CA-NEWS Summary

U.S. to send missile defenses to Guam over North Korea threat

SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said it would soon send a missile defense system to Guam to defend it from North Korea, as the U.S. military adjusts to what Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called a "real and clear danger" from Pyongyang. Hours later, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said North Korea had moved what appeared to be a mid-range Musudan missile to its east coast. It was not clear if the North planned to fire the rocket or was just putting it on display as a show of force, one South Korean government source was quoted as saying.

China readies to fight new bird flu; Japan, Hong Kong on guard

BEIJING (Reuters) - The death toll from a new strain of bird flu rose to five in China on Thursday as Beijing said it was mobilizing resources nationwide to combat the virus, Japan and Hong Kong stepped up vigilance and Vietnam banned imports of Chinese poultry. The H7N9 bird flu strain does not appear to be transmitted from human to human but authorities in Hong Kong raised a preliminary alert and said they were taking precautions at the airport.

Iran's Jalili vows stronger defense of nuclear policy

ALMATY (Reuters) - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili sounded a defiant note ahead of a new round of talks with world powers in Kazakhstan, saying on Thursday they had to recognize Iran's right to enrich uranium to see any breakthrough. The six powers - United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany - will meet Iranian negotiators on Friday and Saturday in the Kazakh city of Almaty, hoping Tehran agrees to scale back its most sensitive atomic work that they suspect is aimed at achieving a nuclear weapons capability.

A quieter second-act for U.S.-South Korea military drills?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration, which has made military moves intended to signal to North Korea and U.S. allies that it takes Pyongyang's threats seriously, plans to switch gears and tone down public pronouncements about joint military exercises with Seoul, U.S. officials said Thursday. The U.S. messaging, which has included flying two B-2 stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula and the announcement of new or expanded missile defense systems in Alaska and Guam, was intended to reassure South Korea and Japan it would back them in a crisis, the officials said.

Palestinian funerals draw thousands in tense West Bank

ANABTA, West Bank (Reuters) - Thousands of mourners turned out on Thursday for the funerals of three Palestinians, including two teenagers killed by Israeli army gunfire in some of the worst violence in the occupied West Bank in years. The upsurge in unrest was triggered on Tuesday by the death of Maysara Abu Hamdeya, a 64-year-old prisoner serving a life term in an Israeli jail and suffering from cancer.

North Korea lacks means for nuclear strike on U.S., experts say

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea's explicit threats this week to strike the United States with nuclear weapons are rhetorical bluster, as the isolated nation does not yet have the means to make good on them, Western officials and security experts say. Pyongyang has slowly and steadily improved its missile capabilities in recent years and U.S. officials say its missiles may be capable of hitting outlying U.S. territories and states, including Guam, Alaska and Hawaii.

World powers await Iran's reaction to nuclear offer

ALMATY (Reuters) - World powers will urge Iran on Friday to accept their offer to ease some economic sanctions if it stops its most sensitive nuclear work, in talks aimed at easing tensions that threaten to boil over into war. The six powers - the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany - will meet Iranian negotiators in the Kazakh city of Almaty for the second round of talks this year, aiming to settle a decade-old dispute over Tehran's nuclear work.

No agreement on Syria access for U.N. chemical arms inspectors

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations and Syria have not yet agreed on how much access a team of chemical weapons inspectors will have to investigate allegations that such arms were used recently in the Syrian conflict, according to a letter to Syria's U.N. envoy. The United Nations said last month it would investigate the Syrian government's allegations that rebels used chemical arms in an attack near the northern city of Aleppo.

Serbia must accept Kosovo plan or risk isolation: minister

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia must accept a European Union-brokered plan to tackle the ethnic partition of its former province of Kosovo, or risk isolation, the country's finance minister said on Thursday. Serbia says it has until Tuesday next week to tell the EU whether or not it accepts the plan, which the government on Wednesday described as "catastrophic" for ethnic Serbs in Kosovo where ethnic Albanians form the majority.

French government blameless in minister scandal: Hollande

RABAT (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday the government was blameless in the case of an ex-minister who lied about a secret foreign bank account, as he and top ministers faced more pressure to explain themselves. Hollande and his finance minister spent a third day fending off criticism and accusations of a cover-up after former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac this week admitted lying about a secret 600,000-euro foreign bank account.

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