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Japan prepares defences against N. Korean rocketTokyo (AFP) March 23, 2012 Japan on Friday readied its missile defence systems to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it threatens the country, as the UN chief warned that next month's launch could jeopardise food aid. "I have ordered officials to prepare to deploy the PAC-3 and Aegis warships," Japan's Defence Minister Naoki Tanaka told reporters, referring to surface-to-air missiles and destroyers carrying missiles. The nuclear-armed North has announced it will launch a rocket in mid-April to put a satellite into orbit, ... read more |
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  Displaced Iraqis still suffering from sectarian war Talib al-Ajami stands near his makeshift house in a garbage and sewage-filled slum in north Baghdad holding a torn, creased letter from insurgents who drove him from his home in 2006. ... more | .. |
  China installs alarm system to grab refugees: report China has installed a silent alarm system inside every house in a border town as part of its strengthened crackdown on fugitives from North Korea, a report said Friday. ... more | .. |
  China bloggers skirt censors with noodles, Teletubbies Chinese web users frustrated by the blocking of sensitive terms have come up with a system of bizarre code words to allow them to post on a political saga that has gripped the blogosphere. ... more | .. |
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 Hong Kong 'mock vote' under cyber attack: university A university website offering ordinary Hong Kongers a chance to vote for their next leader ahead of Sunday's election is under "systematic attack" from hackers, organisers said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Delhi boosts military spending 17 percent India's defense budget took a 17 percent jump to around $40 billion for 2012-13, partly because of major acquisition plans. ... more | .. |
  Lavrov: Putin, Obama to meet in May U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin will meet shortly after the latter is sworn into office in early May, the Kremlin says. ... more | .. |
 Outside View: Tagging Iranian dissidents Fact and law have been moving in the direction of removal of an Iranian dissident group - the Mujahedin-e-Khalq also known as the People's Mujahedin of Iran - from the U.S. Department of State Foreign Terrorist Organizations list. But as fact and law run against retaining the terrorist designation, opponents of the PMOI dance with unnamed diplomats to thwart delisting. ... more |
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Caltech takes first steps toward lightsails that could reach distant star systems
Fifth H-3 rocket successfully launches Michibiki No. 6 satellite
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  Like father, Assad holds grimly to power Syrian President Bashar Assad seems increasingly prepared to slaughter his opponents to hold onto power against a stubborn year-old uprising, just as his even more ruthless father, the late Hafez Assad, did during his 30 years of iron rule. ... more | .. |
  US commander cautious on Afghan withdrawal The top US commander in Afghanistan said Thursday he favored keeping major "combat power" in place in 2013 with 68,000 American troops on the ground, despite political calls for a faster exit. ... more | .. |
 Threat of strike on Iran is working: Israel's Barak The threat of a military strike on Iran is preventing the Islamic republic from taking the final steps towards developing a nuclear bomb, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Dassault says profit rises 10%, confident on fighter sales France's Dassault Aviation posted on Thursday a 10-percent rise in net profit to 407 million euros ($536 million) and expressed confidence about foreign sales of its Rafale fighter plane. ... more |
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 IAEA says in talks with N. Korea over inspectors' visit The UN atomic agency IAEA has begun consultations with North Korea over a possible visit to the country by its inspectors to monitor its nuclear activities, a spokeswoman said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Europe's armed forces team up on refuelling aircraft European defence ministers facing shrinking budgets agreed Thursday to join forces to get more air-to-air refuelling planes, deploy extra field hospitals and exploit "green" energy. ... more | .. |
 West to pay Afghan military $4 bn a year: Karzai The West will subsidise Afghan security forces by more than $4 billion a year after US-led troops leave in 2014, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday, implicitly accepting a cut in the planned size of his military. ... more | .. |
 Swedish prosecutor probes Saudi arms deal A prosecutor in Sweden has opened a preliminary inquiry into a controversial defence deal to help Saudi Arabia build an arms factory, defence officials said Thursday. ... more |
