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Russian tactical nuclear missiles a US concernWashington (AFP) Nov 30, 2010 Russia moved tactical nuclear warheads to within miles of its borders with NATO countries as recently as late spring, complicating US ties with Moscow, a report said Tuesday, as Congress mulled a new arms control treaty. The Wall Street Journal cited US officials who described the movements and cautioned that they ran afoul of pledges Moscow made as early as 1991 to remove the weapons from outposts near Eastern European NATO allies such as Poland. US diplomatic cables out of Moscow leaked just ... read more |
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  Clinton 'should resign,' WikiLeaks founder says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should resign if it is shown US diplomats were ordered to engage in espionage. ... more | .. |
 US friends, foes savage WikiLeaks for secrets release Friends and foes of the United States turned on WikiLeaks over its release of secret US diplomatic cables, with some saying the revelations undermined diplomacy, while others dismissed them as worthless. ... more | .. |
 N.Korea boasts about uranium enrichment amid high tensions Nuclear-armed North Korea boasted Tuesday about the sophistication of its new uranium enrichment plant, a facility which has raised fears the regime wants to make more fuel for atom bombs. ... more | .. |
 WikiLeaks cables show Saudi obsessed by Iran threat The US diplomatic memos released by WikiLeaks show a Saudi Arabia obsessed by a threat from Iran, with King Abdullah urging the Americans to destroy Tehran's nuclear weapons programme. ... more |
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 Senior N.Korea officials defected to South: WikiLeaks Several high-ranking North Korean officials have defected to the South as Pyongyang struggled with an "increasingly chaotic situation", said a US diplomatic cable released on the WikiLeaks site. ... more | .. |
N.Korea losing its value for ally China: leaked memos Chinese officials are increasingly exasperated with close ally North Korea and some feel China's erratic neighbor is losing its strategic value for Beijing, according to leaked US documents. ... more | .. |
 Iran says nuclear scientists and atomic programme attacked A defiant Iran admitted Monday that its atomic programme may have come under cyber-attack as one of its top nuclear scientists was killed by a bomb attached to his car in the capital and another was wounded by a similar device. ... more | .. |
Peaceful Korean reunification now a distant dream: analysts North Korea's deadly attack on a South Korean island has shattered lingering dreams of peaceful and gradual reunification and the fall of the world's last Cold War frontier, analysts say. ... more |
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US, S.Korea to wrap up war games amid N.Korea crisis The US and South Korean navies were Wednesday set to wrap up war games meant as a muscular show of force to North Korea, as world powers remained sharply divided on how to deal with the nuclear-armed regime. ... more | .. |
US, S.Korea plan more naval drills as early as this month The United States and South Korea are planning more joint naval drills as early as this month, South Korea's military said Wednesday as the two sides wrapped up four days of Yellow Sea manoeuvres. ... more | .. |
 China urges US action over WikiLeaks revelations China on Tuesday urged the United States to "properly handle" fallout from a slew of leaked cables that revealed Beijing, long seen as North Korea's protector, would accept a reunited Korean peninsula. ... more | .. |
  Karzai pardons dangerous criminals, drug dealers: WikiLeaks Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered the release of numerous dangerous criminals and drug traffickers detained by US-led coalition forces, leaked American diplomatic cables revealed Tuesday. ... more |
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 Iran, Syria in spotlight at UN atomic watchdog meet Iran's disputed nuclear drive will top the agenda of a meeting of the UN atomic watchdog this week, a prelude to the resumption of long-stalled talks between Tehran and world powers. ... more | .. |
China thwarts UN action against North Korea: diplomats China has blocked UN Security Council condemnation of North Korea over its artillery attack on the rival South and its new nuclear activities, diplomats said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Iran nuclear talks back on, in Geneva next week Negotiations between Iran and Western powers on Tehran's controversial nuclear drive will resume next week in Geneva, more than a year after they ground to a halt with sanctions having multiplied. ... more | .. |
US, S.Korea wrap up war games amid N.Korea crisis The US and South Korean navies Wednesday ended a major exercise intended to warn North Korea and announced more drills, but world powers remained divided over how to deal with the nuclear-armed regime. ... more |
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  Bahrain disavows criticism of French jet in leaked US cable Bahrain on Wednesday disavowed comments attributed to King Hamad in a US cable published by the WikiLeaks whistleblower website in which he appeared to disparage a French warplane. ... more | .. |
 Medvedev warns West of new arms race President Dmitry Medvedev warned Tuesday that failure by Russia and the West to agree on a new missile shield for Europe could spark an arms race that would see Moscow deploy new weapons systems. ... more | .. |
 Iran says nuclear scientist's murder warning from West Iranian atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on Wednesday that the assassination of a top nuclear scientist was a warning from the West ahead of new talks on Tehran's programme. ... more | .. |
  Russia to deploy 'striking forces' if rejected on ABM: Putin Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Russia will build up its "striking forces" including nuclear weapons to ensure security if a joint decision on missile defence fails, CNN said Wednesday. ... more |
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  US deploys 'game-changer' weapon to Afghanistan It looks and acts like something best left in the hands of Sylvester Stallone's "Rambo," but this latest dream weapon is real - and the US Army sees it becoming the Taliban's worst nightmare. ... more | .. |
 WikiLeaks says it is under new cyber attack: Twitter feed WikiLeaks said in a Twitter message Tuesday that it was under a new cyber attack after a similar incident at the weekend just before the website began releasing secret US diplomatic cables. ... more | .. |
WikiLeaks facing global backlash WikiLeaks faced a worldwide backlash on Tuesday over its release of secret US diplomatic cables, with some countries saying the revelations undermined diplomacy while others dismissed them as worthless. ... more | .. |
  Iraq monthly toll lowest in a year The number of people killed in violence in Iraq in November was the lowest in a year for the second month running, government figures showed Wednesday. ... more |
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