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After rocket fiasco, N. Korea may test bomb: analystsHong Kong (AFP) April 13, 2012 The humiliating failure of North Korea's much-publicised rocket launch may push the hermit state into testing a nuclear bomb in an attempt to save face, analysts said Friday. Touted as a glorious demonstration of North Korean technology to mark the centenary of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-Sung, the rocket turned into a damp squib when it crashed into the sea. The 30-metre (100-foot) Unha-3 (Galaxy-3) rocket blasted off early Friday morning from a newly built space centre on the country's ... read more |
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  China gripped by Bo saga worthy of Hollywood The spectacular fall from grace of Chinese Communist Party leader Bo Xilai has triggered a riveting political scandal seeped in twists and turns worthy of a Hollywood thriller or detective novel. ... more | .. |
  Commentary: Loose lips sink ships The U.S. high command in Afghanistan has evidently decided to inform Taliban chieftain Mullah Omar of military action plans before U.S. and allied forces leave in 2014 - if not sooner. ... more | .. |
  China backs UN amid plans to send observers to Syria China said Friday it backed UN efforts to mediate the Syrian crisis, as Western nations began drawing up plans to send UN monitors to the restive state where a fragile ceasefire appears to be holding. ... more | .. |
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 US seeks low-key pressure on N.Korea North Korea's defiant and apparently hapless rocket launch poses a challenge for world powers - how to condemn the communist state without setting off a chain reaction of new tensions. ... more | .. |
 Long silence in North Korea after rocket failure News of North Korea's abortive rocket launch was flashed around the world Friday but there were four long hours of silence before Pyongyang admitted the highly publicised attempt had failed. ... more | .. |
 US wants separate summit with Putin at G8 in May: Moscow The United States wants to hold a separate summit with Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Group of Eight meeting at Camp David in May, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. ... more | .. |
 West condemns N.Korean launch; China, Russia urge restraint The US and its allies rushed to condemn North Korea's failed rocket launch Friday as a provocative act that threatens regional security, while Russia, China and India urged all parties to show restraint. ... more |
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 Uranium enrichment key focus in Iran talks Persuading Iran to scale back its enrichment of uranium, which can be used for peaceful purposes but also for nuclear weapons, will be the key aim of world powers in upcoming talks, analysts say. ... more | .. |
  Fourth Boeing-built WGS Satellite Accepted by USAF Boeing reports that the U.S. Air Force accepted control of the fourth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) military communications satellite on April 11, after the spacecraft passed several weeks of rigorou ... more | .. |
  Pakistan approves new guidelines for US ties Pakistan's parliament on Thursday unanimously approved new guidelines on relations with the United States which include a ban on transporting weapons through the country to Afghanistan. ... more | .. |
 G8 powers urge Iran to hold 'constructive dialogue' World powers Thursday urged Iran to begin a "constructive and serious dialogue" to answer international concerns over its suspect nuclear program as talks in Istanbul loom at the weekend. ... more |
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  British police arrest boys over anti-terror leak British police on Thursday arrested two teenaged boys in connection with the release of recorded conversations between staff on the country's anti-terrorist hotline. ... more | .. |
 Coup attempt in G.Bissau, attack on PM's residence Guinea-Bissau troops staged a coup attempt late Thursday, attacking the prime minister's residence and taking over ruling party headquarters and the national radio station. ... more | .. |
  Indian navy commissions third UAV squadron The Indian navy has commissioned its third unmanned aerial vehicle squadron. ... more | .. |
  Iraq electoral officials jailed until Sunday A judge from Iraq's anti-corruption watchdog has ordered the head of the nation's electoral commission and another member of the panel to be jailed until Sunday, a fellow commission member told AFP. ... more |
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Climate change increases risk of successive natural hazards in the Himalayas
GMV teams up with +Atlantic CoLAB in AIR4Health project to enhance public health forecasting
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 No Afghan 'security vacuum' after 2014: NATO chief NATO will not leave a "security vacuum" in Afghanistan after its troops pull out in 2014, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen pledged Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Ethnic tensions high in N. Kosovo city Violence this week in Mitrovica, an ethnically mixed city in northern Kosovo, has brought condemnations from European and U.N. authorities. ... more | .. |
 Outside View: Iran at the Rubicon In January 49 B.C., the army of Julius Caesar stood before a bridge crossing the Rubicon River separating the province of Gaul - where Caesar was governor - from Italy proper. As governor he had the right to lead an army within his province. But taking it across the river into Italy proper was deemed a challenge to the Roman Senate's authority - an act prohibited by law and punishable as treason. ... more | .. |
 Iran says no atomic retreat, ahead of talks Iran "will not retreat an iota" from its nuclear rights, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday, ahead of weekend talks in Istanbul with world powers over Tehran's atomic activities. ... more |
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 Good morning Tehran! Israel reaches out across the airwaves From a tiny studio in a rundown district of southern Tel Aviv, a group of Iranian-Israelis beam non-stop music and news in a bid to reach out to their former fellow countrymen. ... more | .. |
 Syrian gunfire hits Turkey refugee camp again: report Syrian gunfire targeting refugees trying to cross into Turkey hit a camp on the Turkish side of the border on Thursday, the Anatolia news agency reported, the third such incident this week. ... more | .. |
 Foreign media in North Korea: openness or propaganda? North Korea, one of the most secretive nations on Earth, has invited nearly 200 foreign journalists and thrown open the doors of its space programme in a dramatic gesture seen as either a propaganda campaign or a new era of openness. ... more | .. |
  Ukraine jails ex-defence minister for 5 years A former Ukrainian defence minister who served under the jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday on abuse of office charges. ... more |
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World awaits Trump tariff deadline on Canada, Mexico and China
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 Communist paper urges unity after China scandal China's top Communist Party newspaper on Thursday urged the country to unite behind the ruling party, as it seeks to minimise the fallout from the high-profile purge of top leader Bo Xilai. ... more | .. |
 US-Afghan talks face tough hurdle over troops Washington and Kabul have hailed breakthroughs towards signing a treaty on relations after 2014 - but it will not cover the crucial issue of the status of any US troops remaining in Afghanistan. ... more | .. |
 Iran and West meet Saturday for another go at nuclear talks Western powers and Iran are meeting again Saturday to hash out Tehran's promised "new initiatives" on its nuclear activities, albeit with little hope in the West for a breakthrough in the deadlock. ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Achieves Major Milestone in Electronic Warfare Technology Northrop Grumman recently celebrated the completion of its 2,000th microwave power module,an integral component in radars, jammers and other military electronics. Microwave power modules are d ... more |
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DPRK Satellite Launch Disregards UN Says Russia Russia considers Pyongyang's decision to launch a scientific rocket to place a satellite in earth orbit as disregarding UN Security Council resolutions , Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander ... more | .. |
  New ISRO centre to control spy satellite launch The Indian rocket that will carry the 1,850 kg indigenous surveillance satellite - Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) - to the skies this month will be controlled by the new mission control centre at ... more | .. |
 BAE Systems uses Paramarine marine design software for design of latest Royal Navy frigates Paramarine advanced marine design software, developed by QinetiQ GRC, is being used by BAE Systems' Maritime - Naval Ships business, in the assessment phase for the design of the latest Royal Navy f ... more | .. |
 Israel PM to seek direct talks with Abbas at Fayyad meet Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu will propose holding direct talks with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas when he meets prime minister Salam Fayyad in Jerusalem next week, his office said on Wednesday. ... more |
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