BRUSSELS (Reuters) – World powers have asked Iran to hold a new round of talks over Tehran's nuclear work in February, a spokesman for the EU's foreign policy representative said on Monday. The EU's Catherine Ashton, who oversees diplomatic contacts with Iran on its nuclear program on behalf of the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany, said last week the Iranian authorities were stalling on efforts to resume diplomacy over the program. Her attempts to schedule new talks have failed since December, and a new date has been proposed. … Yemeni troops and tanks attack al Qaeda stronghold
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni troops backed by tanks attacked an al Qaeda stronghold on Monday after talks to free three Western hostages collapsed, an official and residents said, leading to a retaliatory militant raid that killed three soldiers. Tackling lawlessness in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state, which flanks the world’s biggest oil exporter Saudi Arabia, is an international priority. The United States views Yemen as a frontline in its struggle against al Qaeda. …
Iranian state TV says country has successfully sent monkey into space
TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian state TV says the country has successfully sent a monkey into space in what’s described as another step toward Tehran’s goal of a manned space flight.
Somaliland dismisses Britain's security threat warning
HARGEISA (Reuters) – Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland enclave has dismissed as “baseless” a British government warning of an imminent attack on foreigners. London urged all British nationals to leave Somaliland immediately on Sunday, warning of a “specific threat” to foreigners. Ireland issued the same alert to its citizens. Somaliland’s Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdillahi Omer told reporters on Sunday night that there was no “imminent threat and danger from terrorists” and that the “UK government’s presumption of insecurity in Somaliland is baseless. …
4 civilians in S. Sudan die after rebel-army clash
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Officials in South Sudan say a tension-filled showdown in the middle of a market town between rebels and South Sudan’s military led to the deaths of four civilians.
China threatens reporter who exposed sex-tape scandal
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese police threatened a muck-raking investigative reporter on Monday with arrest for concealing evidence if he did not hand over further tapes in his possession after a sex video he released of an official with a mistress went viral online. Zhu Ruifeng, who runs a whistleblowing website called “People Supervision Net”, released the video last year of Lei Zhengfu, a district party chief in the southwestern city of Chongqing, having sex with his much younger mistress. …
Iran: Monkey successfully sent into space
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian state TV says the country has successfully sent a monkey into space in what’s described as another step toward Tehran’s goal of a manned space flight.
Mali: Timbuktu mayor says Islamists burned texts
SEVARE, Mali (AP) -- Timbuktu's mayor says that Islamist extremists have torched a library containing historic manuscripts as French and Malian forces closed in on Mali's fabled city. India court rules that suspect in fatal gang rape in New Delhi is to be tried as a juvenile
NEW DELHI – A juvenile court ruled Monday that a suspect in the fatal gang rape of a young woman in New Delhi last month was a juvenile at the time of the attack.
Dead Russian whistleblower set to go on trial
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia is preparing to put lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on trial, even though he is dead, in the latest twist in a case that has severely strained U.S.-Russian relations.
UPDATE 1-Tennis-Pattaya Open women's singles round 1 results
Jan 28 (Infostrada Sports) – Results from the Pattaya Open Women’s Singles Round 1 matches on Monday Marina Erakovic (New Zealand) beat 3-Hsieh Su-Wei (Taiwan) 6-2 6-2 Varatchaya Wongteanchai (Thailand) beat Annika Beck (Germany) 6-3 6-3
France fears Islamist rise in Syria unless opposition helped
PARIS (Reuters) – France's foreign minister said on Monday Syria risks falling into the hands of Islamist militant groups if supp orters of the Syrian opposition do not do more to help it in a 22-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. Addressing the opening of a conference in Paris with senior members of the Syrian National Coalition, Laurent Fabius said the meeting must focus on making the opposition politically and militarily cohesive to encourage international assistance. … 
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