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The End of the World is closer than at any time since the Cold War, a group of scientists is set to declare this week. The keepers of a symbolic Doomsday Clock - a world-famous symbol designed by the US-based Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to chart how close we are to Armaggedon - have announced they are moving its hands forward. According to the University of Chicago-based organisation, worsening climate change and the increasing threat of nuclear war are threatening our survival. The clock's hands will be moved forward next Wednesday. The clock, which has appeared on the Bulletin of...

PLANS previously drafted by the Pentagon predict 52,000 US military casualties and one million civilian dead in the first 90 days of conflict if America attacked Pyongyang. A report this week by US-based security and military analyst Stratfor predicts North Korea could return fire on Seoul with "several hundred thousand high-explosive rounds per hour" -- with up to 25 per cent of shells filled with nerve gas. Other estimates say the US would need at least 500,000 ground troops to secure against a North invasion of the South. "When US military planners have nightmares, they have nightmares about war with...

PLANS previously drafted by the Pentagon predict 52,000 US military casualties and one million civilian dead in the first 90 days of conflict if America attacked Pyongyang. The US leadership is looking at international economic and diplomatic sanctions against North Korea as its primary response to Monday's nuclear test.

PARIS, March 9th, 2005 (Xinhuanet) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias said in Paris Wednesday that the United States attempts to assassinate him. File photo At a news conference held here, Chavez warned that "if the United States succeeds in assassinating me, Venezuela's oil workers will not sell even a drop of oil to it, and the people's movement triggered by the assassination will make the oil price exceed 100 US dollars a barrel." He reiterated that his country had enough evidence to prove the US attempt. Chavez arrived in Paris on Wednesday for a 24-hour working visit, during which...