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A super-powered neutrino generator could in theory be used to instantly destroy nuclear weapons anywhere on the planet, according to a team of Japanese scientists. If it was ever built, a state could use the device to obliterate the nuclear arsenal of its enemy by firing a beam of neutrinos straight through the Earth. But the generator would need to be more than a hundred times more powerful than any existing particle accelerator and over 1000 kilometres wide. "It is really quite futuristic," Alfons Weber, a neutrino scientist at Oxford University, UK, told New Scientist. "But the maths and physics...

Africa coup 'plotters' could face execution By Tim Butcher in Johannesburg (Filed: 11/03/2004) Zimbabwe yesterday accused Britain, the United States and Spain of plotting a coup in the oil-rich African nation of Equatorial Guinea and threatened 67 alleged mercenaries arrested at Harare airport with the death penalty. President Thabo Mbeki and Robert Mugabe Kembo Mohadi, Zimbabwe's home affairs minister, claimed that Simon Mann, the British leader of the group and a former member of the SAS, confessed under police questioning to a plan to oust President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea. The leader of the small west African state...

So is the long range plan by Texas Democrats to have House Democrats follow Senate Democrats to New Mexico? 1200 WOAI's Robert Wood reports from the Capitol that rumors are buzzing that at the end of the current special session, the 11 Senate Democrats who are currently in New Mexico will return at the end of the current special session, and then 51 House Democrats will leave the state, to prevent that Republican backed Congressional redistricting plan from passing. "We're in the process of trying to get together and make a determination as a group about what our next step...

North Korea 'could nuke Japan' The CIA believes North Korea has the technology to build mini nuclear warheads to fit missiles capable of hitting Japan. Spy satellites have identified equipment that could create the sophisticated weapons within a year, United States intelligence officials told the New York Times. "This would give them the range they never had before, and the chance to spread their threat far beyond South Korea," one official said. The miniaturised warheads would be light enough to put on to North Korea's growing arsenal of medium and long-range missiles. The extended range of the new weapons would...

Minor-league Cubs player strikes out at osprey in nest Posted: April 23, 20035:40 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A minor-league pitcher in the Chicago Cubs organization has created a major flap after aiming for and knocking down an osprey from its perch with a baseball. Pitcher Jae-kuk Ryu South Korean Jae-kuk Ryu of the Daytona Cubs could face animal cruelty charges for striking out at the bird Monday night at Florida's Jackie Robinson Ballpark. "The bird's eye was gushing blood," Chad Efron, a trainer with the Port St. Lucie Mets told the Daytona Beach News-Journal. "I started yelling at [Ryu]. I got...

Saddam 'could send human tide against Allies' The leader of British forces in the Gulf has warned the Iraqi regime could employ human shields, forcing civilians to march on the airport taken by Allied troops. His comments follow a statement from Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf that a non-conventional act would be carried out against coalition forces. Responding to the threat in an interview with BBC 2's Newsnight Air Marshal Brian Burridge suggested the regime might try to use civilians as human shields in an attempt to re-take the airport. He told the programme: "It's quite difficult to judge....

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UK 'could not cope with terrorist attack' - MPs By Gavin Cordon, Whitehall Editor, PA News 24 July 2002 Britain's emergency services lack the capabilities and resources to cope with a massive terrorist attack on the scale of 11 September, MPs warned today. The Commons Defence Committee strongly criticised the Government's response to the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon, complaining of "inadequate central co-ordination and direction". In a scathing report, the MPs highlighted a series of "real deficiencies" in the ability of the civil authorities to deal with a major terrorist incident. Fire and ambulance crews lacked...