News Headlines - 19 April 2018

▽US PACOM chief nominee warns of China threat - News - NHK WORLD - English

The admiral said that the threat to US forces and bases is substantial and growing, and the US has a long way to go to be able to deter and counter China's ever improving ballistic missiles and hypersonic weapons to come.
Davidson suggested that the US military should promptly upgrade its weapons and equipment to counter China.

▽Syria: Kurds detain German jihadi tied to 9/11 | DW

A Syrian-born German citizen, who is alleged to have helped plan the attacks on September 11, 2001, has been arrested by Kurdish forces in Syria, according to a senior Kurdish commander... Zammar is believed to have been an al-Qaida recruiter and close associate of members of the Hamburg terror cell of Islamic extremists thought to have been important operatives in the 9/11 attacks in the United States.

▽Airmen fired, demoted over dinosaur puppet video - CNNPolitics

The US Air Force is making it clear that dinosaur puppets have no place in its "time-honored" military traditions -- levying tough punishments against three members of the Tennessee Air National Guard involved in a viral video depicting a reenlistment ceremony.

▽#MeToo hits Japan as Junichi Fukuda quits over harassment claims - BBC News

A Japanese broadcaster says it will file a complaint against the finance ministry alleging a top official sexually harassed a female journalist... Japan's socially conservative society has so far been slow to join the worldwide #MeToo movement... The allegations that Mr Fukuda, the finance ministry's top bureaucrat, had made sexually suggestive comments to female journalists were first reported by magazine Shukan Shincho earlier this week.

▽UK temperatures top 29C in hottest April day since 1949 - BBC News

Temperatures have soared to over 29C in parts of London, making it the warmest April day for nearly 70 years.
The unusually warm weather across the UK is the result of low pressure over the Atlantic and high pressure over western Europe drawing in warm air.