Sweden’s Defence Minister Sten Tolgfors resigns after facing criticism for a secret plan to help Saudi Arabia build weapons.

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With President Obama in Korea this week, we will hear a lot about the dangers of North Korea’s nuclear aspirations. We’re unlikely to be hear about a young man named Shin Dong-hyuk, who was bred, like a farm animal, inside a North Korean prison camp after guards ordered his prisoner-parents to mate. But Shin arguably has as much to teach about Korea’s past and future as about the cycle of negotiation, bluster and broken promises over the nuclear issue . Read full article > >

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North Korea’s dehumanizing treatment of its citizens is hiding in plain sight

With weapons for the crackdown.

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Officials: Iran Helping Syria

Fresh-water shortages and more droughts and floods will increase the likelihood that water will be used as a weapon between states or to further terrorist aims in key strategic areas, including the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa, a U.S. intelligence assessment released Thursday says. Read full article > >

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Report: Water shortages increasingly will offer new weapons for states, terror groups

The findings add to evidence suggesting that aspirin may be a powerful if overlooked weapon against cancer, but some physicians and health officials are concerned about side effects.

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Studies Link Aspirin Daily Use to Reduced Cancer Risk

The Pentagon is accelerating efforts to develop a new generation of cyberweapons capable of disrupting enemy military networks even when those networks are not connected to the Internet, according to current and former U.S. officials. Read full article > >

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U.S. accelerating cyberweapon research

It’s unclear whether Robert Griffin III ’s newest weapons on the flank — Pierre Garcon, Josh Morgan and maybe Eddie Royal — can become the Fun Bunch II. In point of fact, we’re at least two years from really assessing whether RGIII was worth a four-for-one swap with St. Louis. Read full article > >

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Redskins’ offseason redemption tour is in full swing again, but this year feels different

DOES THE Second Amendment protect an individual right to carry a gun outside the home? Last week, a federal judge in Maryland concluded that it does and in the process struck down a Maryland licensing provision for carrying concealed weapons in public. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: The right of protection

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu tells a pro-Israel US lobby time is running out to stop Iran developing a nuclear weapon.

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Israel warns time short on Iran

President Obama says the US “will not hesitate” to use force to stop Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, but that diplomacy can still succeed.

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Obama warns of force against Iran

A cloud of uncertainty has drifted in over the hallowed national laboratory that has been a crucible of the United States’ nuclear weapons research and development.

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Los Alamos Braces for Deep Cuts at Lab

Iran has significantly ramped up production of a purer form of enriched uranium, U.N. nuclear officials said in a new report Friday, a finding certain to exacerbate worries about the country’s march toward nuclear-weapons capability. Read full article > >

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U.N. sees spike in Iran’s uranium production

A decision this week allowing towns to ban oil and gas drilling gives opponents of hydraulic fracturing a weapon against the process even if the state allows it.

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Judge’s Ruling Complicates Hydrofracking Issue in New York

Undercover agents supplied a Moroccan man with a useless weapon and arrested him before he could carry out his planned suicide bombing.

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F.B.I Arrests Man in a Suspected Terrorist Plot at the U.S. Capitol

Over alleged weapons program.

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U.N. Nuclear Team Lands in Iran