At least 2.2 million migrants will arrive in the rich world every year from now until 2050, the United Nations said yesterday.
The latest figures from the UN’s population division predict a global upheaval without parallel in human history over the next four decades.
There will be billions more people in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. [...]

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Russia’s air force chief said on Tuesday Moscow was working on a new generation air defence system after the United States announced plans to deploy a missile shield in Eastern Europe.
Gen. Vladimir Mikhailov said the new technology would go further than the existing S-400 (Triumph) anti-aircraft missile system, which has a range of [...]

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The five nations designated nuclear weapons states under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968 are:
RUSSIA: Russia has the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, believed to number around 16,000. As of 2005, Russia is estimated to have around 7,200 active nuclear warheads in its arsenal, and around 8,800 inactive or on “inactive reserve”. Former Soviet [...]

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World war II began with a pact between two major dictatorships. In 1939 Hitler and Stalin joined together to destroy Poland. Isn’t it possible that the next world war will involve a similar pact between dictators?
People do not read history as they should, and do not recognize the pattern of tyranny, the classic behaviors [...]

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Revolutionary Guards university held conference on ‘chemical, biological and nuclear wars.
Iran’s Imam Hossein University held a conference last year “in the field of chemical, biological, and nuclear wars,” Ynetnews has learned.
In an announcement published on the university’s website, which is no longer online, the university declared: “With the help of the almighty God, the third [...]

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Russia warned Iran on Tuesday of “irreversible consequences” for the Bushehr nuclear power station project should Tehran fail to resolve a financing dispute, state-run RIA Novosti reported.
“We cannot wait longer for a decision by the Iranian side,” Vladimir Pavlov, director for Russian contractor Atomstroiexport’s Bushehr work, was quoted as saying. “Delays in restarting the financing [...]

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Anti-American sentiment runs high here, with more than half of 1,000 people surveyed in a recent BBC poll saying they viewed the United States’ influence in the world as mainly negative. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percent.
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BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel, sharpening her government’s opposition to Poland’s decision to accept part of a U.S. missile shield on its territory, said Tuesday that the issue should be submitted to NATO and not decided on a bilateral basis with Washington.
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China has expressed strong disapproval of the recent US decision to sell a variety of air-to-air missiles to Taiwan. But while Beijing may be genuinely unhappy with the sales, it does provide China’s leaders with a useful lever with which to pressure Europe to lift the arms embargo it imposed after the Tiananmen crackdown in [...]

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Because China represents such a large potential market, it has been able to enlist help from the world’s largest companies, including General Electric and Sony as it develops.
As a result, some experts say, China’s trade relations with the US and other nations hold an unusual risk as well as opportunities for shared prosperity. The threat [...]

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MOSCOW, March 13 — A United Nations observer mission in Georgia on Tuesday opened an investigation into missile attacks in three remote Georgian villages, and the initial evidence suggested that Russian helicopter gunships were involved.
The military action, which occurred Sunday night and damaged several buildings in the Kodori Gorge, a mountainous area of the Caucasus [...]

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Putin just can’t wait to restore Russia’s great power status. Good luck. Great powers don’t exist in isolation. Rather than building useful alliances, Putin has frightened his neighbors into closer relations with NATO and the West, alienated Europeans who longed to hug him - and made even the most gullible Americans wary.
Putin is a [...]

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