Russia Says It Will Ship Missiles to Syria
Foreign Minister’s Confirmation Comes After Top U.S. and U.K. Officials Visited Moscow to Make Case for Peace
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The Peshawar High Court on Thursday described the American drone strikes in the country’s restive tribal regions as illegal and inhuman and instructed the Foreign Ministry to move a resolution in the United Nations against the attacks.
The court issued the landmark verdict against the American strikes on four writ petitions, who had stated that these attacks kill civilians and also cause collateral damage.
American officials claim that the CIA-run drone mission [...] Egypt has withdrawn from Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) talks in Geneva in protest over the failure of the international community to implement a resolution for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons. On Monday, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying the country ended its participation in the two-week talks over other nations’ failure to implement the 1995 resolution, which calls for the creation of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region. “We can’t [...] “Without Mentioning North Korea, a Chinese Call to Avoid ‘Chaos’ BOAO, China — In an indirect but clear reference to the North Korean crisis, China’s president, Xi Jinping, said Sunday that world peace should not be put at risk because of a single country. “No one should be allowed to throw a region and even the whole world into chaos for selfish gain,” Mr. Xi said in a speech at an annual regional [...] HONG KONG — China congratulated Pope Francis on Thursday on his ascension to the papacy, but also warned the Vatican not to interfere in what China deems to be its internal affairs. The reaction underscored the tensions between the Vatican and China’s government, which has been accused of suppressing Catholicism under Communist rule. Hua Chunying, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said that Beijing hoped the pope, who was elected on Wednesday, would work with Chinese [...] from FT:
“[Hugo] Chávez was an outstanding leader of Venezuela, and a good friend of the Chinese people,” noted China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday. Whatever personal sorrow might be felt in Beijing this week, China’s regret at the strongman’s passing is founded largely on worries over the future of economic relations with his government. Those relations have grown considerably in recent years. According to Matt Ferchen, a scholar at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center [...] It is always enlightening to hear the frank assessment of a diplomat upon leaving the service, once unshackled from “the patriotic art of lying for one’s country”, as 19th Century American journalist Ambrose Bierce described the craft. Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos was a career diplomat with the Greek foreign ministry. As a junior officer with the service in the 1970s, he helped assure the then freshly democratic nation’s accession to the European Union [...] United States intelligence agencies recently detected China’s military shifting road-mobile ballistic missiles closer to its southern coast near the disputed Senkaku Islands amid growing tensions between Beijing and Japan over the islands dispute. U.S. defense officials said the movements are being watched closely as China’s military is also holding large-scale military exercises that some fear could be a trigger for a conflict with Japan that could involve U.S. forces. http://freebeacon.com/beijing-war-prep/ Chinese buoys placed [...] North Korea warns of “stronger” actions after nuclear test The country’s Foreign Ministry warns of unspecified “second and third measures” after the nuclear test, according to AP. North Korean Foreign Ministry warns of unspecified ’2nd and 3rd measures’ after nuclear test - @AP https://twitter.com/BreakingNews Pyongyang suggests it will conduct additional nuclear tests should the US react with hostility, Yonhap News Agency reports http://rt.com/news/korea-north-nuclear-test-989/
The Chinese regime’s Foreign Ministry has told the US it must be “cautious” over what is said and done over Japan and China’s islands dispute. The comments by spokesman Hong Lei follows a meeting between US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and Japanese Foreign Minister, Fumio Kishida last Friday. Clinton stated Japan has administrative rights to the Diaoyu Islands, called Senkaku is Japan. Clinton did not go so far as to say [...] SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has repaired flood damage at its nuclear test facility and could conduct a quick atomic explosion if it chose, though water streaming out of a test tunnel may cause problems, analysis of recent satellite photos indicates. Washington and others are bracing for the possibility that if punished for a successful long-range rocket launch on Dec. 12 that the U.N. considers a cover for a [...] The danger that Syrian ruler Bashar Assad will now resort to chemical warfare shot up Saturday afternoon, Dec. 8, after the rebels captured the “chloride factory” at Al Safira east of Aleppo. This is a codename for the Syrian army’s biggest chemical weapons store and base, which also houses Syrian Scud D missiles armed with chemical warheads adjusted to fire at Israel. Assad’s warning to the rebels not to fight [...] CAIRO — Egypt asked the United States on Thursday to immediately intervene to stop the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, warning that the violence could spiral “out of control,” the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. Egypt “will stand with all of its resources to end this aggression and to stop the recurring killing and bloodshed of Palestinians,” President Mohamed Morsi said on national television. “The Israelis must understand that we [...] BEIJING (AP) — A car carrying the U.S. ambassador to China was mildly damaged after becoming the target of boisterous anti-Japan demonstrators who were expressing outrage over a territorial dispute and marking the 81st anniversary of Japan’s invasion ofChina. The State Department said in a statement Wednesday thatAmbassador Gary Locke was unhurt in Tuesday’s incident, and that diplomats have expressed concerns to the Chinese Foreign Ministry. The statement said around 50 protesters surrounded [...]
