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Embargoes fail to stem global weapon sales: reportUnited Nations (AFP) May 3, 2012 Countries under arms embargoes have imported more than $2.2 billion worth of weapons over the past decade, the Oxfam aid agency said Thursday in a report calling for tighter global rules. Several states have traded weapons "on a massive scale" despite being banned from the arms market, the humanitarian group said. Myanmar bought $600 million worth of weapons between 2000 and 2010, Iran purchased an estimated $574 million worth from 2007 to 2010 and the Democratic Republic of Congo spent $124 mil ... read more |
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  W. Africa bloc threatens coup leaders in Mali, G. Bissau West African presidents on Thursday threatened tougher action against coup leaders in Mali and Guinea-Bissau who have resisted efforts to fully restore civilian rule. ... more | .. |
  Rangers kill lioness roaming Nairobi district Kenya rangers on Thursday killed a lioness that strayed from a park in the capital Nairobi and had been roaming with four of her cubs in a nearby district for the past four months, a statement said. ... more | .. |
 Boko Haram targets media in Nigeria Militant Nigerian Islamic group Boko Haram is threatening the nation's media. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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  Egypt military says may transfer power on May 24 Egypt's military chief of staff said on Wednesday the army may transfer power to an elected president on May 24 if the vote is decided in the first round, state television reported. ... more | .. |
  Sudans on brink of all-out war over oil Sudan and the infant state of South Sudan, which became independent a scant 10 months ago after a decades-long civil conflict with the north, are once more on the brink of all-out war over the oil-rich borderlands both need to survive. ... more | .. |
 S. African official mulls support for shale gas exploration Controversial exploration of South Africa's Karoo region for shale gas might be worth the trouble if the work is subjected to strict controls, a national environment official said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 UN gives Sudan, South Sudan 48 hours to halt hostilities The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution giving Sudan and South Sudan 48 hours to halt hostilities or face potential sanctions. ... more |
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Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture
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  Israel's links with Egypt steadily worsen Israel's relations with Egypt are steadily deteriorating following the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak and the countries' historic 1979 peace treaty is growing increasingly tenuous. ... more | .. |
 Israel fences itself in with barriers Israel is building a concrete security wall to protect its northernmost border town of Metulla from attacks by Hezbollah, adding to the accelerating fortification of its frontiers with Egypt, Syria and the Palestinians. ... more | .. |
 Zimbabwe PM calls for reforms before election Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday called for peace and demanded political reforms before any election to replace a coalition government with his long time rival President Robert Mugabe. ... more | .. |
  Report claims Sarkozy, Kadhafi in 'secret' nuclear deal A French magazine is claiming that President Nicolas Sarkozy and Libya's ex-strongman Moamer Kadhafi reached a "secret deal" to trade nuclear cooperation for the release of foreign medics. ... more |
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  Libya honours chemical weapons plan deadline: OPCW Libya has honoured a deadline to hand in a detailed plan on the destruction of its aging stockpile of mustard gas, left from the Kadhafi regime, the world's chemical weapons watchdog said Monday. ... more | .. |
 DR Congo army pursuing rebels after clashes The Congolese army said Monday that it has launched an operation to reclaim territory lost after weekend clashes with rebels loyal to a wanted indicted war criminal. ... more | .. |
China to loan South Sudan $8 billion, Juba says China has agreed to loan oil-rich South Sudan eight billion dollars for infrastructure development, Juba government spokesman Barnaba Mariel Benjamin said on Saturday. ... more | .. |
 New Sudan air raids alleged as hungry flee A surging number of hungry refugees are fleeing fighting in Sudan where some are reduced to foraging in the wild, the UN said Monday, amid new allegations of Sudanese air strikes. ... more |
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DAMPE space telescope finds universal spectral feature that narrows field on cosmic ray origins
ThinKom Develops Self-Funded Mobile HPM Weapon to Counter Drone Swarms
Planet and Carbon Mapper Plan SWIR-Only Tanager Satellite for Wider Methane Detection | .. |
 Lebanon stops arms headed to Syria rebels: security official The Lebanese navy intercepted three containers of weapons destined for Syrian rebel forces on board a ship originating from Libya, a security official told AFP on Saturday. ... more | .. |
  Top Iraq politicians demand greater democracy Top Iraqi politicians, many of whom feel marginalised by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's style of governing, called on Saturday in Arbil for greater democracy in running the country. ... more | .. |
 West African summit on Guinea-Bissau set for Thursday Six west African heads of state will discuss the situation in Guinea-Bissau at a meeting in Dakar next week, the Senegalese government said late Friday. ... more | .. |
Civilians suffer as Sudan-S.Sudan troops face off on border On South Sudan's tense front line with Sudan, Southern troops lie in the shade of trees alongside the tanks hidden there from the spying eyes of Sudanese warplanes overhead. ... more |
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 Algeria's Islamists brace for May polling Algeria is deploying 60,000 security troops across the restive country amid campaigning for May parliamentary elections in which Islamists are running for the first time in two decades. ... more | .. |
  CFR: Universal healthcare requires mandate The United States is the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world but when it comes to healthcare coverage, it is only on par with developing nations like Ghana and Brazil, a Council on Foreign Relations report states. ... more | .. |
 Sierra Leone's gruesome 10-year civil war The civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2001, unleashed by rebels from the notorious Revolutionary United Front (RUF), was one of the most atrocious in Africa's recent history, leaving 120,000 dead and thousands of civilians mutilated. ... more | .. |
Egypt's gas cut may spur energy conflicts Egypt's decision to cut off natural gas supplies to Israel threatens the countries' historic 1979 peace treaty and could crank up simmering tensions over disputed offshore gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean. ... more |
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Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm
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S. Sudan leader to cut short China visit South Sudan's president will cut short his visit to China amid violence between the world's newest nation and Sudan, officials said Wednesday, as Beijing unveiled plans to send a peace envoy. ... more | .. |
 Iraq cuts anti-Qaeda militia pay Most of Iraq's remaining 40,000 anti-Qaeda militiamen have seen their pay cut by 20 percent this year following a decision by parliament, an aide to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told AFP on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  European body sees broad failures in Libya migrant deaths A catalogue of failures led to the deaths at sea last year of 63 African migrants who fled Libya during the conflict that ousted Moamer Kadhafi, a European rights body said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
China hosts S. Sudan president as oil dispute rages South Sudan's leader kicks off a visit to Beijing on Tuesday with the hosts keen to defuse a raging dispute between the fledgling nation and neighbouring Sudan that threatens Chinese oil supplies. ... more |
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  China signs onto PNG's world-first undersea mine Canada-based mining firm Nautilus Minerals said Tuesday it had signed China's Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group as the first customer of its pioneering Papua New Guinean sea-floor mine. ... more | .. |
 South Sudan leader says Khartoum has 'declared war' South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said Tuesday that Khartoum had "declared war" on his country, as violence between the world's newest nation and Sudan intensified. ... more | .. |
 Iran says nuclear 'capabilities' must be recognised Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Monday the West has to give a "correct assessment" of his country's atomic capabilities in important talks due to be held in Baghdad next week. ... more | .. |
 Iraq PM must not obtain F-16s: Kurdistan chief Massud Barzani, the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan, said he opposes the sale of F-16 warplanes to Iraq while Nuri al-Maliki is premier, as he fears they would be used against the region. ... more |
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