News headlines Mar. 5, 2013

N. Korea vows to scrap ceasefire if South, US continue military drill

North Korea has threatened to scrap the armistice which ended the 1950-53 Korean War if the South and US continue with an ongoing military drill. 58

 

• Nuclear revival: Japan to re-launch six reactors in 2013
• Japan’s major supplier of nuclear power generating equipment, France’s Areva group, has announced Tokyo’s plans to restart six reactors by the end of 2013. The other reactors will be restarted later – except the Fukushima-type made in the US.

• Any port in a storm: Pirate Bay relocates to N. Korea?
• The Pirate Bay’s announcement that it has laid down anchor in North Korea may just be a hoax as Europe forces the mutinous bit torrent tracker into choppy waters over the legality of its operations. 24

•   ‘War weary’ Taliban may form political party
• The Afghan Taliban are considering a political solution to the decade long conflict, a senior Taliban leader has said, amid speculation that the Taliban may be becoming war weary. 49

• News line

  • Two sentenced in US over plot to ship aircraft parts to Iran
  • Syria internal conflict expands beyond country – Russia
  • Assad says Syria ‘conquered conspiracy’
  • Moldovan MPs pass vote of no confidence in Filat government
  • Jordan’s King Abdullah II urges help for Syrian refugees
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  • Shocking pics of Iraqis allegedly tortured by UK troops spark outrage

  
  

  Shocking photos have been shown at a public inquiry into allegations British troops killed and tortured Iraqi soldiers after a firefight in 2004. The UK military has denied the charges that echo the horrific treatment suffered by detainees at the hands of American soldiers in Abu Gharib prison. READ MORE: http://bit.ly/WEvgkl

  
  

  • Nigel Farage: Leaders utterly unplugged from thoughts & hopes of ordinary people

  
  

  In anticipation of a promised referendum of the UK's membership of the EU, the key issue is whether Britain will get its democracy and self-governance back so that the future generation can call the country 'their own', UKIP leader Nigel Farage told RT.
  FULL TRANSCRIPT: http://rt.com/op-edge/uk-eu-membershi...