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Japan's swimmer Terakawa lays down Olympic marker
Japan's Aya Terakawa clocked the world's second fastest time of the season to win the women's 100 metres backstroke at the Japan Open swimming championships, laying down a marker ahead of the Olympics.
Analysts play down higher-grade uranium find in Iran
Analysts have played down the UN atomic agency's discovery of higher-grade uranium traces in Iran, saying it was likely due to a technical glitch rather than a covert attempt to enrich to arms grade.
SpaceX capsule docks at space station, opens new era
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship and guided the privately owned craft into a docking berth on Friday, opening a new chapter in the U.S. space program. The unmanned capsule was the first commercial spaceship to reach the orbital outpost. "This really is t......
SpaceX's Dragon makes historic space station dock
SpaceX became the first commercial outfit to send its own cargo capsule to the International Space Station, heralding the start of a new era for private spaceflight.
Russian arms shipment en route to Syria: report
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A Russian cargo ship loaded with weapons is en route to Syria and due to arrive at a Syrian port this weekend, Al Arabiya television said in a report that Western diplomats in New York described on Friday as credible. Syria is one of Russia's top weapons customers. The United States and European Union have suggested the U......
US drone 'kills four militants' in NW Pakistan
A US drone attack has killed at least four militants in a northwestern Pakistani tribal district bordering Afghanistan, according to security officials.
Exclusive: Syria grain trade signals alarm for Assad
LONDON/HAMBURG (Reuters) - Syria is struggling to meet its grain import needs because of sanctions, raising the risk of bread shortages that could sap public support for President Bashar al-Assad as he tries to snuff out a 15-month-old uprising. Trade sources said a reluctance among foreign banks, shipowners and grain traders to sell to import-depe......
Russian arms shipment en route to Syria: report
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A Russian cargo ship loaded with weapons is en route to Syria and due to arrive at a Syrian port this weekend, Al Arabiya television said in a report that Western diplomats in New York described on Friday as credible. Syria is one of Russia's top weapons customers. The United States and European Union have suggested the U......
UN agency finds higher enrichment at Iranian site
Inspectors have located radioactive traces at an Iranian underground bunker, the U.N. atomic agency said Friday ? a finding that could mean Iran has moved closer to reaching the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles.
U.N. inspectors find high-grade uranium traces in Iran
VIENNA (Reuters) - United Nations nuclear inspectors have found uranium particles refined to a higher-than-expected level at an underground site where Iran has installed more than 50 percent more enrichment centrifuges, a U.N. watchdog report said on Friday. It said Tehran had told the U.N. agency that the presence of traces of highly refined urani......
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