Selected articles appearing in UK newspapers Tuesday 17th April 2012
Apr 17th, 2012 by l.seddon
Daily Telegraph
Duke of Edinburgh opens up about Battle of Matapan
Gordon Rayner
Kabul attacks show Nato intelligence failure says Hamid Karzai
Ben Farmer & Bruno Waterfield
Iranian officials ‘observed North Korean rocket launch’
Danielle Demetriou
Nato still has its work cut out in Afghanistan [Comments]
Australia set to withdraw troops early from Afghanistan
Jonathan Pearlman
Nuclear monitors to be refused access to North Korea
Julian Ryall
Iran calls on West to lift sanctions over alleged nuclear activities
Taliban paid ‘protection money’ by Afghan government
Dean Nelson & Ben Farmer
Alex Salmond’s Trident warning over Nato membership
Simon Johnson
Financial Times
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Aircraft carriers will not be reconfigured for France
Carola Hopes
on Page 4
Karzai blames Nato for attacks
Peter Spiegel and Matthew Green
on Page 8
Afghans need greater trust to step off path of perpetual war
Matthew Green
on Page 8
Guardian
US and China engage in cyber war games
Nick Hopkins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/16/us-china-cyber-war-games?INTCMP=SRCH
British soldier will not be charged over killing of Afghan
Rob Evans & Richard Norton-Taylor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/16/british-soldier-not-charged-afghan-murder?INTCMP=SRCH
Militarisation of cyberspace: how the global power struggle moved online
Nick Hopkins
Russia overtakes UK and France in global arms spending league table
Richard Norton-Taylor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/17/russia-overtakes-uk-france-arms?INTCMP=SRCH
Taliban siege of Kabul blamed on Nato intelligence
Emma Graham-Harrison
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/16/taliban-siege-kabul-nato-intelligence?INTCMP=SRCH
Afghanistan: an illusion exposed [Comments]
Carne Ross
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/16/afghanistan-western-naivety-kabul-attacks
Australian troops to exit Afghanistan a year early
Associated Press
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/17/australian-troops-afghanistan-exit
Katy Perry and the military-pop-cultural complex
Naomi Wolf
The arms spending map of the world
Simon Rogers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/apr/17/arms-spending-map-world
Kabul attacks: office shoes, snacks and bullet casings at scene of last stand
Emma Graham-Harrison
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/16/kabul-attacks-scene-last-stand
Independent
Cameron set to order jump jets for Britain’s aircraft carriers
Nigel Morris
Karzai criticises Afghans and Nato for failing to prevent Taliban attacks
Rob Taylor
Times
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Cameron closer to U-turn on fighter jets
Roland Watson
on Page 15
Bullet-ridden bodies left where they fell after brazen Taleban assault on the capital
Francis Elliott
on Page 27
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