By Nopporn Wong-Anan and Neil Chatterjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned on Saturday that the United States would not accept a nuclear North Korea and the growing threat could trigger an arms race in Asia. Gates said the U.S. did not view North Korea as a direct military threat now and .
A 14-YEAR-OLD girl acted as a “movie director” when she filmed her boyfriend raping her friend using a camera phone. The Form Two student even gave words of encouragement to her boyfriend while “directing” him, according to Harian Metro. Police sources said the sadistic incident took place recently when the victim was asked to join .
By Jack Kim and Neil Chatterjee SEOUL/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – North Korea is preparing to move an intercontinental ballistic missile from a factory near Pyongyang to a launch site on the east coast, a South Korean newspaper quoted a source in Washington as saying on Saturday. U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, speaking at a forum .
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The United States has made a new request for Australia to accept a group of detainees from Guantanamo Bay for resettlement, a government spokeswoman said on Saturday. The request is the first by President Barack Obama’s administration, which plans to close down the detention camp in Cuba within the next year Media .
By Andrea Hopkins TORONTO (Reuters) – Former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton traded jokes about life after the Oval Office and took turns defending each other as they shared a stage in Toronto on Friday to discuss global affairs. In a sold-out event billed as their first conversation on stage since they .
By Christine Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) – An 85-year-old former civilian employee of the U.S. Army was fined but avoided prison time on Friday after earlier pleading guilty to giving classified documents to Israel in the 1980s in a case the sentencing judge said was “shrouded in mystery.” Court documents showed that Ben-Ami Kadish, who .
By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – An international crackdown on piracy off Somalia’s coast has yielded around 100 arrests and put bandits operating near the Horn of Africa on the defensive, U.S. and U.N. officials said on Friday. “The international maritime presence is increasingly successful,” U.N. special envoy to Somalia Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah told reporters. .
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A top Chinese army official called on North Korea to move to denuclearisation and asked all regional parties to stay calm after the isolated state’s nuclear test this week. “Our hope is that all parties concerned will remain cool-headed and take measures to address the problem,” Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of general .
By Amin Hosni Bandar Seri Begawan – Her Majesty Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Hajah Saleha, the Royal Patron of Girl Guides Association of Brunei Darussalam and Her Royal Highness Pengiran Isteri Azrinaz Mazhar consented yesterday to attend the Girl Guides Association (PPP) Al-Quran Reading Competition Awards ceremony. The prestigious event was held yesterday at the .
By Ignatius Stephen Bandar Seri Begawan – A 50-yr-old Kampong Ayer water boat taxi driver convicted to die when the Brunei High Court found him previously guilty of pushing drugs worth $100,000 walked away a free man this week. Haji Muhammad Khudzairi bin Haji Marfuji escaped the hangman’s noose because Brunei Appeals Court judges Mr. .
