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• N Korea moves missile after warning of nuclear strike
• US supports Karzais visit to Doha
• Iran, 6 powers meet for nuclear talks
• UN chief urges nations to step up poverty fight
• NATO: F-16 crashes in Afghanistan, killing pilot
• Chelsea, Benfica, Fenerbahce win in Europa League
• Football: Barcelona lodge referee protest with UEFA
• Isner to face Djokovic in Davis Cup in Boise
• Gasquet out of French Davis Cup team
• Harrington's 4-under 68 leads early at Texas Open
• Police: Italian priest stole $5.1M from hospital
• Oil prices lower on weak US labor data
• Facebook unveils Android software suite
• Bowlers watch out, law has changed
• No Prior for England in Champions Trophy squad

N Korea moves missile after warning of nuclear strike Posted: SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea has moved a medium-range missile to its east coast, South Korea said Thursday as the United States strengthened its Pacific missile defences amid intensifying threats from Pyongyang.Seouls defence minister Kim Kwan-Jin said the missile could reach a considerable distance but not the US mainland.It could be aimed at test-firing or military drills, he told lawmakers.North Korea, incensed at fresh UN sanctions and South Korea-US military drills, has issued a series of apocalyptic threats of nuclear war in recent weeks.Early Thursday its military said it had received final approval for military action against the United States, possibly involving nuclear weapons.The moment of explosion is approaching fast, the general staff said, responding to what it called the provocative US use of nuclear-capable B-52 and B-2 stealth bombers in war games with South Korea.The US aggression would be smashed by... cutting-edge smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear strike means, it said in a statement.United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told North Korea on Thursday to rein in its threats, warning that any miscalculation could lead to an extremely grave outcome.He told a news conference in Madrid that daily security and humanitarian reports from Pyongyang were really alarming and troubling.Nuclear threat is not a game, it is very serious, Ban told reporters.I think they have gone too far in their rhetoric and I am concerned that if by any misjudgement, by any miscalculations... this will have very serious implications, he said.US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Pyongyangs increasingly bellicose threats combined with its military capabilities represented a real and clear danger to the United States and its allies South Korea and Japan.The Pentagon said it would send ground-based THAAD missile-interceptor batteries to protect bases on Guam, a US territory some 3,380 kilometres (2,100 miles) southeast of North Korea and home to 6,000 American military personnel.They have nuclear capacity now, they have missile delivery capacity now, Hagel said Wednesday. We take those threats seriously.Intelligence analysis quoted by South Koreas Yonhap news agency said the east coast missile was believed to be a Musudan which has an estimated range of around 3,000 kilometres or more.Yonhap quoted sources as saying Pyongyang is likely to fire it around the middle of April, when North Koreans celebrate the birthday of their late founder Kim Il-Sung.A provocative missile test-fired into the sea over Japan is one scenario that analysts have said the North could choose to exit the crisis with a face-saving show of force.

US supports Karzais visit to Doha Posted: WASHINGTON (Agencies) - The United States said it supports Afghan President Hamid Karzais vist to Doha aimed at possible talks with Taliban insurgents on violence in Afghanistan.We were supportive of President Karzais visit to Doha to strengthen the cooperation between the Afghan government and the government of Qatar to prepare for the prospect of Afghan-Afghan talks there on the Afghan side under the auspices of the High Peace Council, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a press briefing.That is a separate issue than whether the Taliban chooses to avail itself of this opportunity. It knows very clearly what it has to do, and the ball is in its court, if it wants to see this office opened, she added.Karzai held talks with Qatari leaders on Sunday on a visit the Kabul government has said would seek to explore the possibility of talks with Taliban insurgents on ending Afghanistans war. This follows years of stalled discussions among the United States, Pakistan and the Taliban about a possible Afghan settlement.

