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| January 13, 2014 |
 Japan vows defence as China ships near disputed isles Tokyo (AFP) Jan 12, 2014 - Japan's defence minister vowed Sunday to defend the country's territory as three Chinese government ships entered disputed waters off Tokyo-controlled islands in the East China Sea, the first such incident this year. The Chinese coastguard vessels sailed into the 12-nautical-mile territorial waters at about 8:30 am (2330 GMT Saturday) off one of the Senkaku islands, which China also claims a ... more |  |
 Deal curbing Iran nuclear drive to take effect Jan 20 Tehran (AFP) Jan 13, 2014 - A landmark deal that curbs parts of Iran's disputed nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief will take effect from January 20, Tehran and Western powers said Sunday. US President Barack Obama welcomed the news, but warned there was still a rough road ahead to clinch a comprehensive deal. Western nations and Israel have long suspected Iran of pursuing a nuclear weapons capabilit ... more |  |
Iran to get first $550 mn of blocked funds in February Washington (AFP) Jan 12, 2014 - Iran will get a first installment around February 1 of $550 million of $4.2 billion being unblocked under a six-month landmark nuclear deal with the West, a US official said Sunday. "The installment schedule starts on Feb. 1 and the payments are evenly distributed" across 180 days, a senior US administration official told AFP. "That means the installment payments are every 34 days, excep ... more |  |
Rodman 'sorry' after controversial North Korea trip Beijing (AFP) Jan 13, 2014 - An emotional Dennis Rodman appeared to break down Monday as he apologised on his return from a controversial trip to North Korea, where he sang "Happy Birthday" to regime leader Kim Jong-Un. The former NBA star was widely criticised for refusing to bring up human rights abuses or the plight of a US missionary detained in North Korea during his week-long visit, but said he would return again ... more |  |
 UN chief in Iraq for talks on Syria war Baghdad (AFP) Jan 13, 2014 - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Baghdad Monday for talks with senior Iraqi officials on the war in neighbouring Syria, as Iraq grapples with its own deadly crisis. Ban, whose arrival was confirmed by Iraqi state television and the UN's official Twitter feed, was due to meet Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari. The talks were to concentrate on the ... more |  |
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US, Russia call for 'local ceasefires' ahead of Syria talks Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2014 - US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Monday called for "localised ceasefires" in Syria ahead of peace talks later this month in Switzerland. Lavrov and UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi also said Damascus ally Iran should take part in the so-called Geneva II talks due to start in Montreux on January 22, after a meeting in Paris. "We talked toda ... more |  |
Yemen tribes kill 4 soldiers in fresh anti-army attack Aden (AFP) Jan 12, 2014 - Armed tribesmen attacked an army post in southeast Yemen on Sunday and killed four soldiers in the latest assault targeting security forces in the area since December, a military official said. The attack took place near Shahr in Hadramawt province, which has been hit by protests against the central government since last month, after the army killed tribal chief Said Ben Habrish and his body ... more |  |
Kalashnikov repented killings in letter to Church: report Moscow (AFP) Jan 13, 2014 - Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the legendary AK-47 assault rifle, turned to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church shortly before his death to express fears he was personally guilty for those it killed. Kalashnikov, who died in December at the age of 94, in April wrote a lengthy emotional letter to Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, Izvestia, a pro-Kremlin daily, reported on Monday ... more |  |
 New German defence minister eyes more family-friendly army Berlin (AFP) Jan 12, 2014 - Germany's new defence minister wants to create a more family-friendly army by making it easier for soldiers to work part-time and extending childcare, she told a Sunday newspaper. "My goal is to make the German armed forces into one of the most attractive employers in Germany," Ursula von der Leyen, Germany's first female defence minister, said. "In doing so, the most important issue is ... more |  |
China general's daughter sorry over Cultural Revolution death Beijing (AFP) Jan 13, 2014 - The daughter of a top Chinese Communist Party official has apologised over the killing of one of her teachers, the latest former Red Guard to express remorse for the horrors of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, state media said Monday. Song Binbin's father Song Renqiong was a powerful general and one of the Communist Party's "Eight Immortals", and she herself was a leader of the revolutionar ... more |  |
