ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s strategic forces on Thursday successfully test-fired a Hatf 5 Ghauri medium-range ballistic missile, the military said.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Reports from fleeing North Koreans of food shortages and the suspension of international aid after the country’s nuclear test suggest the communist state may be slipping into famine, an aid worker said on Monday.
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Rice mentioned three reasons why the United States is currently unable to carry out a military operation against Iran: the wish to solve the crisis through peaceful means; concern that a military strike will be ineffective - that it would fail to completely destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities; and the lack of precise intelligence on the [...]

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s ISNA news agency reported on Monday that the country’s president said he wanted to install 60,000 centrifuges as part of Iran’s nuclear program — not 100,000 as the agency previously quoted him as saying.
Centrifuges are used to make fuel for nuclear power stations but can produce material for atomic warheads, which [...]

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The New Yorker reports Israel transferred intelligence information gathered by its agents in Iran indicating that the Islamic Republic has developed, tested equipment used for nuclear armament; White House has yet to disclose information to CIA.
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NATO needs to guard against Russian attempts to establish an “OPEC for gas” as a means of increasing its power in Europe, advisors to the military alliance have warned in a confidential report, British daily the Financial Times said last week.
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Iran’s nuclear programme and considerable resources enable it to strive for strategic dominance in its region. With the impetus of a radical Shi’ite ideology and the symbolism of defiance of the United Nations security council’s resolution, Iran challenges the established order in the Middle East and perhaps wherever Islamic populations face dominant, non-Islamic majorities.
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TOKYO — Japan has embarked on a path no developed nation has ever followed — of sustained and inexorable population decline.
Japan won’t be alone, of course. Italy, Russia, South Korea and many others also will get smaller. The United States is the exception among advanced nations, and not only thanks to immigration; its overall birth [...]

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that his country wants to have 100,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium, the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported.
“We intend to have 100,000 centrifuges and, God willing, Iran will be able to meet its needs in nuclear fuel by next year,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
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We in the West write novels and film scripts about killing our American President, while those in the Middle East plan it, as their latest vows to blow up the White House attest. Better yet, we supposed liberals–not Nazis, communists, or monarchs–now will censor our own cartoons, operas, films, novels, and Pope, as if the [...]

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