Iran, 6 powers meet for nuclear talks Posted: ALMATY (AP) - Iran and world powers trying to curb Irans nuclear progress are coming to the negotiating table this week with the window shrinking on diplomacy. Tehran is moving closer to the ability to make atomic arms, and that risks the threat of Mideast conflict.Israel says the Islamic Republic is only a few months away from the threshold of having material to turn into a bomb and has vowed to use all means to prevent it from reaching that point. The United States has not said what its red line is, but has said it will not tolerate an Iran armed with nuclear weapons.Any strike on Iran would provoke fierce retaliation directly from Iran and through its Middle East proxies in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, raising the specter of a larger Middle East conflict. The stakes are clearly high for negotiators from six nations meeting their Iranian counterparts in the Kazakh commercial capital, Almaty, on Friday and Saturday.While not mentioning the use of force, the United States and Israel both warned Iran ahead of that meeting that they would not allow it to acquire nuclear arms.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran is a model of a country that is talking but at the same time developing nuclear weapons.I think that model certainly cant be allowed to happen in the case of Iran, said Netanyahu Wednesday after meeting with Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Eide.In Washington, a senior U.S. administration official urged Tehran to meet demands from the six powers that it scale back on uranium enrichment a potential path to nuclear weapons citing President Barack Obama as saying that all options remain on the table to prevent Iran from having such arms. The official demanded anonymity as a condition for speaking on the issue.The six the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany hope the talks will result in at least an incremental advance in a decade of efforts to reduce Irans bomb-making capacities by curbing its uranium enrichment program.The two sides parted in February after meeting in Almaty with agreement to at least keep talking over a new proposal submitted by the six. But they remain vastly divided on what they want from each other.Iran wants an end to punishing sanctions crippling its economy. They were imposed to force it to end uranium enrichment, a process that can generate both nuclear energy and the core of nuclear weapons. Iran denies any interest in atomic arms, insists its enrichment program serves only peaceful needs, says it has a right to enrich under the NuclearNonproliferation Treaty and describes U.N. Security Council demands that it stop enrichment as illegal.We are talking about peaceful nuclear energy, Saeed Jalili, Irans chief nuclear negotiator, said before the latest talks. He said Iran had a right to such a program and accused a handful of countries of working to deny this right to others.The six have moved from demanding a total end to enrichment. As a first step, they now are asking Tehran only to stop production and stockpiling of uranium enriched to 20 percent, which is just a technical step away from weapons-grade uranium. A halt to production and stockpiling would keep Irans supply below the amount needed for further processing into a weapon.

UN chief urges nations to step up poverty fight Posted: MADRID (AFP) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged nations around the world to do more to fulfil the goal of reducing extreme poverty and improve living standards by 2015.UN member states in 2000 agreed to eight targets known as Millennium Development Goals aimed to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women by 2015.Halving the number of people who live on less than one dollar a day by 2015 is one of the goals that was set in 2000.I am making an appeal that we speed up the actions which we must take, the UN chief said at the end of a meeting of United Nations agencies in Madrid.We must carry out the promises we have made, which we made to families around the world, he added.While certain countries achieved the goals set down, many -- particularly in the most needy areas such as sub-Saharan Africa -- have made little progress.Around 870 million people around the world suffer from hunger, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, former Brazilian minister for food security Graziano da Silva, told the gathering.Despite the efforts which we have made, the numbers are not very encouraging, he said.Aid programmes that target women hold the key to eradicating hunger and poverty, the deputy director of the UN World Food Programme, Amir Abdulla, said.Women are the secret weapon against hunger, they are the ultimate force multiplier to fight against malnutrition. When women have food children eat. When they are helped to grow food, communities eat, he said.

NATO: F-16 crashes in Afghanistan, killing pilot Posted: KABUL (AP) - NATO says an American F-16 fighter jet has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing the U.S. pilot.NATO said in a statement Thursday that the cause of Wednesdays crash is still being investigated, but initial reporting indicates that there was no insurgent activity in the area when the plane went down.The U.S.-led military coalition did not disclose where the plane crashed.

