Ousted Spanish government plotted to derail EU fishing reforms
Leaked document seen by the Guardian reveals former socialist government's plans, while new administration will face pressure from Fish Fight campaign and EU fisheries commissioner
With the incoming Spanish government yet to show its hand over the EU's proposed fishing reforms, a leaked document has shown that the previous administration was planning to derail the plans.
But according to a secret government document seen by the Guardian, Spain's previous administration was plotting a last-ditch attempt to bring down the reforms, and allow Spanish fishermen to continue throwing away edible fish as they have been doing so for decades
Libya's leader warns of civil war after Tripoli gun battles
Fighting between rival militias leaves seven dead as head of interim government pleas for calm
The head of Libya's interim government warned yesterday that the country could descend into civil war after rival militias fought gun battles in the centre of the capital, Tripoli, leaving a trail of dead and injured.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil spoke of the dangers posed by continuous lawlessness of private armies while the draft regulations for the first parliamentary elections scheduled for later this year were being published.
Immediate executions follow 15 death sentences in China
The Irish Times - Thursday, January 5, 2012
CLIFFORD COONAN in Beijing
ON THURSDAY morning last week, a court in the city of Changsha held a mass sentencing in the gymnasium of Hunan University, with 15 people condemned to death for a range of serious crimes, including a man who bombed a tax office in the city.
The criminals were all taken from the university to the execution grounds and executed immediately after sentencing, an extraordinary series of pictures on the Chinese Netease service shows.
While the reports do not specify how they died, with such a large number of condemned, it is most likely they were shot.
North Korea military has an edge over South, but wouldn't win a war, study finds
A South Korean think tank gave North Korea the edge in the early days of any war with the South because of its numbers and offensive position.
North Korea's military strategy is superior to the defensive posture of its affluent neighbor to the South, an independent think-tank said on Wednesday, giving Pyongyang the edge in the early days of any war on the divided peninsula.
The Seoul-based Korea Economic Research Institute said in a report that in 2011 North Korea operated a 1.02-million-strong army and a record number of tanks, warships and air defense artillery. Total military personnel strength is 1.2 million.
"The depressing reality is it would not be entirely wrong to say North Korea's military strength is stronger," the institute said.
In new strategy, Panetta plans even smaller army
Defense secretary will unveil plan to cut billions from defense budget
By THOM SHANKER and ELISABETH BUMILLER
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has concluded that the Army has to shrink even below current targets, dropping to 490,000 soldiers over the next decade, but that the United States should not cut any of its 11 aircraft carriers, according to Pentagon officials and military analysts briefed on the secretary’s budget proposals.
Mr. Panetta is to disclose the strategy guiding hundreds of billions of dollars in Pentagon budget cuts during an unusual Defense Department news conference on Thursday, when President Obama is to appear in the Pentagon briefing room and make remarks ahead of those by Mr. Panetta and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mr. Obama has never before briefed reporters at the Pentagon, and administration officials said they did not know of any president who had.
Paws 'Dogcam' aids search-and-rescue with canine tech
5 January 2012
The first thing you remember is that the floor was trembling and the ceiling cracked - could it have been an earthquake?
You look around and see things from your house in unusual places. Floorboards are strewn about you and your bed is at ninety degrees, trapping your legs.
Suddenly the friendly face of a dog weaves through the rubble and licks your face. It barks, then a human voice asks if you are OK.
This is not a hallucination, Narnia, or your first taste of the afterlife.
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