Stronger Chinese Navy Worries Neighbors and US China and the US seem to be on a collision course in the Pacific. Beijing is significantly bolstering its navy, and Washington is shifting its military focus to the Asia-Pacific Region. Many fear it could alter the balance of power in a region rich in oil and crucial for global trade. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/strengthening-of-chinese-navy-sparks-worries-in-region-and-beyond-a-855622.html
Japan’s new ambassador to China died this morning following an unspecified illness, the Foreign [...] BEIJING?A Chinese official suggested the country was willing to risk a “minor conflict” over its territorial dispute with Japan, saying it was prepared to chase off Japan Coast Guard vessels from waters around the Senkaku Islands. The statement follows an announcement by China’s foreign ministry Sept. 14 that it has submitted a sea chart to the United Nations showing the waters as its territorial sea. Yu Zhirong, a senior official of the [...] Saudi Arabia has urged its citizens to leave Lebanon “immediately” after a string of kidnappings in the country. The Saudi embassy in Beirut cited the “reported threats to kidnap Saudi citizens” in Lebanon, which borders Syria, state-run Spa news agency said. Earlier, a clan in Lebanon said it had abducted a number of Syrians who belonged to the rebel Free Syrian Army. It said this was in retaliation for the kidnapping of [...] In Beijing, China’s state-run media ramped up its condemnation of the US over territorial disputes in the South China Sea, with the country’s top newspaper going so far as to tell Washington to “shut up” on the subject. The tirade was in reaction to America’s State Department, which on Friday said it was closely monitoring increased tensions in the South China Sea and was concerned over China’s setting up of a [...] From FT: Syria has publicly admitted for the first time that it possesses chemical and biological weapons, adding to international concern that its stocks could fall into the hands of militant groups as the country’s civil war intensifies. As fierce fighting continued on Monday in Damascus and Aleppo, a foreign ministry representative, told a press conference that “any chemical or bacterial weapon will never be used – and I repeat will never be [...] SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A bomb exploded on a bus carrying Israeli youth in a Bulgarian resort Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding 32, officials said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it “an Iranian terror attack” and promised a tough response. The explosion took place in the Black Sea city of Burgas, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of the capital, Sofia. TV images showed smoke billowing from [...] Women make up almost one-third of the IDF and 50% of its officers In a bid to promote tourism in 2007, Israel’s Foreign Ministry backed a public relations campaign showing former female soldiers in bikinis on its beaches Standing confidently on the beach, with a rifle casually slung over her shoulder, you would think [...] Gustavo Valdes and Catherine E. Shoichet Mexico’s foreign ministry has accused a U.S. border patrol agent of fatally shooting a Mexican citizen over the weekend. The shooting occurred near the bridge that connects Brownsville, Texas, with the Mexican town of Matamoros, the foreign ministry said Sunday in a statement condemning the violence. The ministry said a Mexican national died after being shot by the U.S. agent, but did not release details [...] via Forbes: Brazil, Russia, India and China, the BRIC countries, are back to talking about creating a unified financial system where they can avoid euro and dollar volatility. This time, a pooling of Central Bank dollars from the countries in case liquidity dried up as the world tracks the West’s crisis momentum. Regardless of the amount of difficulty involved, the big four emerging markets plus South Africa said earlier this week they [...] VOA News The United States has no plans to curtail drone attacks on Pakistani soil, saying its right to target terrorist leaders “is about our sovereignty.” U.S. Defense secretary Leon Panetta issued the defense of the strikes Wednesday, during a visit to New Delhi. He said Washington has always made it very clear that it will defend itself, and that the strikes also benefit the Pakistani people who are often [...] |
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