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China Cancels Korea Nuke Talks Ceremony Fri Jun 25, 1:15 AM ET BEIJING - China canceled the closing ceremony for six-nation talks on North Korea (news - web sites)'s nuclear program, a Chinese government spokesman said Friday. He gave no reason, but the announcement came a day after the North reportedly threatened to test a nuclear bomb. The ceremony Saturday, with envoys from the United States, the two Koreas, host China, Japan and Russia, was to have followed three days of talks on U.S. demands for the North to abandon nuclear weapons development. "The meeting will end, but there will...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Government scientists conducted an underground nuclear materials experiment Friday at the Nevada Test Site, the National Nuclear Security Administration said. The subcritical experiment, dubbed Piano, involved detonating high explosives to chart the behavior of plutonium in a non-nuclear explosion. It did not trigger a self-sustaining nuclear reaction, NNSA spokesman Kevin Rohrer said. Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California completed the test at 1:44 p.m. in a cavern 960 feet below ground, Rohrer said. No abnormalities and no surface damage were reported at the vast site, about 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas....