr also expressed concern over "coercion" by China in its maritime disputes with neighbours. He said an increased deployment of US military assets in the region as part of an Asian r ... more |  |
China leaders' kin stash riches in offshore tax havens: probe Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - Relatives of top Chinese leaders including President Xi Jinping and former premier Wen Jiabao have used offshore tax havens to hide their wealth, according to a mammoth investigation released Wednesday. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), citing information culled from 2.5 million leaked documents, said that Xi's brother-in-law and Wen's son and son-in-law were ... more |  |
 Key Pakistani cleric quits Taliban peace talks Islamabad (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - A Pakistani cleric with close ties to the Taliban said Wednesday he would no longer act as a government-backed peace broker with the militants after airstrikes killed 40 people in a tribal district. Sami Ul Haq, who heads the hardline Dar-ul-Uloom Haqqania seminary and is often referred to as the "Father of the Taliban", was given the task of initiating peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban ... more |  |
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 Syria meet a 'day of hope', sides must seize 'enormous opportunity': Ban Montreux, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged Syria's warring sides to seize the opportunity to resolve their conflict, as he opened a peace conference in Switzerland. "After nearly three painful years of conflict and suffering in Syria, today is a day of hope," Ban said. "You have an enormous opportunity and responsiblity to render a service to the people of Syria." The UN chief urged the wa ... more |  |
 Iraq PM calls for 'stand' against Anbar militants Baghdad (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - Iraq's prime minister called Wednesday for residents of restive Anbar province to "take a stand" against anti-government fighters, as air strikes were said to have killed 50 militants. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's call came as government forces pressed an offensive against militants, including those affiliated with the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who overr ... more |  |
 Al-Qaida wages assassination war against Yemen's spy services Sanaa, Yemen (UPI) Jan 22, 2013 - Dozens of top intelligence and military officers have been assassinated in recent months in a savage campaign widely attributed to jihadists while complex attacks have been conducted against key military installations, all indicating al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is still a force with which to be reckoned. The group, considered the most dangerous of al-Qaida's affiliates from the ba ... more |  |
Maldives rejects military pact with US Colombo (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - The Maldives has decided not to take part in a proposed military cooperation pact with the United States over fears that it could upset the regional power India, senior officials said Wednesday. Speaking on a visit to Sri Lanka, the atoll nation's new President Abdulla Yameen said he did not want to proceed with the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that would have given the US a foothold in ... more |  |
 S. Korea vows harsh penalties for data leaks Seoul (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - South Korean regulators Wednesday vowed harsh corporate penalties for data theft, as angry customers swamped credit card offices for a third day after 20 million people had their financial information stolen. "If an incident like this happens again, the company in question will be shut and its executives will no longer be able to work in this industry," Shin Je-Yoon, the head of the Financia ... more |  |
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China censors may have caused huge Internet outage: group Beijing (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - China's Internet suffered a massive breakdown as traffic was routed to an overseas site linked to the banned religious group Falun Gong - a fiasco a cyber-monitoring group Wednesday blamed on the country's own censors. Web users in the country - which tightly restricts Internet access - had trouble accessing numerous sites for about an hour on Tuesday afternoon, said Greatfire.org, which ... more |  |
Slovenia frees hacker despite US extradition order Ljubljana (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - A Slovenian higher court on Wednesday rejected an United States extradition request and released a Romanian citizen charged with hacking into NASA computers in 2006. Maribor's higher court rejected the extradition request taking into account that Romanian citizen Victor Faur could not be tried again for the same charges for which he had already been sentenced in Romania in 2008 to 16 months ... more |  |
Colombian forces up heat on FARC despite peace talks Bogota (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - Colombia has stepped up its offensive against FARC rebels, killing 21 in only three days, though the government on Tuesday defended peace talks still under way in Havana. "The military offensive (against the guerrillas) continues at full strength until we reach agreements, as if there were no negotiations at all," President Juan Manuel Santos said on a visit to Madrid. A flurry of operat ... more |  |
Germany IT watchdog knew for weeks of mass cyber theft Berlin (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - Germany's cyber crime watchdog said Wednesday it learnt last month of the mass theft of 16 million digital identities through a criminal probe but needed weeks before alerting the public. The website of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) had buckled Tuesday under an onslaught of requests by millions of worried online users soon after the warning was issued. By Wednesday mo ... more |  |
EU warns Israel, Palestinians of 'price to pay' if talks fail Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - A top European Union official warned on Wednesday that both Israel and the Palestinians would have a "price to pay" if US-led peace talks collapse. Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, the EU's ambassador to Israel, also rebuffed charges by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Europe was showing a pro-Palestinian bias. And he warned that persistent Israeli constru ... more |  |
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 More defense cuts seen likely as Canada tightens its budget belt Ottawa (UPI) Jan 21, 2013 - More Canadian defense cuts are in the cards after the government's cancellation of a $2 billion close combat vehicle program, industry analysts and defense media say. Backing away from the purchase of the close combat vehicles is the first major equipment casualty of ongoing budget reductions, with industry officials expecting other procurement projects to be delayed or cut, Defense New ... more |  |
US weighs 10,000 troops in Afghanistan, or none Washington (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - US military leaders have proposed keeping 10,000 troops in Afghanistan after NATO's combat mission ends in December - or else pull out all American forces, a US official said Wednesday. The official said that the commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, General Joseph Dunford, presented the option last week to the White House, which is weighin ... more |  |
China plans new patrol in disputed South China Sea: media Beijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - China will set up new civilian patrols with a 5,000-tonne vessel in the disputed South China Sea, state-run media said on Tuesday, in another move that could inflame territorial disputes. Beijing claims much of the waters and has put a vast swathe of it under the administration of Sansha city, in the contested Paracel islands, which also hosts a military garrison. Local authorities will ... more |  |
Outside View: Iranian fund should compensate, not create more, victims Herndon, Va. (UPI) Jan 21, 2013 - On Feb. 1, the memory of the deaths of 241 U.S. military personnel slaughtered in the Oct. 23, 1983, Beirut bombing of the Marine Barracks will be dealt a slap in the face by an Obama administration that still doesn't get it. Barack Obama, never having served in uniform, fails to understand the insensitivity of a decision he made, to take effect Feb. 1 and the message it conveys to vict ... more |  |
Iraq presses Qaeda offensive, UN warns on displaced Baghdad (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Iraqi forces pressed their attack on anti-government fighters holding parts of a city Tuesday as the UN warned of an "exponential rise" in displacement with 22,000 families having fled their homes. Violence elsewhere killed 10 people, bringing to 700 the number killed in nationwide unrest this month, fuelling fears Iraq is slipping back into the all-out conflict that left tens of thousands d ... more |  |
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