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 Iraq must address 'root causes' of unrest: UN's Ban Baghdad (AFP) Jan 13, 2014 - Iraqi leaders should address the underlying causes of a protracted surge in violence plaguing the country, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday during a visit to Baghdad. "I would urge the leaders of the country ... to address the root causes of the problems," Ban said. "They should ensure that there is nobody left behind. There should be political cohesion" and "social cohesi ... more |  |
Iraq violence kills 34 as Anbar employees back to work Ramadi, Iraq (AFP) Jan 12, 2014 - Nationwide violence killed 34 people on Sunday while civil servants west of Baghdad returned to work under tight security with Iraqi forces locked in a deadly two-week standoff with militants. Gunmen and security forces clashed west and south of Baghdad, while bombings and shootings struck the capital and in northern Iraq, areas that have all borne the brunt of a months-long surge in bloodsh ... more |  |
White House won't predict Iran sanctions vote Washington (AFP) Jan 10, 2014 - The White House declined Friday to renew its previous prediction that a Senate bill slapping new sanctions on Iran, which it fears could scupper nuclear talks, would not pass the Senate. President Barack Obama's spokesman Jay Carney did deliver a new warning, however, that the bill would be detrimental to the drive to resolve the nuclear showdown with Tehran short of war. "I think that w ... more |  |
 Taiwan ex-colonel gets life term for spying for China Taipei (AFP) Jan 10, 2014 - A former Taiwanese air force officer was sentenced to life in prison for spying for China, a court said Friday, adding to a string of spying scandals in recent years. Lieutenant Colonel Yuan Hsiao-feng was convicted on 12 accounts of leaking confidential military information to China between 2003 and 2007, the supreme court said. Yuan handed the secrets to China via retired colleague C ... more |  |
 Killing of boy, 4, by US troops frays Afghan ties further Kabul (AFP) Jan 10, 2014 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday condemned US troops for killing a four-year-old boy in the southern province of Helmand, in a fresh strain to troubled relations between Washington and Kabul. Helmand governor Naeem Baloch told Karzai during a meeting in Kabul about the shooting, which comes as the US and Afghanistan wrangle over a deal to allow some US troops to remain in the country ... more |  |
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 Senior Pakistan anti-terrorist chief dies in car bomb attack Karachi, Pakistan (UPI) Jan 10, 2013 - The head of Karachi's police anti-terrorist division was killed along with three other policemen by a car bomb in the Essa Nagri area of the city. Several policemen also were injured in the blast that targeted the car of Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam, chief of the crime investigation department of Sindh Police. Aslam's car was destroyed in the late afternoon blast after a suicide bombe ... more |  |
Iraq, Syria tests Obama's Mideast logic Washington (AFP) Jan 11, 2014 - An Al-Qaeda surge and Sunni-Shiite tumult spanning Iraq and Syria are testing eroded US influence and the logic of a foreign policy built on antipathy to Middle East entanglements. The return of jihadists to cities like Fallujah and Ramadi, fabled battlefields for US soldiers, has left President Barack Obama facing charges he pulled troops home too soon from Iraq and squandered American sacr ... more |  |
Iran defends development of advanced centrifuges Tehran (AFP) Jan 11, 2014 - Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi on Saturday defended Tehran's "right" to carry out research on advanced centrifuges, media reported. Iran and world powers agreed Friday on how to implement a landmark deal reached in November on containing Tehran's nuclear programme, but it must still be approved by each country before it can take effect. "Advanced centrifuges, which are Iran's righ ... more |  |
CAE producing systems for U.S., Denmark and Mexico Montreal (UPI) Jan 9, 2013 - Canadian simulation and training systems company CAE reports $101.8 million new military contracts. The customers include the U.S. Navy, the Royal Danish Navy - through a U.S. Foreign Military Sales contract - and Beechcraft, which is providing a T-6 flight simulator to the Mexican Air Force. "CAE is a skilled and experienced training systems integrator with the proven capability ... more | |
 Kongsberg to upgrade Australia's Protector stations Canberra, Australia (UPI) Jan 10, 2013 - Kongsberg has won a $15.1 million deal to upgrade all 59 of Australia's Protector M151 remote weapons stations for light armored vehicles. The Australian Defense Force purchased the stations from the Norwegian weapons systems supplier in 2004 for delivery in a several year period. The equipment was part of a rapid acquisition to ready Australia's light armored vehicle fleet for d ... more |  |
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