News Headlines - 13 June 2013

▽Japanese diplomat tells UN meeting to 'shut up' after being laughed at | Metro News

Japan’s human rights envoy to the United Nations is under pressure to resign after he told fellow diplomats to ‘shut up’ when they laughed at him.

▽Is Abenomics Doomed—Or Will Japan Un-Doom Itself? - The Atlantic

Foreign investors, buoyed by Bernanke, sent Japanese stocks up. Then, spooked by Bernanke, they sent the Nikkei into a tailspin. Guess whose help Japan needs now?

▽AFP: US toughens stance on Syria after 'nerve gas attacks'

President Barack Obama's administration announced it had conducted a review of intelligence reports and concluded that Syrian regime forces had used banned arms, including the nerve gas sarin, in attacks that killed up to 150 people.

▽Army chief: we won't win wars if we are cut again - Telegraph

Forcing more spending cuts on the military would be dangerous and disruptive and would damage the country’s ability to win wars, the head of the Army warns.

▽Man charged over defaced Queen portrait | The Guardian

A man will appear in court on Friday accused of defacing a portrait of the Queen in Westminster Abbey, Scotland Yard has said. Tim Haries, 41, from Doncaster in South Yorkshire, will appear at Westminster magistrates' court charged with criminal damage over ￡5,000.