| Pentagon Puts China Exchange on Hold
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 The Pentagon, facing political pressure, delayed a decision on a major new military exchange with China until the two countries can reach an agreement on rules for airborne encounters between their warplanes.
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| Kiwi firm drives nanotech revolution
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 Nanotechnology is the future, says Revolution Fibres co-founder and managing director Iain Hosie, and he is pushing to be at the leading edge. "Over the last couple of years as people have started working directly with the materials...
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| Second ex-Orland Park teacher charged with sex crime in a week
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 An ex-gym teacher in an Orland Park grade school district was arrested this week and charged with having sex with a former student, a charge that comes just days after another ex-teacher in the same district was accused of having sex with two of her former students.
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| Hostage Crisis Shows How Japan Fails to Protect Its Citizens -- And What It's Doing About It
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 TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was on a six-day tour of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, when the Islamic State posted a video online threatening to murder two Japanese hostages, Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto, if his government did not pay $200 million within 72 hours. Abe had no good options. Indeed, when it comes to protecting its citizens overseas, Japan never does. When Abe failed to bow to its demands, ISIS released a second video claiming that Yukawa, who was seized last August in Syria while reportedly preparing to establish a Japan-based private security ...
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