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Washington (AFP) - The United States is facing a new and "serious" national security threat, top officials warned Wednesday, with two media outlets reporting it involves a Russian attempt to build a space-based nuclear capability. ABC News and The New York Times quoted unidentified officials saying that Russia was developing a nuclear, space-based anti-satellite weapon. According to officials quoted in the Times, Russia has not yet deployed such a capability. In public, officials said there was no need for panic -- but refused to give details, only issuing cryptic statements about a serious ma...
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Washington (AFP) - The threat of more attacks against Kabul airport remains acute one day before the US military completes its withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of war, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Monday. Kirby said the evacuation operation at the airport, currently controlled by thousands of US troops, is on high alert after the Islamic State-Khorasan launched five rockets at the operation earlier Monday. The group last week carried out a suicide bombing at one of the airport's gates killing more than 100 people, including 13 US troops. And over the weekend a US drone-launched...
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Geneva (AFP) - Climate change has become the biggest threat to UN-listed natural world heritage sites like glaciers and wetlands, and has pushed Australia's Great Barrier Reef into "critical" condition, conservationists said Wednesday.The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) revealed in a new report that shifts due to the changing climate now imperil a full third of the 252 UNESCO-listed natural sites around the globe.Overall, 94 of the sites are facing significant or critical risk from a wide range of factors -- including tourism, hunting, fire and water pollution -- marking ...
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