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Search for missing Titanic sub like 'going into space'
AFP, Published on 21/06/2023
» LOS ANGELES: Rescuers desperately searching for the orca-sized submersible that vanished on its way to visit the wreck of the Titanic face a gargantuan task that will test the limits of technical know-how, experts say.
Sister city strains
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/05/2023
» City officials in the northern German port of Kiel were flattered this year when the Chinese port of Qingdao -- about 40 times its size -- proposed partnering up as a sister city. They rushed to embrace the offer.
Typhoon Mawar leaves trail of destruction as it moves from Guam
AFP, Published on 25/05/2023
» LOS ANGELES - A typhoon that slammed into Guam, knocking out power and flooding buildings with a powerful storm surge, was moving away Thursday -- leaving residents of the US Pacific Ocean territory to survey the damage.
Typhoon Mawar pounds Guam
AFP, Published on 24/05/2023
» LOS ANGELES: Typhoon Mawar made a slow and brutal pass over the US territory of Guam on Wednesday, knocking out power as ferocious winds smashed windows and storm surges flooded buildings in the worst storm to hit the Pacific military outpost in decades.
Apple engineer from China among US tech theft cases
AFP, Published on 17/05/2023
» WASHINGTON - The United States announced charges on Tuesday against several Chinese and Russian nationals accused of stealing trade secrets and violating sanctions by seeking to export sensitive technology.
US nuclear sub heading to South Korea
AFP, Published on 26/04/2023
» WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden greeted his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol for a state visit Wednesday at which they will announce a beefed-up US nuclear shield for Washington's vital ally in the face of an aggressive North Korea.
China pushes largest-ever expansion of nuclear arsenal
AFP, Published on 26/04/2023
» HONG KONG: China is pushing ahead with the largest-ever expansion of its nuclear arsenal, modernising the atomic deterrent with an eye on any future conflicts with the United States, experts say.
North Korea says it tested new solid-fuel ICBM
AFP, Published on 14/04/2023
» SEOUL (SOUTH KOREA) - North Korea said Friday it had successfully tested a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, which state media hailed as a key breakthrough for the country's nuclear counterattack capabilities.
Pyongyang unveils smaller nuclear warheads
Published on 28/03/2023
» SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for stepped-up production of “weapon-grade nuclear materials”, state media said on Tuesday, as Pyongyang unveiled what appeared to be a new, smaller tactical nuclear warhead.
An anxious Asia arms for a war it hopes to prevent
Published on 26/03/2023
» TINIAN, Northern Mariana Islands: The tiny island of Tinian was the launch point for U.S. planes carrying atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now a new runway is being carved from the jungle, just south of World War II ruins.