Friday 13 January 2012

News from Asia and Middle East


Geithner Gets China Snub on Iran Oil as Japan Discusses Cut

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner's efforts to tighten economic sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program won backing from Japan a day after China rejected limiting oil imports from the country.

12 January, 2012

"We want to take concrete steps to reduce our share in an orderly way as soon as possible," Finance Minister Jun Azumi said at a joint press conference in Tokyo today with his U.S. counterpart. "The world cannot tolerate nuclear development."

Geithner's meetings were part of a trip to Asia's two largest economies aimed at building support for tighter Iranian economic sanctions after international monitors detected an acceleration in the nation's nuclear development program. China, which counts Iran as one of its top petroleum suppliers, yesterday snubbed the U.S., with a vice foreign minister saying his nation "opposes imposing pressure and sanctions."

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Iraq Deplores ‘Currency Attack’ as Dollars Flow to Syria, Iran


12,January, 2012

Iraq’s central bank said it’s under a “currency attack” as traders buy U.S. dollars in daily auctions and resell them on the black market in Syria and Iran, which face hard currency shortages due to sanctions.


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This is everywhere in the world media today

Karzai leads wave of condemnation over video of urination on corpses
Afghan president calls video of US marines urinating on corpses 'inhumane', but the Taliban says it will not hinder peace talks


the Guardian,
12 January, 2012

Afghan president Hamid Karzai and US defence secretary Leon Panetta have led a chorus of condemnation of American soldiers filmed urinating on the bodies of dead Afghans as "inhumane" and "utterly deplorable".

The Pentagon said it is attempting to identify the soldiers responsible for the latest in a series of abuses by US forces which is likely to further inflame hostility to Nato troops in Afghanistan and reinforce the perception that there is an institutional problem in the American military.

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