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Higgs Boson halts as CERN closes for 2 yrs Self-immolation: 2 Tibetan monks die
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N Korea celebrates 3rd nuclear test Pyongyang, February 14 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not appear at the rally today. Workers' Party Secretary Kim Ki Nam told the crowd that Tuesday's nuclear test, the country's third, was a self-defensive measure against US hostility. The United Nations Security Council and Washington say the test violated UN resolutions. North Korea is believed to be trying to develop nuclear-armed missiles. In December, North Korea launched a satellite into space using a long-range rocket. The UN and Washington said the launch was a test of banned ballistic missile technology and imposed tightened sanctions against the North. North Korea conducted two previous nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009. South Korea sent a stern warning to North Korea on Thursday, saying it could strike the isolated state if it believed an attack was imminent as it deployed a new cruise missile to drive home its point. North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on Tuesday, in defiance of UN resolutions and drawing condemnation from the United States, Japan, Europe and the North's only major ally, China. Seoul warned that it would strike if attacked. South Korea has already relaxed rules allowing troops on the border to return fire directly without seeking permission from the army chiefs. "The cruise missile being unveiled today is a precision-guided weapon that can identify and strike the window of the office of North Korea's leadership," Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok told reporters. Japan, which has little capacity to strike at the North if threatened by an attack because of the constraints of it pacifist constitution, said it had the right to develop such capability in response to changes in the regional security situation - but had no plan to do so at present. "When an intention to attack Japan is evident, the threat is imminent, and there are no other options, Japan is allowed under the law to carry out strikes against enemy targets," Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera told Reuters in an interview. — Agencies China steps up radiation monitoring Beijing: In the wake of North Korea's third nuclear test, China has stepped up monitoring of radiation levels at its borders with close ally Pyongyang as the test site is situated about 100 km from the Chinese border. China's environmental watchdog said several radiation monitoring detachments have been dispatched to monitor and evaluate the environment in north-east China following the recent nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. — PTI
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Terror attacks kill 16 in Pak In a series of terror attacks targeting security forces, at least 16 persons, including six militants and three security personnel, were killed and over 20 injured in Pakistan's restive north-west today.
A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a security check post in Hangu district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, killing seven persons, including security personnel, officials said. The attacker targeted a check post manned by policemen and Frontier Corps personnel. The dead included two security personnel, a policeman and two passers-by, they said adding the toll could increase. The injured were taken to nearby hospitals. The blast created an eight-foot crater and the check post was destroyed. Meanwhile, militants attacked the Maryan police station in the Bannu area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province at 6.30 am, triggering a fierce gun battle that continued for about 90 minutes, killing six militants and injuring a policeman. The attack was successfully thwarted and six militants killed, district police chief Nisar Tanoli told reporters. Reports said several of the attackers blew themselves up, while others were shot dead. Tanoli said a policeman was injured and the police station was slightly damaged. He said the attackers appeared to be Uzbeks. The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for both the terror attacks. (With PTI inputs)
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Higgs Boson halts as CERN closes for 2 yrs London, February 14 The Europe's top physics lab decided to take the break from smashing invisible particles, with an aim to restart with a renewed vigour. The LHC has provided physicists with a huge quantity of data to analyse since the first physics run in 2009. "We have every reason to be very satisfied with the LHC's first three years," CERN's director general Rolf Heuer said in a statement. "The machine, the experiments, the computing facilities and all infrastructures behaved brilliantly, and we have a major scientific discovery in our pocket," he said. Although there will be no collisions for a period of almost two years, the whole CERN site will be a hive of activity, with large-scale work under way to modernise the infrastructure and prepare the LHC for operation at higher energy. "A whole series of renovation work will be carried out around the LHC during LS1," says Simon Baird, deputy head of the Engineering department. — PTI
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Self-immolation: 2 Tibetan monks die Beijing, February 14 US-based Radio Free Asia said the man, Lobsang Namgyal, who it described as a former monk from the Kirti monastery, self-immolated last week near a police station in Aba prefecture, a Tibetan area of Sichuan province in southern China. Thundup Dopchen, a Tibetan monk who had set himself on fire at a restaurant in Nepal, marking the 100th self-immolation bid, has died in a hospital.— Agencies
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