DTN News: Asia News - Headlines

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Source: DTN News - - World Continent Headlines compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 26, 2010: DTN News are providing on a trial basis a comprehensive World Continent Headlines news for viewers choice and to read complete article/story, please click on link respectively;

• Leaks provide ground-level account of Afghan war

  AP – 17 mins ago
  

  WASHINGTON - Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures.

• Khmer Rouge prison chief handed 30 years in prison

  AFP – 27 mins ago
  

  PHNOM PENH (AFP) - A UN-backed war crimes court on Monday sentenced a former Khmer Rouge prison chief to 30 years in prison for his role in Cambodia's "Killing Fields" atrocities in the late 1970s.

• Khmer Rouge's chief jailer guilty of war crimes

  AP – 29 mins ago

  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal sentenced the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer Monday to 35 years in prison — the first verdict involving a leader of the genocidal regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodia's people.

• Indian pitches no help for Ashes buildup - press

  AFP – 35 mins ago
  

  SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia face a less than ideal preparation for this year's home Ashes series with a two-Test series on unhelpful pitches in India, the Australian press said on Monday.

• Sri Lanka bat against India in second Test

  AFP – 43 mins ago
  

  COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and elected to bat in the second cricket Test against India at the Sinhalese Sports Club on Monday.

• Taliban say they're holding U.S. soldier and second killed

  Reuters – 43 mins ago
  

  KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban said on Sunday they were holding prisoner one of two U.S. soldiers who strayed into territory controlled by the insurgents, and that the other had been killed.

• Khmer Rouge prison chief sentenced to 35 years in jail

  Reuters – 47 mins ago
  

  PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A U.N.-backed tribunal sentenced a senior member of the Khmer Rouge to 35 years in prison on Monday in its first verdict three decades after the Maoist "Killing Fields" revolution tore Cambodia apart.

• Japan's exports rise for seventh straight month

  AP – 58 mins ago
  

  TOKYO - Japan's exports rose for the seventh straight month in June, driven by machinery and steel products, indicating that overseas demand continues to underpin recovery in the world's No. 2 economy even amid a stronger yen.

• Khmer Rouge prison chief given 30 years in prison

  AFP – 1 hr 1 min ago
  

  PHNOM PENH (AFP) - A former Khmer Rouge prison chief was handed a 30-year prison sentence Monday by a UN-backed war crimes court for his role in atrocities committed under the regime in the late 1970s.

• U.S. says Afghan war will get worse

  Reuters – 1 hr 16 mins ago
  

  KABUL (Reuters) - More NATO troops will die fighting in Afghanistan this summer, a top U.S. military officer said, as a new report emerged implicating Pakistan for actively collaborating with the insurgency while accepting U.S. aid.

• US holds drills off Korea as Pyongyang talks war

  AP – 1 hr 24 mins ago
  

  ABOARD USS GEORGE WASHINGTON - U.S. and South Korean warships and helicopters practiced anti-submarine maneuvers off the Korean peninsula Monday, readying defenses against the kind of weapon that allegedly sank a South Korean navy vessel earlier this year.

• Pakistan's woes compounded by severe water crisis

  AP – 1 hr 41 mins ago

  ISLAMABAD - Besides grappling with insurgents, suicide bombers and deep poverty, Pakistan is facing a severe crisis as a ballooning population and inefficient farming combine to reduce the availability of water.

DTN News: Middle East News - Headlines

Defense News: DTN News: Middle East News - Headlines

Source: DTN News - - World Continent Headlines compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 26, 2010: DTN News are providing on a trial basis a comprehensive World Continent Headlines news for viewers choice and to read complete article/story, please click on link respectively;

• Al-Qaida kills 6 Yemeni soldiers

  AP – 11 mins ago

  SAN'A, Yemen - A Yemeni security official says six soldiers were killed in an al-Qaida attack on a patrol in the southern province of Shabwa.

• Iraqi forces still frail as US troops head home

  AP – 2 hrs 9 mins ago
  

  MOSUL, Iraq - When the U.S. ends its combat mission in Iraq five weeks from now, the nation's safety will be in the hands of its homegrown, American-trained security forces. The army is almost up to the job, the police are hit-and-miss, and the Kurdish militia is nowhere close to ready.

