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

PARIS — The young Islamic militant accused of killing seven people in a spree of point-blank assassinations has cut off communications with French anti-terrorism police who have encircled his apartment for nearly 30 hours and now “wants to die with his weapons in his hands,’ Interior Minister Claude Gueant said Thursday. Read full article > >

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Mohammed Merah, shooting suspect, ‘wants to die’ fighting, official says

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

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

The United States is moving on a costly modernization of its nuclear Triad: the submarines, strategic bombers and land-based missiles that can deliver nuclear weapons to targets across the world. But the pace is apparently not fast enough for Sen. Jon Kyl (Ariz.), the leading Republican spokesman on the subject. Read full article > >

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Nuclear weapons modernization: not fast enough for Kyl

Over alleged weapons program.

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U.N. Nuclear Team Lands in Iran

Every country involved in the dispute over Iran’s possibly acquiring nuclear weapons is calculating how the American presidential election plays to their agendas.

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News Analysis: Confronting Iran in a Year of Elections

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had an undeclared stockpile of chemical weapons, the body that oversees a global ban on such weapons says.

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Libya had chemical weapon cache

Police investigating the deaths of three women and the man who shot them at a house in County Durham are expected to focus on the gunman’s six weapons licences.

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Focus on weapons at deaths house

Some fear that American weapons will strengthen Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s apparent efforts to consolidate his power and establish Shiite dominance.

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U.S. Military Sales to Iraq Raise Concerns

Citizens are reluctant to give up the guns and other weapons they seized as they wrested control of the country from Qaddafi loyalists.

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Misurata Journal: Libya’s Weapons Are an Uprising’s Deadly Legacy

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Iran May Have Given Libya Artillery Shells

Perched on a peak in the heart of Libya’s Nafusa Mountains, the ancient town of Kabaw was bathed in floodlight, rocked by music blaring from gigantic speakers and overwhelmed by thousands of people dancing in its steep streets. As the party ebbed and flowed up the steps of a castle, around a mosque with a steeple and down the sides of the mountain, the revelers waved the red, black and green flag of Libya’s revolutionaries. But they also flaunted another flag, with green, blue and yellow stripes and a curious red symbol. Read full article > >

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An exuberant awakening for Libya’s Berbers

US Republican presidential hopefuls debate foreign policy, agreeing on blocking Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions, but differing on methods.

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Republicans debate foreign policy

SPARTANBURG, S.C. — With the International Atomic Energy Agency warning in a new report that Iran may be proceeding with developing a nuclear weapon, the leading Republican candidates for president accused President Obama of not being forceful enough to prevent that from happening. At the first GOP debate that focused on foreign policy, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former House speaker Newt Gingrich indicated that if either of them were commander in chief, they would be willing to use military force against Iran, if tightened economic sanctions and support for the Iranian opposition did not work to deter nuclear weapons development in the country. Read full article > >

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GOP candidates hammer Obama on his Iran policy during South Carolina debate