Chelsea, Benfica, Fenerbahce win in Europa League Posted: LONDON (AP) - Chelsea, Benfica and Fenerbahce closed in on the Europa League semifinals with victories on Thursday while Basel claimed crucial away goals with a draw at Tottenham.Fernando Torres scored twice in a game for the first time in four months as European champion Chelsea claimed a 3-1 win over Rubin Kazan at home in the first leg of their quarterfinal.Benfica came from behind to beat Newcastle 3-1 at home, while Fenerbahce scored two late goals to claim a 2-0 victory over 10-man Lazio to take into next Thursdays second leg.Tottenham fought back from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Basel but midfielder Gareth Bale was carried off in stoppage time with a serious looking injury to his right ankle.A long-term injury would be a serious setback to Tottenhams hopes of progressing in Europe and also the clubs main objective: staying in the top four in the Premier League. Thats also the priority at Chelsea, which is currently fourth in its bid to secure a return to the more illustrious Champions League next season.Having Torres scoring will help the mission and the Spain striker found the target for the first time since the last-16 victory over Steaua Bucharest almost a month ago.With Demba Ba cup-tied for Europe, Benitez has little choice but to deploy Torres, who has now reached 18 goals this season despite the perception that he is misfiring.Torres bundled in Chelseas opener in the 16th minute after bringing down David Luizs 30-yard cross-field pass and poking the ball home while under pressure on the ground.There was a cleaner finish for Chelseas second in the 32nd.Victor Moses saw a powerful header initially blocked by goalkeeper Sergey Ryzhikov, Torres had another go at scoring but he was also denied. The ball eventually found its way back to Moses, who powered home.Chelsea was cruising until captain John Terry handled in the penalty area and Bebras Natcho dispatched the spotkick into the net to give Kazan a valuable away goal.Chelsea midfielder Juan Mata was denied at the start of the second half by Ryzhikovs one-handed save, but Torres found the net again in the 70th.Torres cut in from the left but, rather than shooting, knocked the ball back to Frank Lampard, who released Mata on the left flank. Having worked his way into the penalty area, Torres was primed to meet Matas cross and head past Ryzhikov.The Europa League is a distraction from Newcastles attempts to avoid relegation from the Premier League, with the team currently three points above the drop zone.The Magpies got off to a perfect start when Papiss Cisse scored after 12 minutes.But Benfica, which is unbeaten in the Portuguese league this season, leveled on the half-hour through Rodrigo, who blasted the loose ball into the net after Oscar Cardozos fierce strike was parried by goalkeeper Tim Krul.Cisse was denied by the woodwork early in the second half, but Newcastle defender Davide Santon messed up an attempted back pass and Lima seized the ball, rounded Krul and netted from a tight angle in the 65th.Cardozo extended Benficas lead six minutes later from the penalty spot after a handball by Steven Taylor.Tottenham could be following Newcastle out of the Europa League at Basel next week.The Swiss champions went in front on the half-hour after Fabian Schar withstood two challenges and picked out Marco Streller, whose shot came off the post. Valentin Stocker then scored from the rebound.Fabian Frei extended Basels lead five minutes later after being left unmarked to head home after seizing on Jan Vertonghens half-clearance from a corner.Emmanuel Adebayor reduced the deficit in the 40th and, after Scott Parker missing what missed to be an open goal before the break, the equalizer came in the 58th. Gylfi Sigurdsson unleashed a shot high into the net after cutting in from the left.Bale was injured when he went over on his right ankle in a challenge for the ball late on and stayed down, clearly in pain, before being carried from the pitch.In Turkey, Fenerbahces breakthrough only came after Lazio had been reduced to 10 men. Ogenyi Onazi was shown a second yellow for scything down Cristian Baroni three minutes into the second half.However, the goal didnt come until the 79th when Pierre Webo netted from the spot after Stefan Radu handled.Dirk Kuyt added another in stoppage time, following up after Caner Erkins free kick was parried by Federico Marchetti.