• Al-Qaida in N. Africa says French hostage killed

  AP – Sun Jul 25, 3:53 pm ET

  CAIRO - The leader of al-Qaida's offshoot in North Africa said in a message broadcast Sunday that the group has killed a French engineer taken hostage in Niger in April.

• Abbas says entire world wants direct Mideast talks

  AP – Sun Jul 25, 7:04 am ET
  

  RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that despite intense international pressure from the "entire world," he is still not willing to start direct negotiations with Israel.

• Petrochemical factory blast kills 4 in Iran

  AP – Sun Jul 25, 3:38 am ET

  TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's official news agency says an explosion at a petrochemical factory on Iran's largest oil terminal has killed four people.

• Saudi: OK to uncover face in anti-burqa countries

  AP – Sat Jul 24, 8:12 pm ET
  

  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A popular Saudi cleric said Saturday it is permissible for Muslim women to reveal their faces in countries where the Islamic veil is banned to avoid harassment, while deploring the effort to outlaw the garment in France.

• Iran says it has 100 vessels for each US warship

  AP – Sat Jul 24, 11:34 am ET

  TEHRAN, Iran - The former naval chief for Iran's Revolutionary Guard said the country has set aside 100 military vessels to confront each warship from the U.S. or any other foreign power that might pose a threat, an Iranian newspaper reported Saturday.

• Egypt's president not attending Africa summit

  AP – Sat Jul 24, 7:32 am ET

  CAIRO - Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak will not go to the African Union summit in Uganda despite officials earlier citing his planned attendance as proof of his good health, the state media reported Saturday.

• Iran studies building nuclear fusion reactor

  AP – Sat Jul 24, 5:57 am ET
  

  TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's nuclear agency began studies Saturday to build an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, something that has yet to be achieved by any nation.

• Ahmadinejad says Russia part of anti-Iran campaign

  AP – Fri Jul 23, 4:18 pm ET

  TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Russia's president on Friday of turning against Tehran and joining the U.S. in spreading lies about its nuclear program, in the latest sign that Iran is drifting apart from a one-time key backer.

• Iran ready for talks on nuclear fuel swap deal: Mottaki

  AFP – Sun Jul 25, 3:24 pm ET

  ISTANBUL (AFP) - Iran is ready to start immediately talks with Western powers over a nuclear fuel swap deal it signed in May, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Sunday.

• Clashes erupt after Yemen says 'no' to new war with rebels

  AFP – Sun Jul 25, 1:06 pm ET
  

  SANAA (AFP) - Fresh clashes erupted on Sunday in north Yemen between Shiite rebels and a government-backed tribe after a 24-hour truce that followed fighting in which dozens of people were killed, a mediator told AFP.

• EU to hammer Iran with oil sanctions

  AFP – Sun Jul 25, 3:23 pm ET
  

  BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union will hit Iran with tough sanctions against its vital oil and gas industry on Monday in a bid to lure Tehran back to the negotiating table over its disputed nuclear programme.

• Israeli warplanes strike Gaza tunnels

  AFP – Sun Jul 25, 10:19 pm ET
  

  GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Israeli planes fired missiles at two smuggling tunnels near the Gaza Strip border with Egypt early Monday, causing damage but no casualties, officials from the Hamas-run security forces said.

• Military action against Iran not worst outcome: ex-CIA chief

  AFP – Sun Jul 25, 3:14 pm ET
  

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - A former CIA director said Sunday he had come around to the view that military action against Iran's nuclear program "may not be the worst of the possible outcomes."

• Iran ready to start talks on nuclear fuel swap deal: Mottaki

  AFP – Sun Jul 25, 1:49 pm ET

  ISTANBUL (AFP) - Iran is ready to start immediately talks with Western powers over a nuclear fuel swap deal it signed in May, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Sunday.

• Iran says nuclear talks after Ramadan

  Reuters – Sun Jul 25, 1:47 pm ET

  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Iran will be ready to hold negotiations with world powers on its nuclear program after the month of Ramadan ends in early September, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday.

