World Politics Review Media Roundup 04 Jan. 2012

Media Roundup: 04 Jan 2012

Iran Warns U.S. Aircraft Carrier Not to Return to Gulf

By: J. DAVID GOODMAN | The New York Times

The warning, by Iran's army chief, was the latest and most aggressive volley in a near-daily exchange of barbed statements between Iran and the United States.

China Takes Aim at U.S. Naval Might

By: JULIAN E. BARNES, NATHAN HODGE AND JEREMY PAGE | The Wall Street Journal

China is building a new class of ballistic missiles designed to arc through the stratosphere and explode onto the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier, potentially forcing U.S. carriers to stay farther away from its shores.

Samurai Rules Say the North Korean Succession May Fail

By: Yuriko Koike | The Daily Star

Although Kim Jong Il received his reign from his own father, North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung, history suggests that a clean transfer of authority from father to son is the exception rather than the rule.

More News

• Sudden Reunification Could Be Trouble for Seoul
  By: FOSTER KLUG | The Associated Press
  
• Militant Groups in Pakistan Form United Front
  By: Karin Brulliard and Haq Nawaz Khan | The Washington Post
  
• Militias Could Drag Libya Into Civil War: NTC Chief
  Reuters
  
• Possible Showdown With Iran Sends Oil Prices Soaring
  By: Jonathan S. Landay and Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers
  
• Why Iran's Currency Dropped to Worst Low in Two Decades
  By: Roshanak Taghavi | The Christian Science Monitor
  
• U.S. Sanctions One Factor Among Many Behind Iran's Currency Slide
  By: Nader Habibi | World Politics Review
  
• Myanmar Freed Only 12 Political Prisoners, Group Says
  Reuters
  
• Israelis, Palestinians Meet in Jordan for 1st Time in a Year
  By: Sheera Frenkel | McClatchy Newspapers
  
• Afghanistan Widens Effort to Recoup Bank's Assets
  By: GRAHAM BOWLEY | The New York Times
  
• Kazakhstan Extends State of Emergency After Protest
  Agence France-Presse
  
• Russia Reluctantly Enters Into a New Revolution
  By: Pavel K. Baev | Eurasia Daily Monitor
  
• Onetime Mubarak Foes Move Closer to Power as Egyptians Vote Again
  By: Jeffrey Fleishman | Los Angeles Times
  
• Hope Meets Hate in New Libya
  By: Alexander Smoltczyk | Der Spiegel
  
• China's President Lashes Out at Western Culture
  By: EDWARD WONG | The New York Times
  
• Suspected Senegal Rebels Attack Police Post
  Agence France-Presse
  
• Oil Tanker Released By Pirates Heads for Dubai
  By: Fareed Rahman | The National