Topic: - on November 28, 2002 at 12:26:24 AM CET
Grenade Kills Three Kashmir Schoolboys
Three schoolboys mistook a live grenade for a cricket ball, hitting it and blowing themselves up Tuesday. The incident raised the death toll to at least 50 in the latest surge of bloodshed over the contested state of Kashmir.
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Topic: - on November 23, 2002 at 1:21:30 AM CET
Jet With Warpable Wings Tested
Engineers have lifted an idea from the birds, bees and brothers Wright in making the wings of a fighter jet being tested over the Mojave Desert. In nature, birds and bees morph their wings to maneuver, as did the plane flown by Orville and Wilbur Wright in their historic 1903 flights at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
¬> <a href="story.news.yahoo.com"target="_blank"> Associated Press
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Topic: - on November 22, 2002 at 12:41:44 PM CET
War Against Luxembourg
My name is Joseph Papparelli and I want to go to war against Luxembourg.
I am a sovereign nation known as the INDEPENDENT NATION OF PAPPARELLI. I am a completely sovereign and independent nation and I want to go to war against Luxembourg.
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Topic: - on November 20, 2002 at 5:22:51 PM CET
Army's New ‘smarTruck’
Equipped With Laser Gun and More
Inspired by 007
Dennis Wend's team created what is now called the "smarTruck," an 11,000-pound, 8-foot-wide, 22-foot-long behemoth of a vehicle. While it looks like an SUV with a glandular condition, the smarTruck is more of a truck, built on the bed of a Ford F-350.
¬> <a href="abcnews.go.com"target="_blank">abc
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Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 11:31:04 AM CET
Unmoralische Zahlungen?
Die Unterstützung afghanischer Warlords gegen das Taliban-Regime haben sich die USA 70 Millionen Dollar Kosten lassen. Das schreibt Bob Woodward, Starjournalist und Watergate-Aufdecker, in seinem neuesten Buch.
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Topic: - on November 18, 2002 at 10:42:00 AM CET
Pentagon readies microwave bomb for Baghdad
The Pentagon has accelerated development of a new generation of advanced precision weaponry that could be ready for use in a high-tech battle for Baghdad, according to US military sources.
Weapons ready for battlefield deployment include a microwave bomb that emits powerful pulses of energy to destroy enemy electronics, disable communications and even block vehicle ignitions, without hurting bystanders.
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Topic: - on November 18, 2002 at 12:44:08 AM CET
Hitler 'tested cocaine for troops'
THE Nazis developed a cocaine-based drug to boost the performance of their soldiers in combat during World War II and tested it on prisoners in 1944, according to a magazine report. "It was Hitler's last secret weapon to win a war he had already lost long ago," criminologist Wolf Kemper told Focus magazine. He is about to publish a book on the Third Reich's use of drugs called Nazis on Speed.
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Topic: - on November 18, 2002 at 12:34:19 AM CET
North Korea admits nuclear arsenal
North Korean radio on Sunday broadcast a commentary which said that the country possessed nuclear weapons. Below are excerpts from the commentary entitled 'The United States is the culprit that abrogated international agreements and conventions':
The United States is currently engaged in wickedly slandering and injuring our Republic under the pretext of the Korean peninsula's nuclear issue.
¬> <a href="news.bbc.co.uk"target="_blank">BBC
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Topic: - on November 12, 2002 at 12:49:11 PM CET
Spy satellites scanning targets every two hours
AMERICAN spy satellites are scanning key targets throughout Iraq at least once every two hours in a concentrated surveillance operation which can pick out objects as small as six inches across in daylight and two to three feet wide at night.
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Topic: - on November 12, 2002 at 12:47:15 PM CET
Rocket attack on coalition force in Afghanistan
Up to 15 rockets have been fired at coalition forces in Afghanistan in what the United States military says is an unusually well-organised attack.
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Topic: - on November 12, 2002 at 12:44:05 PM CET
The text of the U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq
that was unanimously approved Friday: The Security Council,
Recalling all its previous relevant resolutions, in particular its resolutions 661 (1990) of 6 August 1990, 678 (1990) of 29 November 1990, 686 (1991) of 2 March 1991, 687 (1991) of 3 April 1991, 688 (1991) of 5 April 1991, 707 (1991) of 15 August 1991, 715 (1991) of 11 October 1991, 986 (1995) of 14 April 1995, and 1284 (1999) of 17 December 1999, and all the relevant statements of its President.
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Topic: - on November 10, 2002 at 12:29:34 AM CET
Half-A-Million March in Anti-War Rally in Italy
More than half a million anti-war protesters from across Europe marched through this Italian Renaissance city on Saturday in a loud and colorful demonstration denouncing any possible U.S. attack on Iraq. Brimming with anti-American feelings and riled by a tough new U.N. resolution to disarm Iraq, young and old activists from as far afield as Russia and Portugal joined forces for the carnival-like rally, singing Communist anthems and 1970s peace songs.
¬> <a href="story.news.yahoo.com"target="_blank">Reuters
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