Mattis warns North Korea of 'overwhelming' response to nuclear use
The US Defence Secretary James Mattis has said any use of nuclear weapons by North Korea would be met with an "effective and overwhelming" response.
Mr Mattis spoke in South Korea, where he had been reaffirming US support,before flying to Tokyo.
He also reconfirmed plans to deploy a US missile defence system in South Korea later this year.
North Korea's repeated missile and nuclear tests and aggressive statements continue to alarm and anger the region.
The US has a considerable military presence in South Korea and Japan, as part of a post-war defence deal. There are just under 28,500 US troops in the country, for which Seoul pays about $900m (£710m) annually.
Russia 'weaponising misinformation' to create 'post-truth age' and destabilise the West, defence secretary warns
Sir Michael Fallon suggests Britain and Nato allies could carry out their own cyber attacks against Russia
Russia is "weaponising misinformation" to create a "post-truth age" in a sustained campaign of destabilisation against Nato and the West, the defence secretary has warned.
Speaking at St Andrews University, Sir Michael Fallon accused Russia of using cyber attacks to "disrupt critical infrastructure and disable democratic machinery."
Sir Michael referred to warnings of Kremlin interference in the coming elections in Germany, as well as the disruption of elections in Montenegro and the Dutch referendum on an EU-Ukraine treaty.
Visit by Breitbart editor sets Berkeley (and the internet) alight
Police cancelled a scheduled appearance of Milo Yiannopoulos, a controversial editor of the right-wing Breitbart News site at the University of California at Berkeley on Wednesday after rioters infiltrated a peaceful demonstration. Yiannopoulos leapt on the opportunity to decry what he saw as an infringement on freedom of speech, to the applause of fans including President Trump.
Ahead of Yiannopoulos’s planned appearance as a guest of the UC Berkeley branch of the Young Republicans, over a thousand students joined a non-violent protest on campus with signs proclaiming messages such as “hate speech is not free speech”. Some chanted “No Milo, No Trump, No Fascist USA
FEBRUARY 3 2017 - 6:30PM
The real reason many poor Jakartans are opposing Ahok in the gubernatorial election
We are being taken on what Dharma Diani grimly calls "rubble tourism".
This is her home, but the landscape she shows us looks more like a war zone than a peaceful kampung (neighbourhood) of poor fishermen in North Jakarta. Somehow people are still living amid the piles of debris; there are tents and patchwork shanties cobbled together with plywood and advertising tarpaulins.
This is Kampung Akuarium, ground zero in Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama's aggressive campaign of forced evictions to tackle endemic problems in the city such as flooding, traffic congestion and lack of green space.How has the end of its one-child policy affected China?
Birth rates have increased but will it be enough to stop a demographic disaster and do Chinese women want more children?
Casey Hall
Shanghai, China - Dr Shen, an obstetrician gynaecologist at a private hospital in downtown Shanghai, is tired. She has not been home in almost three days, she says. This past month has proven to be the busiest she has ever had at the hospital, which opened in 2013.
"Most of these women are having their second babies, and they all seem to be coming in January," Shen says.
A boom in second children was exactly what the central government was hoping for when it announced the lifting of the world's most controversial family planning scheme, commonly known as the "one-child policy" in October 2015.
Regulatory standoff could close Indonesia’s golden mine
US mining giant Freeport McMoRan has challenged government mandated divestment and export bans. The fate of its Grasberg mine lies in the balance
JAKARTA, FEBRUARY 3, 2017 10:29 AM
Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignasius Jonan said it repeatedly at a recent briefing with foreign reporters on the Indonesian government’s recent changes to mining regulations: “What we are trying to do is add value to our minerals for the benefit of the people of Indonesia. The goal of the government is to process all our natural resources.”
Indonesia’s controversial value-added mineral policy, born with the passage of the 2009 Mining Law and now cemented in place by smelter requirements and export restrictions, is heartfelt and in many ways understandable from an economic perspective.
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