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U.S., U.K. plan trans-governmental national security group
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and the United States are to create a new joint forum to assess long-term threats to their national security, a British government source said Monday. The launch of the new national security strategy board is expected to be announced during U.S. President Barack Obama’s state visit to Britain, starting Tuesday. “The U.S.…
New Internet tech transmits data at 26 terabytes per second
In a dramatic breakthrough, scientists have learned how to use optical fiber to transmit data over a single laser at speeds that dwarf even today’s fastest Internet connections. Using techniques called “fast Fourier transform” and “orthogonal frequency division multiplexing,” scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany were able to stitch…
Pakistan retakes naval base after just six militants lay seige
KARACHI (Reuters) – Troops recaptured a Pakistani naval air force base on Monday after a 16-hour battle with as few as six Taliban gunmen who had launched their brazen attack to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden. The assault casts fresh doubt on the military’s ability to protect its…
Thai police arrest alleged top tiger trafficker
BANGKOK (AFP) – Thai police have arrested an alleged kingpin in what could be the country’s largest tiger trafficking ring, a wildlife protection group said on Sunday. Sudjai Chanthawong, a Thai national, was detained on Saturday in the northeastern town of Udon Thani by undercover officers of the nature crime…
Electronics giant Sony expects to post losses near $3.2 billion
TOKYO (AFP) – Japan’s Sony on Monday said it expected to post a $3.2 billion net loss for the fiscal year ended March, after delaying its corporate results to gauge damage from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The expected third-straight annual loss for Sony comes as it tries to…
Afghan Taliban deny Mullah Omar is dead
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — An Afghan Taliban spokesman said Monday it was “not possible at all” that their leader Mullah Omar was dead, after an Afghan intelligence source said he had been killed in Pakistan. “This is pure propaganda. This is not possible at all,” spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP by…
Spanish Socialists hammered in election after a week of protests
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s ability to meet deficit reduction targets was thrown into doubt on Monday after voters angry over austerity and the EU’S highest jobless rate gave the ruling Socialists a fierce drubbing in local elections. A week of protests by youth fed up with the stagnant economy and…
Pakistanis protest against US drone airstrikes
KARACHI — Thousands demonstrated in Karachi on Sunday to demand an immediate end to US missile strikes in Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas and urge the blocking of NATO supplies passing through the country. Activists from the Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) continued a two-day sit-in outside the city’s Arabian Sea port,…
Three dead in Chinese iPad factory explosion
BEIJING — The death toll from a blast at a Foxconn factory in China, reportedly in a building where Apple’s iPad 2 was being made, rose to three Sunday after a seriously injured worker died, state media said. Two workers were initially killed and 16 injured in the explosion on…
Obama stands firm in AIPAC speech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Sunday refused to back away from his new Middle East peacemaking proposals that have angered Israel, as he addressed the Jewish state’s staunchest American supporters amid a deep rift in U.S.-Israeli ties. But Obama, speaking to the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC, sought to…
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