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AFP Americas News Agenda for May 31

Duty Editor: Jim Mannion Tel: +1 202 414 0541 What's happening in the Americas on Friday: + Chinese president starts LatAm trip PORT OF SPAIN: Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Trinidad and Tobago to start his first tour of the Caribbean and Latin America, a region with growing trade links with China. He visits Costa Rica and Mexico before heading to the United States on June 7 (CHINA-LATAM-DIPLOMACY)

Ministers to meet to review NATO's cyber defenses

By Adrian Croft BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO defense ministers hold their first review of cyber defense next week in a sign the issue is making its way to the top of the alliance's agenda as fears grow that Western infrastructure and military secrets are vulnerable to hackers. Daily reports about government and private firms' computer systems coming under attack have highlighted the importance of defending NATO computer networks, particularly systems which are used to coordinate military actions among the 28 allies.

Head of elite Army academy offers to retire over sexual assault case

SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- The commanding general of South Korea's elite military academy has offered to retire to take responsibility for a recent sexual assault case on campus, Army officials said Thursday.

Military investigates sex assault case involving Army cadets

By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL, May 29 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean Army has launched an investigation into allegations that a senior male cadet sexually assaulted a junior female officer cadet under the influence of alcohol on campus during a festival last week, military officials said Wednesday. Last Wednesday, about 30 students and professors at the Korea Military Academy had lunch and drank alcohol after a sports event earlier in the day to celebrate Cadet Day.

Military investigates sex assault case involving Army cadets

By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL, May 29 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean Army has launched an investigation into allegations that a senior male cadet sexually assaulted a junior female officer cadet under the influence of alcohol on campus during a festival last week, military officials said Wednesday. Last Wednesday, about 20 students and professors at the Korea Military Academy had lunch and drank alcohol after a sports event earlier in the day to celebrate Cadet Day.

Vimy Ridge tour gives hope to Canadian Afghan vets suffering from PTSD

VIMY RIDGE, FRANCE, - A group of Canadian soldiers, struggling with post traumatic stress, paid a moving visit to Vimy Ridge on Sunday, in the hope the carnage from one of the country's most horrific battles will help bring comfort. With an authentic First World War officer's trench watch in his pocket, Capt. Andrew Richardson says the journey to the site of the historic engagement helps make sense of his time in Afghanistan.

6 NATO personnel, 8 civilians killed in Kabul blast

A suicide car bomb attack in Kabul on Thursday killed two NATO soldiers and four NATO contractors travelling in a convoy, officials said, as well as eight Afghan bystanders who were earlier confirmed dead. "Two International Security Assistance Force service members and four ISAF contracted civilians died," the NATO-led ISAF mission said in a statement, declining to identify nationalities in line with coalition policy. bgs/pdw/ami

Canadian intelligence caught off guard by Arab Spring: government report

OTTAWA - The 2011 Arab Spring uprising in the Middle East came as a surprise to the Canadian government, which risks getting caught off-guard again without a new approach to gathering intelligence, an internal government report says. Among other developments, analysts underestimated the repercussions of regime change in Tunisia, the Egyptian military's efforts to control dissent and the duration of the civil war in Libya, says the assessment of how well the Privy Council Office did in keeping an eye on the Middle East two years ago.

Film's Vietnam vet find after 44 years false

A man who claimed in a widely publicised documentary to be an American soldier, missing since his helicopter was shot down during the Vietnam War, is actually Vietnamese, the US said Thursday. "Unclaimed", directed by Michael Jorgensen, which has generated an explosion of interest since its premiere this week, purports to have discovered US serviceman John H. Robertson -- alive, well and living in the communist nation.

Film's Vietnam vet find after 44 years false

A man who claimed in a widely publicised documentary to be an American soldier, missing since his helicopter was shot down during the Vietnam War, is actually Vietnamese, the US said Thursday. "Unclaimed", directed by Michael Jorgensen, which has generated an explosion of interest since its premiere this week, purports to have discovered US serviceman John H. Robertson -- alive, well and living in the communist nation.
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