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China denies U.S. aircraft carrier port visit CNN   22 hours ago   Sign in to like   Reblog on Tumblr   Tweet A photo illustration of the U.S. Navy's Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79). The ship's keel laying ceremony was celebrated Saturday, August 22, 2015, in Newport News, Virginia. The ship is expected to replace the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), scheduled for inactivation in 2025, in the Navy fleet. The newest Kennedy will be the second carrier of that name. The first John F. Kennedy (CVA-67) was the last conventionally powered carrier. It was decommissioned in 2007. ...

China Successfully Tests Hypersonic Weapon System Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics   23 hours ago   Comments   Sign in to like   Reblog on Tumblr   Share   Tweet   Email From Popular Mechanics China has conducted a test of its new hypersonic weapon. The test is the seventh successful test of the so-called DF-ZF, the  Washington Free Beacon  reports . The test  was carried out  from the Wuzhai missile test center in central China. Past DF-ZF weapons-previously called WU-14 by the Pentagon-were aimed at inner Mongolia. The test was the second major missile test in two weeks. On April 12th, a DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missile  was launched  into the South China Sea. The DF-ZF is what is known as a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle (HGF). The DF-ZF is thought to be launched by a DF-21 intermediate range ballistic missile. Unlike a typical ballistic missile warhead however, a hypersonic glide vehicle sto...

Russia's nuclear nightmare flows down radioactive river Washington Post   23 hours ago   Sign in to like   Reblog on Tumblr   Tweet MUSLYUMOVO, Russia — At first glance, Gilani Dambaev looks like a healthy 60-year-old man and the river flowing past his rural family home appears pristine. But Dambaev is riddled with diseases that his doctors link to a lifetime’s exposure to excessive radiation, and the Geiger counter beeps loudly as a reporter strolls down to the muddy riverbank. Some 50 kilometers (30 miles) upstream from Dambaev’s crumbling village lies Mayak, a nuclear complex that has been responsible for at least two of the country’s biggest radioactive accidents. Worse, environmentalists say, is the facility’s decades-old record of using the Arctic-bound waters of the Techa River to dump waste from reprocessing spent ...

North Korean children spurn candy bags from Kim Jong Un UPI   19 hours ago   Sign in to like   Reblog on Tumblr   Tweet SEOUL, April 29 (UPI) -- Gift bags of candy that Kim Jong Un issued for North Korean children on Kim Il Sung's birthday anniversary are being spurned for better quality Chinese sweets, sources say. The North Korean candy is of such poor quality an excess supply of the confections are being sold in the country's gray markets at marked-down prices, Radio Free Asia reported. A source in North Hamgyong Province said the gift bag for children is being "trafficked" in the unofficial marketplace, and the authorities are not happy with the situation. "Trading in 'Day of the Sun' gifts from the state is illegal, and law enforcement had to take action," the source said, according to South Korean news service ...

China Claiming Okinawa Is Like Japan Claiming Hawaii The National Interest   Fri, Apr 29 1:00 AM PDT   Sign in to like   Reblog on Tumblr   Tweet Hawaii belongs to Japan, the Japanese press suddenly proclaims. Tokyo publishes ancient maps and documents that purport to show that the Hawaiian islands were historically part of the Japanese homeland until they were illegally annexed by the Americans. To hammer the point home, a Japanese warship sails into Hawaiian waters. Does this sound totally insane? It's no more crazy than Chinese claims that the Ryukyu Islands—which include the island of Okinawa—belong to China rather than Japan. In 2013, the world let out a collective "Say what???" when Chinese officials, scholars and journalists suggested that the Ryukyus belong to China. The claims, based on the fact that the Ryukyu islanders paid ...

U.S. protests China's use of military jet CNN   7 hours ago   Sign in to like   Reblog on Tumblr   Tweet Washington (CNN)China's apparent landing of a military jet on a man-made island in the disputed waters of the South China Sea drew protest from the United States military Monday. "We're aware that a Chinese military aircraft landed at Fiery Cross Reef on Sunday in what China described as a humanitarian operation to evacuate three ill workers," Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said in a written statement. "It is unclear why the Chinese used a military aircraft, as opposed to a civilian one." The United States, along with the Philippines have voiced continued concern over China's establishment of man-made islands in portions of the South China Sea, one of the world's busiest sea lanes for commerce, ... Read more

U.S. protests China's use of military jet CNN   7 hours ago   Sign in to like   Reblog on Tumblr   Tweet Washington (CNN)China's apparent landing of a military jet on a man-made island in the disputed waters of the South China Sea drew protest from the United States military Monday. "We're aware that a Chinese military aircraft landed at Fiery Cross Reef on Sunday in what China described as a humanitarian operation to evacuate three ill workers," Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said in a written statement. "It is unclear why the Chinese used a military aircraft, as opposed to a civilian one." The United States, along with the Philippines have voiced continued concern over China's establishment of man-made islands in portions of the South China Sea, one of the world's busiest sea lanes for commerce, ...

Natural disasters since 1900 'have cost $7 trillion' April 18, 2016 View photos Police assist people on the streets flooded by the overflowing of the Mapocho river during heavy rains in Santiago on April 17, 2016 (AFP Photo/Pascal Diaz) More Vienna (AFP) - Natural disasters have caused more than $7 trillion (6.2 trillion euros) in economic damage worldwide since 1900, with floods and storms accounting for nearly 60 percent of the total, researchers said Monday. The death toll from such natural calamities -- which also include earthquakes, volcanoes, droughts, heatwaves and wildfires -- topped eight million from 1900 to 2015, according to findings presented at a meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna. More than a third -- 38.5 percent -- of the economic damage, and just over half the loss of life was the result of flooding, according to James Daniell, an Australian risk engineer at the Karlsruhe Ins...