Netanyahu 'not correct' on Iran nuclear talks - Kerry
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US Secretary of State John Kerry has questioned the judgement of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu over his stance on Iran's nuclear programme.
Mr Netanyahu has criticised the US and others for "giving up" on trying to stop Iran obtaining nuclear weapons.
The Israeli PM "may not be correct", Mr Kerry said after attending the latest Iran nuclear talks in Geneva.
Mr Netanyahu will address Congress next week, after an invitation by Republican leaders criticised by the White House.
Mr Kerry was reacting to a speech in which Mr Netanyahu had said the US and others were "accepting that Iran will gradually, within a few years, develop capabilities to produce material for many nuclear weapons".
Paradise jihadis: Maldives sees surge in young Muslims leaving for Syria
In a country better known for tourism than militancy, radical preaching and social problems are prompting a rise in Islamism
They left in small groups, through the narrow lanes of the city, on to the ferry across the glassy blue sea and then, past the tourists waiting for connections to luxury resorts, to the airport. Their ultimate destination:Syria, and the “caliphate” of Islamic State.
The Maldives is better known for luxury tourism than Islamic militancy. But in recent weeks there has been a surge in departures of young men for Syria, raising fears of a growing threat both to the million-plus tourists who visit its 1,200 atolls each year and to countries such as the UK that do not require visas from citizens of the island.
“There are serious concerns,” said one western diplomat in the region. “The risk is either of an attack locally or someone coming to Europe or even going on to the US.”
Czech hub of gun industry stunned by killing of eight
Uhersky Brod’s biggest employer, CZUB, is one of world’s leading firearms firms
In shallow, ragged breaths, Petr Gabriel relates how a chance phone call saved his life. Exactly 24 hours previously the 33 year-old arrived for lunch as usual at the popular “Druzba” canteen in the eastern Czech town of Uhersky Brod.
He headed up the stairs to the first-floor dining hall, where the cheap and hearty lunch specials are popular with locals. He made a split-second decision to turn left to the toilet, while a man brushed past him and turned right into the restaurant.
As Petr took a call from a friend in the toilets, he heard the first shots. “I first thought it was a party or something, then I heard the glass smashing and people crying,” said Mr Gabriel, a local charity worker and church volunteer.
The Warming World: Is Capitalism Destroying Our Planet?
By Alexander Jung, Horand Knaup, Samiha Shafy and Bernhard ZandWorld leaders decided in Copenhagen that global warming should be limited to 2 degrees Celsius. Achieving that target, though, would take nothing less than a miracle. With another round of climate negotiations approaching, it is becoming increasingly clear that mankind has failed to address its most daunting problem.
Humans are full of contradictions, including the urge to destroy things they love. Like our planet. Take Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Like everyone living Down Under, he's extremely proud of his country's wonder of the world, the Great Barrier Reef. At the same time, though, Abbott believes that burning coal is "good for humanity," even though it produces greenhouse gases that ultimately make our world's oceans warmer, stormier and more acidic. In recent years, Australia has exported more coal than any other country in the world. And the reef, the largest living organism on the planet, is dying. Half of the corals that make up the reef are, in fact, already dead.
Could US, Cuba fully restore ties by April Summit of the Americas?
If the United States and Cuba moved fast enough they could reopen embassies in time for the April 10-11 Summit of the Americas. Cuban officials say the US must remove the country from a list of state sponsors of terrorism.
HAVANA/WASHINGTON — Cuba would agree to restore diplomatic relations with the United States in time for the April Summit of the Americas if Washington quickly and convincingly removes the Caribbean country from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, a senior Cuban official said on Wednesday.
Diplomatic ties were severed in 1961, and negotiators for the two longtime adversaries will meet in Washington on Friday, following up on the first round of talks held in Havana last month.
If the sides move fast enough, they could reopen embassies in each other's capitals in time for the April 10-11 summit in Panama, where U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro could meet for the first time since agreeing on Dec. 17 to restore ties and exchange prisoners.
Southeast Asia
Feb 26, '15
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Civilians 'massacred' in Myanmar
By Qiao Long and Kyaw Kyaw Aung
Aid workers in Myanmar's Kokang region near the northeastern border with China cremated large numbers of bodies of civilians in recent days, according to photographs shown to RFA from the scene.
The photos show voluntary workers in rubber gloves disposing of large numbers of dead bodies in civilian clothes, some with their hands bound, and others with missing limbs.
The photos, many too graphic to publish, emerged amid
accusations by Kokang rebel forces that the government is "massacring" unarmed civilians.
"In Kokang, these people were killed by the government," the ethnic Kokang man who showed the photos to RFA said on Wednesday. "They were civilians."
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