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North Korea has intensified activities at weapons sites after threatening to stage more nuclear and missile tests in response to UN sanctions, a South Korean newspaper reported Thursday. The Chosun Ilbo said busy movements of vehicles and people had been spotted in the northeastern county of Kilju, where the communist state carried out its first atomic test in October 2006. The North has ... read more 
Washington (AFP) May 7, 2009The cost of fighting the war in Afghanistan will overtake that of the Iraq conflict for the first time in 2010, Pentagon budget documents showed Thursday. On top of the basic defense budget of 533.7 billion dollars, the White House is requesting a further 130 billion dollars for overseas missions, including 65 billion for Afghanistan and 61 billion for Iraq. "This request is where you'r ... more
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Mumbai (AFP) May 7, 2009The rise in Islamist militancy in Pakistan could become the biggest threat to world peace since the Cuban missile crisis, a former senior US diplomat said here Thursday. Washington's former ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill, said the scale of extremism in Pakistan was now so great that it was "inevitable" that the international community would have to deal with it in the years to come. ... more 
Herat, Afghanistan (AFP) May 7, 2009Angry Afghans shouted "death to America" and hurled stones at government offices Thursday to protest against the killing of civilians in US-led air strikes, witnesses said. Shots were also fired into the air during the protest, although it was not immediately clear by whom, while one demonstrator said the protest in the western town of Farah was gaining strength and threatened to turn violen ... more 
Beijing (AFP) May 7, 2009China hit back on Thursday at Japan Prime Minister Taro Aso after he said Beijing's defence spending was not transparent and it was modernising its atomic weapons. "China's nuclear strategy and policy are very clear, and our advocacy of nuclear disarmament is widely recognised," foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters. "I wonder what aim the Japanese leader is attempting to a ... more 
Cairo (AFP) May 7, 2009Egypt on Thursday dismissed as "erroneous and old" reports that the UN's nuclear watchdog is investigating traces of enriched uranium at an Egyptian nuclear facility. Reports of an investigation "into the discovery by the International Atomic Energy Agency of traces of enriched uranium in Egypt are erroneous and old," foreign ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said in a statement. "It's surp ... more |
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Washington (AFP) May 7, 2009The United States and Russia vowed Thursday that tension over the former Soviet state of Georgia will not torpedo negotiations to replace a Cold War-era nuclear arms control treaty. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov insisted plans for a follow-on Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) trumped their concerns over Georgia, with which Russia fought ... more 
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) May 7, 2009The eldest son of the Islamist cleric who signed a shaky peace deal with the government in northwest Pakistan was killed in a military air strike Thursday, a spokesman for his father said. Maulana Kifayatullah, 50 and the eldest of Sufi Mohammad's 12 sons, was killed when war planes bombed an area near the town of Lal Qila, in the northwest district of Lower Dir, spokesman Ameer Izzat Khan ... more 
Tbilisi (AFP) May 7, 2009Domestic political tensions flared again in ex-Soviet Georgia Thursday after police and protesters clashed in Tbilisi at the start of controversial NATO military exercises that have infuriated Russia. The clashes late Wednesday - the first major outbreak of violence since opposition protests against President Mikheil Saakashvili began a month ago - came only a day after Georgia said it had ... more 
Beijing (AFP) May 7, 2009The US envoy to North Korea said Thursday that Washington was willing to negotiate with Pyongyang, as he began a trip aimed at convincing the reclusive state to resume nuclear disarmament talks. "The United States reiterates its desire to engage both multilaterally and bilaterally with North Korea," Stephen Bosworth told reporters after a meeting with China's foreign minister Yang Jiechi. ... more |
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