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 Vienna (AFP) May 25, 2009 
The "event" North Korea says was a nuclear test Monday measured 4.5 on the Richter scale and was within a couple of kilometres of a previous test in October 2006, a UN-backed group said. But the preparatory committee for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation could not yet determine whether the event had "a nuclear background," the organisation's executive secretary, Tibor To ... read more
Tehran (AFP) May 25, 2009Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday ruled out any talks with world powers on Tehran's nuclear drive, but said he was open to a debate with US President Barack Obama. "We have said this before and we are saying it right now, that we will not talk about the nuclear issue with those outside the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)," he told journalistsom international news orga ... more
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Washington (AFP) May 25, 2009North Korea is "increasingly belligerent", the US top military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, said Monday, adding there was no reason to disbelieve the Asian nation's claim it carried out a nuclear test. "They grow increasingly belligerent," Mullen told CNN. "While it will take us a couple of days to verify this test, certainly there's no indication that it wasn't as they say. "We weren't ... more  
Kabul (AFP) May 25, 2009The Afghan and US militaries Monday played down a report that US-supplied weapons and ammunition were ending up in the hands of Taliban insurgents, saying the munitions were strictly controlled. The New York Times reported last week that ammunition recovered last month from the bodies of insurgents killed in eastern Afghanistan included rounds identical to those supplied by US forces to thei ... more 
Washington (AFP) May 25, 2009Global leaders quickly directed their anger at North Korea on Monday for carrying out a nuclear bomb test that US President Barack Obama called a threat to world peace. While South Korea put its military on alert, the UN Security Council called an emergency meeting to discuss the North Korean explosion - a much bigger follow-up to its first nuclear test in 2006 - and reports that it also t ... more 
Seoul (AFP) May 25, 2009North Korea on Monday tested a nuclear bomb many times more powerful than its first in 2006, angering enemies and allies alike and prompting UN Security Council members to call an emergency session. The hardline communist state, which stunned the world with its first atomic bomb test in October 2006, made good on its threat to stage another test after the Security Council censured it for an ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) May 25, 2009French firm Dassault Aviation, expelled from a 12-billion-dollar Indian warjet contract, is now likely to rejoin the race with five other global firms vying for the deal, officials said Monday. "Dassault Aviation has been cleared to put up its Rafale fighter jet for field trials," an Indian defence ministry official said, adding that the approval came last week from the government's policy ... more 
Seoul (AFP) May 25, 2009North Korea said it had carried out a second and more powerful nuclear test on Monday, despite international pressure to rein in its nuclear programmes after years of disarmament talks. The communist state, which stunned the world by testing an atomic bomb for the first time in October 2006, had threatened another test after the UN Security Council censured it following a long-range rocket ... more 
Washington (AFP) May 24, 2009Iran is clearly moving closer to acquiring a nuclear weapons capability but military strikes to counter the program would have serious unintended consequences, the top US military officer said Sunday. "I think the unintended consequence of a strike against Iran right now would be incredibly serious, as well as the unintended consequences of their achieving a weapon," Admiral Mike Mullen, the ... more  
Washington (AFP) May 24, 2009The withdrawal of US combat forces from Iraqi cities by the end of June remains "very much on track" despite a spike in violence there, the top US military officer said Sunday. Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also said US force levels in Iraq would drop to between 35,000 and 50,000 troops by August of 2010. "We've had an uptick in violence, but the over ... more |
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