• Three killed, including two police, in Iraq blasts

  AFP – Sun Jul 25, 4:32 pm ET
  

  BAGHDAD (AFP) - A spate of bomb attacks in Baghdad and northern Iraq on Sunday killed three people, including two policemen, and wounded 22 others, security officials said.

DTN News: U.S. Aircraft Carrier Leads Drills With South Korea

Defense News: DTN News: U.S. Aircraft Carrier Leads Drills With South Korea

Source: DTN News - - this article / report compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources including AP

(NSI News Source Info) ABOARD USS GEORGE WASHINGTON, - July 25, 2010: A nuclear-powered U.S. supercarrier led an armada of warships in exercises off the Korean peninsula on Sunday that North Korea has vowed to physically block and says could escalate into nuclear war. U.S. military officials said the manoeuvres, conducted with South Korean ships and Japanese observers, were intended to send a strong signal to the North that aggression in the region will not be tolerated.
Tensions on the Korean peninsula have been particularly high since the sinking in March of a South Korean naval vessel. Forty six Korean sailors were killed in the sinking, which Seoul has called Pyongyang’s worst military attack on it since the 1950-53 Korean War.
The military drills, code-named “Invincible Spirit,” are to run through Wednesday with about 8,000 U.S. and South Korean troops, 20 ships and submarines and 200 aircraft. The Nimitz-class USS George Washington was deployed from Japan.
“We are showing our resolve,” said Capt. David Lausman, the carrier’s commanding officer.
North Korea has protested the drills, threatening to retaliate with “nuclear deterrence” and “sacred war.”
The North routinely threatens attacks whenever South Korea and the U.S. hold joint military drills, which Pyongyang sees as a rehearsal for an invasion. The U.S. keeps 28,500 troops in South Korea and another 50,000 in Japan, but says it has no intention of invading the North.
Still, the North’s latest rhetoric carries extra weight following the sinking of the Cheonan.
Capt. Ross Myers, the commander of the carrier’s air wing, said the exercises were not intended to raise tensions, but acknowledged they are meant to get North Korea’s attention.
The George Washington, one of the biggest ships in the U.S. Navy, is a potent symbol of American military power, with about 5,000 sailors and aviators and the capacity to carry up to 70 planes.
“North Korea may contend that it is a provocation, but I would say the opposite,” he said. “It is a provocation to those who don’t want peace and stability. North Korea doesn’t want this. They know that one of South Korea’s strengths is its alliance with the United States.”
He said that North Korea’s threats to retaliate were being taken seriously.
“There is a lot they can do,” he said. “They have ships, they have subs, they have airplanes. They are a credible threat.”
The exercises are the first in a series of U.S.-South Korean manoeuvres to be conducted in the East Sea off South Korea’s east coast and in the Yellow Sea closer to China’s shores in international waters. The exercises also are the first to employ the F-22 stealth fighter — which can evade North Korean air defences — in South Korea.
South Korea was closely monitoring North Korea’s military but spotted no unusual activity Sunday, the Defence Ministry said.
North Korea, which denies any involvement in the sinking of the Cheonan, warned the United States against holding the drills.
“Our military and people will squarely respond to the nuclear war preparation by the American imperialists and the South Korean puppet regime with our powerful nuclear deterrent,” the North’s government-run Minju Joson newspaper said in a commentary Sunday headlined, “We also have nuclear weapons.”
The commentary was carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
The North’s powerful National Defence Commission issued a similar threat Saturday, saying the country “will start a retaliatory sacred war ... based on nuclear deterrent any time necessary in order to counter the U.S.”
The country’s Foreign Ministry separately said on Saturday that Pyongyang is considering “powerful physical measures” in response to the U.S. military drills and sanctions.
Though the impoverished North has a large conventional military and the capability to build nuclear weapons, it is not believed to have the technology needed to use nuclear devices as warheads.
North Korea has been in increasingly difficult diplomatic straits since the Cheonan incident.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced on Wednesday, after visiting the Demilitarised Zone dividing the two Koreas, that the U.S. would slap new sanctions on the North to stifle its nuclear ambitions and punish it for the Cheonan sinking.
On Friday, the European Union said it, too, would consider new sanctions on North Korea.

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