Football: Barcelona lodge referee protest with UEFA Posted: MADRID (AFP) - Barcelona said Thursday they have lodged a written complaint with UEFA over the refereeing of German official Wolfgang Stark, who took charge of Tuesdays Champions League draw with Paris Saint Germain.Alluding to mistakes in the officiating of the quarter-final first leg, which ended 2-2, spokesman Toni Freixa said Barca just wish to express our surprise that referees did not apply the rules in Paris.Barcelona insist Stark erred in refusing to let Javier Mascherano and Jordi Alba back on to the field as PSG prepared to take a corner.The visiting players were off the field receiving treatment after colliding with one another.The Catalan club say the rules of the game stipulate that the referee should have stopped play in such circumstances.It is worth calling to attention that a referee at this level does not appear to know such an evident rule, Barca said in their statement.After the match, assistant coach Jordi Roura criticised Starks showing and alluded to the Mascherano-Alba incident as an example. He also insisted that PSGs first goal by Swede -- and former Barca star -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic was offside by several metres.PSG coach Carlo Ancelotti also criticised Stark for giving the late penalty which Xavi Hernandez converted for Barcelonas second goal.

Isner to face Djokovic in Davis Cup in Boise Posted: BOISE (AP) - John Isner will play top-ranked Novak Djokovic in the first match on Friday of the Davis Cup quarterfinal between the United States and Serbia.Sam Querrey, the top-ranked American at No. 20, will face Viktor Troicki in the second match, based on the draw announced Thursday in Boise, Idaho.The top-ranked doubles team of Bob and Mike Bryan will take on Nenad Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac on Saturday.In reverse singles on Sunday, Querrey and Djokovic will play the first match followed by Isner and Troicki.

Gasquet out of French Davis Cup team Posted: BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - Richard Gasquet on Thursday withdrew from the French Davis Cup team to take on Argentina in a quarter-final tie in Buenos Aires this weekend.The French No.2, who has been sufferring with a blister on his foot, will be replaced in the singles by Gilles Simon. French No.1 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga plays in the two other singles rubbers.

Harrington's 4-under 68 leads early at Texas Open Posted: SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Padraig Harrington opened with a 4-under par 68 to earn a share of the early lead with Billy Horschel at the Texas Open on Thursday.The three-time major winner from Ireland overcame the chilly early morning temperatures and steady wind to go as low as 5 under before finishing with a bogey on No. 18. He began his day with four layers of clothing in an attempt to stay warm as the Texas winds whipped in from the north.Last week back in Ireland, it was snowing, and I didnt feel as cold, said the former British Open and PGA Championship winner.Rory McIlroy, who entered the tournament last week as a final opportunity to prepare for next weeks Masters, opened with an even-par 72. He was tied for 36th as the morning rounds finished up and the afternoon wave began.The former world No. 1 was 2 under early in his round, which began on No. 10 on the difficult 7,435-yard layout.However, McIlroy found the water on the par-5 18th when his approach came up short beginning a stretch of three straight bogeys. He was 1 under entering his final hole of the round, No. 9, and missed a 7-foot par putt to fall back to even.The up-and-down round was hardly what McIlroy, who has just one top 10 finish this year, envisioned when he added the tournament to his schedule.More mental than anything else, McIlroy said. Its just about limiting those mistakes. Its definitely more mental mistakes than physical.While McIlroy struggled, Horschel continued to show the form that led to a second-place finish at last weeks Houston Open. Horschel jumped from 60th to 24th on the money list following last weeks performance, and he tied Harrington on Thursday with a final-hole birdie on No. 9.Horschel had six birdies, including a stretch of four in five holes midway through the round, and he did so despite hitting only 7 of 14 fairways. He and Harrington had just 25 putts each, while McIlroy needed 31.All in all, its a good day, Horschel said. I could hit the ball a little bit better, but I did a good job of managing it and making a couple putts.Jason Gore and Brian Davis finished a shot off the early leaders, posting 69s before stronger winds and warmer temperatures were expected to take hold in the afternoon.

