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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 24, 2013
Why world's newest country is nearing civil war
It was considered one of the world's great successes when South Sudan became an independent nation on July 9, 2011. After many unhappy years as a region of Sudan, the new country declared its independence with crucial support from the outside world, particularly the United States.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 22, 2013
Story of  ‘systematic’ exploitation of women becomes reporter’s life
On the first day that Jineth Bedoya Lima arrived for work at the offices of Colombia National Radio in Bogota, she was assigned to cover a story that would become her life. That day, in December 1996, her task was to report on a riot at what is probably the most dangerous prison in the world, La Modelo,...
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 20, 2013
Congress approves changes to address sex assault, rape in military
Congress passed a broad set of changes to U.S. military personnel policy late Thursday, forcing the Pentagon to revamp how it deals with cases of sexual assault and rape in the ranks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 2, 2013
U.S. plan for new, Western-trained Libyan force faces obstacles
Deepening divisions among Libya's myriad armed groups are increasingly stirring conflict in the North African state. Now the United States and its allies are prepared to add a new force to the toxic mix.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Dec 1, 2013
Does China ADIZ take focus off 'real enemy'?
China has one of the largest and most consequential militaries in the world, but how Beijing thinks about its military and makes military decisions is largely a mystery to the outside world. The People's Liberation Army is technically attached to the Chinese Communist Party, rather than to the Chinese...
WORLD
Nov 30, 2013
Key officials back splitting NSA, Cyber Command
Key senior administration officials have advocated splitting the leadership of the largest U.S. spy agency from that of the military's cyberwarfare command as a final White House decision nears, according to individuals briefed on the discussions.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 29, 2013
Karzai says U.S. drone strike killed 2-year-old
Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused the United States of launching a drone strike that killed a 2-year-old child Thursday and vowed to not sign a long-term security agreement if similar attacks continue.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 28, 2013
Getting away with murder in the cradle of the Libyan revolution
It is exceedingly easy to get away with murder in the cradle of the Libyan revolution.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 28, 2013
Pakistan has a new, little-known military commander
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif named a new military chief Wednesday, bypassing seniority to install a low-profile army general in the powerful position.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 28, 2013
In Pakistan, political party reveals alleged CIA station chief in protest of drone strike
A Pakistani political party revealed on Wednesday what it said was the name of the CIA's highest-ranking officer in the country in protest of a CIA drone strike last week that killed as many as six people and prompted allegations that the agency had attacked a religious school.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 28, 2013
China's move to establish air defense zone appears to backfire
It was designed as a forceful response to Japanese assertiveness. But Beijing's creation of an air defense zone may have backfired, experts said, eliciting a strong joint response by the United States and Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 27, 2013
Rouhani gets high marks after 100 days in office
One hundred days into his first term as Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani offered an upbeat progress report to the country Tuesday, two days after a nuclear deal with world powers gave his young administration a much-needed boost.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 27, 2013
Egyptian protest crackdown begins
Egyptian police violently disbanded a small protest mounted Tuesday night by activists calling for democracy in central Cairo, arresting dozens of some of the country's best-known rights advocates just two days after the military-appointed interim president signed an acutely restrictive law regulating...
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Nov 26, 2013
Despite Obama's plan to shift drone campaign, CIA still behind strikes
When missiles fired by CIA drones slammed into Yemen and Pakistan last week, the attacks ended a period of relative quiet for the Obama administration's lethal counterterrorism program. They also served as a reminder that the CIA is not ready to relinquish its role in the drone war.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 24, 2013
Afghan president holds firm on delaying security deal with U.S.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai will continue to defy U.S. threats to walk away from a security agreement between the two countries and plans to reiterate in a speech to a grand council later Sunday that he will not sign it before spring, his spokesman said.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 22, 2013
U.S. Navy suspends another officer in bribery investigation
The U.S. Navy announced Thursday it has suspended another official — the seventh in two months — for his alleged ties to a major Singapore-based defense contractor accused of fraud and bribery in a scandal that continues to escalate.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 22, 2013
U.S., Pakistan tussle over drone strike's target
American and Pakistani officials disagreed sharply Thursday about whether an Islamic school was struck by a U.S. drone, in an unusual attack that inflamed tensions over the CIA drone campaign.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 20, 2013
Deadly blasts in Lebanon linked to Syrian war, sectarian divisions
The debris-strewn, bloodstained street outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut lay as mute testimony of another dark day in Lebanon on Tuesday, when nearly two dozen people were killed in a double suicide bombing, the latest in a string of sectarian attacks to blight the country.

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