News Headlines - 06 April 2014
▽More ships rush to probe possible black box signals | The Japan Times
Three separate but fleeting sounds from deep in the Indian Ocean offered new hope Sunday in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, as officials rushed to determine whether they were signals from the plane’s black boxes before their beacons fall silent.
▽US sending 2 warships to Japan to counter NKorea | Boston Herald
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered a two-pronged warning to Asia Pacific nations Sunday, announcing that the U.S. will send two additional ballistic missile destroyers to Japan to counter the North Korean threat, and saying China must better respect its neighbors.
▽Free-trade deal with Japan not a certainty, says Tony Abbott | theguardian.com
Tony Abbott has cast doubt on whether or not he will secure a free-trade agreement with Japan on his Asian visit because negotiations have apparently stalled on the issue of agriculture.
British supermarkets should scrap offers such as "buy one get one free" to help end the "morally repugnant" waste of millions of tonnes of food, a House of Lords committee has said.
▽Miller clings on to cabinet post amid media ‘witch hunt’ - FT.com
Maria Miller was clinging on to her cabinet post last night as senior colleagues depicted the culture secretary embroiled in an expenses row as the victim of “media antipathy” for her role in pushing through press regulation.