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LA fires fully contained after burning for 3 weeks: state agency
Scientists cast doubt on famous US groundhog's weather forecasts
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 Iraq insists VP's dead bodyguard not tortured Claims by Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president that his bodyguard was tortured while in custody were denied on Thursday by authorities, who insisted he died of kidney failure. ... more | .. |
 'Hacktivists' biggest data thieves in 2011: Verizon Activists with hacker skills were behind more than half the data stolen in cyber attacks last year, according to findings released on Thursday by Verizon Communications. ... more | .. |
 Military Analytics Expert Sees Tens of Billions in Supply Chain Efficiencies The Defense Department, faced with cuts of what Secretary Leon Panetta said could be $487 billion over the next ten years, can find tens of billions of dollars in cost reductions by better aligning ... more | .. |
 Prison sentence for espionage scientist A former NASA scientist has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for tax evasion and espionage after passing secrets to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli spy. ... more |
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 S. Korea set to expand ballistic missile range: president South Korea is set to reach agreement with the US on expanding its ballistic missile range to better guard against attacks by North Korea, the South's leader was quoted Thursday as saying. ... more | .. |
  US Army reviews mental health diagnoses The US Army's inspector general is investigating whether psychiatrists threw out diagnoses of post-traumatic stress for soldiers to save money, the civilian head of the army told lawmakers Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Online rumour fills information void in jittery China Groundless rumours of a coup that have swept Beijing in recent days are a sign of nervousness after the sacking of political star Bo Xilai exposed rifts in China's ruling Communist Party, analysts say. ... more | .. |
 Russia, China join UN demand for Syria peace move The UN Security Council demanded Wednesday that Syria immediately implement a peace plan by special envoy Kofi Annan, even as government forces pounded rebel zones around Damascus and Homs. ... more |
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Portugal lawmakers take step toward deep-sea mining ban
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 Clinton sees shared interest with Pakistan Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday the United States and Pakistan share interests in fighting terrorism after lawmakers in Islamabad issued demands over the troubled relationship. ... more | .. |
 UN's Ban to raise N. Korea launch at Seoul summit UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he would raise North Korea's planned rocket launch at a Seoul nuclear summit next week, expressing "deep concern" over the issue. ... more | .. |
 Ex-spy boss may spill Gadhafi's secrets Moammar Gadhafi's ex-spymaster and exterminator in chief has become the target of an international legal tug-of-war over who'll prosecute him for a chilling string of atrocities. ... more | .. |
 Outside View: A bodyguard of lies During World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said that truth was so important that it had to be protected by a "bodyguard of lies." Hence, under Churchill's leadership, Britain set up the Special Operations Executive to confuse, mislead and otherwise trick the Nazis about allied intentions and operations. The "man who never was" before the Sicily invasion in 1943 and creation of a mock army group under U.S. Army Gen. George Patton's command in England prior to the Normandy invasion in June 1944 convinced Hitler that the allies were attacking elsewhere. As a result, significant German forces were diverted to the wrong landing areas. ... more |
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 Russian arms dealer sentencing delayed again International arms smuggler Viktor Bout's sentencing was delayed Wednesday by a US judge for a second time, court papers showed. ... more | .. |
 N. Korea blasts Seoul over upcoming summit North Korea Wednesday sharpened its criticism of an upcoming Seoul summit, saying any South Korean attempt to address the North's nuclear programme at the meeting would be seen as a declaration of war. ... more | .. |
 British Afghanistan pullout to save 2.4 billion pounds: Osborne Britain will spend Pounds 2.4 billion ($3.8 billion, 2.9 billion euros) less than planned on its mission in Afghanistan because combat operations will end in 2014, finance minister George Osborne said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Clinton vows no Afghan peace without women US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed Wednesday never to accept a peace agreement in Afghanistan that rolls back women's rights, despite reaching out to the Taliban for talks. ... more |
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