 Pakistan successfully tested an indigenous short-range, nuclear-capable missile on Saturday, the military said. The surface-to-surface Abdali ballistic missile — with a range of 125 miles — was launched from an undisclosed location inside Pakistan. The missile "can carry all types of warheads," the military said in a statement issued from Rawalpindi, a garrison city near the capital, Islamabad. The military did not provide any further details, but Pakistan and its nuclear-armed rival, neighboring India, routinely test missiles. Meanwhile, fighting between local and foreign militants Friday killed 52 people, bringing to more than 200 the number of dead in recent days in a conflict between Pakistanis and suspected al Qaeda-linked extremists, a senior official said...
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 Bogus greenbacks from North Korea close to 'perfect' |
Kim Il-nam's first encounter with counterfeit US currency was embarrassing. On an overseas trip several years ago, the N Korean diplomat took a $100 bill from a wad of more than $7,000 he had received from the Trade Bank in Pyongyang to the front desk of his hotel. "I had to buy some toiletries, so I asked the cashier at the hotel front desk to change one of the new bills," said Mr. Kim, who uses a pseudonym to protect his identity since defecting. "She took my note away & returned, saying, 'Sir, this is fake.' I felt like a criminal & protested to the Trade Bank when I got back to Pyongyang." Things are different now. A new generation of fake "supernotes," far harder to detect, has appeared, counterfeiting experts say. Feeling the latest $100 bill from North Korea, Yoshihide Matsumura, whose Matsumura Technology Co. supplies counterfeit-detection machinery to Japan's post offices, banks & law- enforcement agencies, said: "This is the closest to perfect counterfeit US money ever made" ...
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| U.S. Carrier Nimitz to Deploy to Persian Gulf |
Nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz will sail April 2 to support U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Navy said, amid a spike in tensions over Iran’s seizure of 15 British marines and sailors.The Nimitz, and its battle group of destroyers and guided-missile cruisers, will relieve the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, which this week took part in war games exercises in the Gulf with another carrier, John C. Stennis.The new battle group will be in position by late April, but there will be no overlap with the Eisenhower, and the number of U.S. carriers in the area would stay at two, a navy official said on condition of anonymity."If anything, there would be a point where there is only one in the region," the official said, on condition of anonymity.The Stennis and the Eisenhower wound down their show of force involving 15 warships in the Gulf on March 29....
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| Vietnam sentences priest to prison |
A court sentenced a dissident Catholic priest to eight years in prison yesterday for anti-government activities after a dramatic trial in which the defendant shouted denunciations of the ruling Communist Party. A judge at Thua Thien Hue Provincial People's Court in central Vietnam sentenced the Rev. Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly on charges of disseminating anti-government documents and communicating with pro-democracy activists overseas. It was the first time the government has opened a high-profile dissident's trial to reporters. Authorities said Father Ly, 60 -- who has been jailed twice before for his pro-democracy activities -- was plotting to merge his Vietnam Progression Party with overseas democracy activists. ...
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| Kiev set to stage rival protests |
Tens of thousands of protesters are expected on the streets of Kiev in Ukraine for rival rallies amid an escalating political crisis. The pro-Western President, Viktor Yushchenko, has threatened to call a snap election. He is caught in a growing power struggle with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who is more pro-Russian. Mr Yushchenko's supporters will take to the streets again, just as they did two years ago during the Orange Revolution. Then, mass protests brought him to office. Now, President Yushchenko's supporters want him to call a new election and dissolve parliament, which is currently controlled by the arch-enemy of the Orange Revolution, Mr Yanukovych. The rally has been organised by the opposition. It claims the pro-Russian ruling coalition is illegally trying to seize power. ...
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| Hispanics upset with Ken Burns’ WWII film Groups say documentary ignores Latinos’ contributions to war effort |
Hispanic groups unhappy with an upcoming Ken Burns documentary on World War II are stepping up pressure on PBS because they say the series omits mention of the role Latinos played in the war. The latest group to take their grievance to PBS is the American GI Forum, a Hispanic veterans group that has waged numerous civil rights battles for Hispanics and Hispanic veterans. The American GI Forum is appealing to Hispanic veterans and other Latino groups to write members of Congress and their local PBS affiliates about the documentary, “The War,” which has been six years in the making. This week, GI Forum President Antonio Morales of Fort Worth, Texas, and other Latino leaders met in Washington with PBS President Paula Kerger to lodge their complaints about the 14-hour Burns documentary set to air this September, Hispanic Heritage month....
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