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People Maria Miller is still an MP and the poor people of Basingstoke are lumbered with her Selfies Like most people, Sunday People columnist Carol McGiffin had not forgotten the expenses scandals, but had kind of moved on - now it has all come flooding back WPac discussion WXTLIST WMO=ABPW10 ABPW10 PGTW 101300 2014100 1325 MSGID/GENADMIN/JOINT TYPHOON WRNCEN PEARL HARBOR HI// SUBJ/SIGNIFICANT TROPICAL WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THE WESTERN AND /SOUTH PACIFIC OCEANS REISSUED/101300Z-110600ZAPR2014// REF/A/MSG/JOINT TYPHOON WRNCEN PEARL HARBOR HI/100752ZAPR2014// REF/B/MSG/JOINT TYPHOON WRNCEN PEARL HARBOR HI/100751ZAPR2014// NARR/REFS A AND B ARE TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNINGS.// RMKS/ 1. WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC AREA (180 TO MALAY PENINSULA): A. TROPICAL CYCLONE SUMMARY: (1) AT 100600Z, TROPICAL DISTURBANCE 05W (PEIPAH) WAS LOCATED NEAR 8.4N 131.8E, APPROXIMATELY 168 NM WEST-NORTHWEST OF KOROR, PALAU, AND HAD TRACKED EAST-NORTHEASTWARD AT 03 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED SURFACE WINDS WERE ESTIMATED AT 20 KNOTS GUSTING TO 30 KNOTS. SEE REF A (WTPN31 PGTW 100900) FOR THE FINAL WARNING ON THIS SYSTEM. (2) NO OTHER TROPICAL CYCLONES. B.

Mail Online Anthony Owen, 68, was found unconscious 20 yards from his home, next to his white Honda civic, which was still running Witnesses reported seeing three youths on BMX bikes cycling away from Mr Owen's home on millionaires' row in Hale Village, near Liverpool By James Tozer Published: 19:45 GMT, 20 March 2012 | Updated: 18:02 GMT, 21 March 2012 Qatar expresses reservations over Mecca summit outcome Qatar said on Sunday it had reservations about hardline statements on Iran made at emergency summits in Mecca organised by Saudi Arabia. "The statements condemned Iran but did not refer to a moderate policy to speak with Tehran," Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar's foreign minister, told Al Jazeera. The summits "adopted Washington's policy towards Iran and not one that takes the neighbourhood into consideration", he added. He questioned the unity called for by neighbouring countries amid an ongoing blockade against the Gulf country. The Gulf summit statement talked about a unified Gulf, but where is it amid the continuation of Qatar's blockade?

US acted in 'bad faith' in Vietnam talks: N Korea's Kim North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says the US acted in “bad faith” in Vietnam when President Donald Trump and his team held talks with him in Hanoi. Kim told Russian President Vladimir Putin during their first-ever meeting on Thursday in Vladivostok that the situation on the Korean peninsula has reached a "critical point”, warning that peace and security on the Korean peninsula will entirely depend on the future US attitude, state media reported "The situation on the Korean peninsula and the region is now at a standstill and has reached a critical point," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) quoted Kim as saying. The situation "may return to its original state as the US took a unilateral attitude in bad faith at the recent second DPRK-US summit talks,” he warned. "Peace and security on the Korean peninsula will entirely depend on the US future attitude, and the DPRK will gird itself for every possible situation," KCNA quoted Kim as saying. Read more:

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irna Public Relations Department at the Islamic Republic Army said on Friday that more than 100 of the Navy fleet, including different kinds of destroyers, missile launching navies, logistic navies, light and heavy submarines, hovercrafts, fixed wing aircrafts, and helicopters have participated in the parade. The parade covers an area of more than two million square kilometers east of Hormuz Strait, Oman Sea and north of the Indian Ocean (up to 10 degrees) and the participants in the parade exercise defense and air defense tactics to safeguard the territorial waters, while hoisting banner of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Commander of the Islamic Republic Army's Navy Rear Admiral Khanzadi had told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Thursday that for the first time the forces under his command will launch missiles to the air from submarines.

China military develops robotic submarines to launch a new era of sea power China is developing large, smart and relatively low-cost unmanned submarines that can roam the world’s oceans to perform a wide range of missions, from reconnaissance to mine placement to even suicide attacks against enemy vessels, according to scientists involved in these artificial intelligence (AI) projects. The autonomous robotic submarines are expected to be deployed in the early 2020s. While not intended to entirely replace human-operated submarines, they will challenge the advantageous position established by Western naval powers after the second world war. The robotic subs are aimed particularly at the United States forces in strategic waters like the South China Sea and western Pacific Ocean, the researchers said. The project is part of the government's ambitious plan to boost the country's naval power with AI technology.

Dispute after state authorised expropriation of farm Government has begun unilaterally expropriating farms against which land claims have been lodged and where price negotiations with owners have stalled. Two game farms in Limpopo appear to be the first properties that will be expropriated without following a court process. The owners, who dispute the validity of the land claims lodged against their property, want R200m for the land, while government has offered them R20m. A letter written to Akkerland Boerdery, owners of a luxury hunting farm in Makhado in Limpopo, read in part: “Notice is hereby given that a terrain inspection will be held on the farms on April 5 2018 at 10am in order to conduct an audit of the assets and a handover of the farm’s keys to the state.”

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