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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
North Korea 'ratifies' nuclear strike against US
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Shortly after the US said it was preparing to deploy an advanced missile-defense system to Guam, Pyongyang announced it had approved nuclear attack on the US. Meanwhile there are reports that North Korea is moving a mid-range missile to its east coast.
The reports by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency did not indicate whether the missile was mounted with a warhead. It’s not yet clear whether Pyongyang was planning to fire the weapon, or was just displaying it as a show of force.
"South Korean and US intelligence authorities have obtained indications the North has moved an object that appears to be a mid-range missile to the east coast," the agency said citing a South Korean government source. The missile is believed to be a mid-range Musudan missile, with a reach of some 3,000 km or more.
"South Korean and US intelligence authorities have obtained indications the North has moved an object that appears to be a mid-range missile to the east coast," the agency said citing a South Korean government source. The missile is believed to be a mid-range Musudan missile, with a reach of some 3,000 km or more.
This comes as the North Korean army says it has final approval for nuclear attack on the US. "Merciless operation of its revolutionary armed forces in this regard has been finally examined and ratified," said a spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army, according to the statement released by the state KCNA news agency.
"We formally inform the White House and Pentagon that the ever-escalating US hostile policy toward the DPRK and its reckless nuclear threat will be smashed by the strong will of all the united service personnel and people."
The White House has responded by urging Pyongyang to stop making threats, describing the statement as “provocative.”
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Israel launches airstrikes on Gaza
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Israel has launched, Wednesday 3.4, air raids on Gaza Strip, the first such attacks since a truce ended eight days of fighting, in which 170 Palestinians and six Israelis were killed, in November. Earlier on Tuesday, a Palestinian mortars fired at Israel. The Israeli military said in a statement that its aircraft had targeted "two extensive terror sites" overnight and that "accurate hits were identified".
Israel has launched, Wednesday 3.4, air raids on Gaza Strip, the first such attacks since a truce ended eight days of fighting, in which 170 Palestinians and six Israelis were killed, in November. Earlier on Tuesday, a Palestinian mortars fired at Israel. The Israeli military said in a statement that its aircraft had targeted "two extensive terror sites" overnight and that "accurate hits were identified".
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Top scientists to Obama: Ban mutation experiments that will make avian flu more infectious
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group of leading scientists – including a Nobel Prize winner - has proclaimed that it is “ethically and morally” wrong to alter the deadly H5N1 virus to make it more contagious for research purposes, and have asked President Obama to ban it.
“The accidental release of an artificial, laboratory-generated, human-transmissible H5N1 virus into the community has the potential to cause a global pandemic of epic proportions that would dwarf the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed over 50 million people,” read a letter to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
The petition was drafted by the Foundation for Vaccine Research (FVR), a scientific advocacy group, and numbered world-leading biologists among the 17 signatories, including Lord May, the former chief science advisor to the UK government, and Sir Richard Roberts, the recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Medicine, for genetics research.
Late in 2011, two groups of scientists courted controversy, when they prepared to publish studies showing a modified version of the avian flu virus that could be passed through the air between mammals. In its current form, the virus, which has killed 60 percent of those it infects, is not easily caught by people from birds, and is even more difficult to transmit from one human to another.
Israel hits Syrian outpost in response to cross-border fire
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Israeli troops fired tank shells at a Syrian army post Tuesday night after Syrian fighting spilled over into Israel in two separate incidents.
The response came a few hours after an IDF patrol on the border came under light fire from across the border and a Syrian mortar landed in the southern Golan Heights. There were no reports of injuries or damage in either incident.
The attacks came shortly after Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, during a tour of the border area, vowed to continue responding to cross-border Syrian fire.
The Israeli tanks hit an outpost at Tel Hazeka, close to where the patrol came under fire. It is not known if there were casualties on the Syrian side. The IDF said it “accurately targeted the source,” of the fire.
In the late afternoon, a shell fired from Syria slammed into Israel near Tel Fares.
Israel has come under spillover fire from Syria’s civil war from time to time, responding on occasions by shooting missiles back into the Syrian Golan Heights, where anti-Bashar Assad rebels are waging a bloody battle for control of the country.
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