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Iran’s atomic chief has warned that Tehran needs only five days to ramp up its uranium enrichment to 20 percent, a level at which the material could be used for a nuclear weapon. The comments by Ali Akbar Salehi to Iranian state television on Tuesday followed repeated threats by US President Donald Trump to renegotiate or walk away from a historic 2015 nuclear deal. “If there is a plan for a react
Japan resisting frustrated U.S. lobbying for South Sudan arms embargo
Jikany Nuer White Army fighters holds their weapons in Upper Nile State, South Sudan February 10, 2014. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - After threatening South Sudan with a U.N. arms embargo to encourage steps toward peace, the United States wants to impose the measure, but the 15-member Security Council is split and Washington cannot even con
南スーダンは大量虐殺前夜
＜民族間の対立激化で全国的な戦乱拡大は必至。ＰＫＯ増派も武器禁輸もやるだけ無駄なのか＞（写真：南スーダン独立の立役者となったスーダン人民解放軍〔ＳＰＬＡ〕は今や新たな戦闘に忙しい） 南スーダンの政治・治安情勢は著しく悪化しており、組織的なジェノサイド（大量虐殺）の危険性が高まっている――。国連安全保障理事会の専門家パネルがそう警告したのは、先月半ばのこと。これを受け、ついにアメリカは南スーダンへの武器禁輸決議に向けて動き出した。 だがそれも、もはや手遅れかもしれない。11年に誕生した南スーダンでは、３年前に内戦が勃発。国外から入ってきた大量の武器や弾薬が、政府軍はもとより反政府組織や市民の間にも行き渡り、12月の乾季を前に戦乱拡大は必至の状況になっているのだ。 これに対してアメリカのオバマ政権の対応は迷走している。ジュネーブの国連人権理事会に派遣されているキース・ハーパー大使は先月末、「南
Iran says Gulf worried about war risks with Trump
FILE PHOTO - Iranian Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan delivers a speech as he attends the 5th Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS) in Moscow, Russia, April 27, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin Acquire Licensing Rights DUBAI (Reuters) - Donald Trump's election has led to unease over threats to peace in the region, Iran's defence minister said on Sunday, warning that a war would destroy
U.S. military strikes Yemen after missile attacks on U.S. Navy ship
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military launched cruise missile strikes on Thursday to knock out three coastal radar sites in areas of Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi forces, retaliating after failed missile attacks this week on a U.S. Navy destroyer, U.S. officials said. The strikes, authorized by President Barack Obama, represent Washington’s first direct military action against suspect
US launches ‘retaliatory’ strikes on Yemen radar sites
US navy bombs three radar sites controlled by Houthis after it says its warship came under missile attacks. Missiles were allegedly fired at the US Navy destroyer USS Mason earlier this week [EPA] The US military has launched cruise missile strikes to knock out three coastal radar sites in areas of Yemen controlled by Houthi rebel forces, in retaliation for missile attacks at its Navy ship. Thursd
Obama's Former Middle East Adviser: We Should Have Bombed Assad
U.S. President Barack Obama leaves the Oval Office upon his departure from the White House in Washington for his trip to Saudi Arabia (Carlos Barria / Reuters) A couple of weeks ago, I was talking with Philip Gordon, who held the Middle East portfolio at the National Security Council from 2013 to 2015 (and before that, served as assistant secretary of state for European affairs) about my Atlantic
Inside the CIA’s covert drone war
From drone operators to strike victims, we examine the impact of remote-controlled killing and the future of warfare. Read more Editor’s note: This film is no longer available online. Filmmaker: Tonje Hessen Schei Keep reading list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4What could the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling mean for US foreign policy?list 2 of 4Ukrainian maritime attack on Black Sea port Novorossiysk repel
Now Pyongyang has nothing to lose
New UN resolution doesn’t make the Korean Peninsula more secure and does not remove the nuclear threat. Andrei Lankov is professor of Korean Studies at Kookmin University, Seoul. He is the author of "The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia". Last Monday the North Korean government told the world that we should ready ourselves for a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula
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