Police: Italian priest stole $5.1M from hospital Posted: ROME (AP) - Italian police on Thursday arrested a priest accused of pocketing 4 million euros ($5.1 million) from a Catholic hospital he ran and helping run up 600 million euros ($769 million) in debts that forced it into bankruptcy.Italys financial police placed the Rev. Franco Decaminada, who until 2011 was the CEO of the IDI dermatological hospital in Rome, under house arrest. They also detained two other people while seizing a Tuscan villa that police say Decaminada built with stolen money.The plight of 1,500 IDI workers who havent received paychecks for months had prompted Benedict XVI in one of his last acts as pope to name a delegate in February to take over the religious order that owns the hospital to try to bring it back to financial health.But in the end the Vatican refused to provide any financial assistance and last week a Rome court certified the hospital as insolvent.IDI workers have occupied the hospitals management area and are buying food to help needy co-workers while continuing to work without pay in hopes of saving their jobs.After years of suffering and eight months without salary, we at least have the satisfaction of seeing that justice is starting to work, Bartolomeo Di Gregorio, 56, a biomedical lab technician, told The Associated Press on Thursday.He welcomed the arrival of Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi as the papal delegate to head the religious order the Congregation for the Children of the Immaculate Conception which runs the hospital, but said in the end it didnt help because we went into bankruptcy anyway.The problems at the IDI are the latest in a series of financial scandals at Catholic-run health facilities in Italy that, while not directly involving the Vatican, have links to its No. 2, the secretary of state Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.According to leaked Vatican correspondence, Bertone looked into investing money from the Vatican bank into a failing Milan hospital, the San Raffaele, in 2011 after it accumulated millions in debt because of mismanagement. In the end, the hospital went to outside investors.But Bertones apparent interest in building up a Vatican health care network in Italy has been cited as evidence of his own administrative failings in running the Holy See by focusing too much on small Italian problems and not on global church issues.On Thursday, Decaminadas order sought to distance itself from his crimes, saying it was a victim in the case and it was cooperating with investigators. It stressed that no member of the congregation ever saw or visited the home in Tuscany built by Father Decaminada and its construction was never authorized.

Oil prices lower on weak US labor data Posted: NEW YORK (AFP) - Oil prices Thursday continued their downward slide in the wake of unexpectedly high US jobless claims and concerns about a supply glut.US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for May delivery dropped $1.19 to $93.26 a barrel. European benchmark Brent futures for May delivery dipped 77 cents to $106.34 a barrel.The decline came after Department of Labor data showed initial claims for unemployment benefits totaled 385,000 in the week ending March 30, up 28,000 from the prior week. Analysts had expected the claims reading, an indicator of the pace of layoffs, to fall.On Wednesday oil prices tumbled -- WTI sank 2.8 percent in the biggest day-to-day drop since November -- after an official US oil inventory report showed surprisingly lofty supplies and data on private-sector hiring and the service sector came in weaker than expected.Tariq Zahir, managing member at Tyche Capital Advisors, said the poor labor reports have dimmed expectations for Friday's important monthly report on nonfarm payrolls and unemployment.A lot of people are positioning themselves for tomorrow's jobs report, Zahir said.Kyle Cooper, managing partner at IAF Energy Advisors in Houston, Texas, said the jobless claims figures were clearly disappointing. The oil market has also been keeping an eye on an oil spill on an ExxonMobil 95,000-barrel-a-day pipeline in Arkansas. The pipeline closure has raised concerns that already-high oil supplies will continue to mount.One reason for the price decline has to do with the Exxon pipeline that created a bottleneck and created the opportunity for prices to crash at the beginning of the week, said Jason Schenker of Prestige Economics, adding that Wednesday's oil inventory report had placed further downward pressure on the commodity.

Facebook unveils Android software suite Posted: MENLO PARK (AFP) - Facebook on Thursday unveiled a new mobile software suite which makes the social network the home of Android smartphones.Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the new software would make Facebook the home screen of Android phones, and allow the devices to be designed around people and not apps.Were not building a phone and were not building an operating system, but we are building something thats a lot deeper than an app, Zuckerberg told a gathering at the companys headquarters in Silicon Valley.Facebook called the new software a new way to turn your Android phone into a great, living, social phone.Home is a completely new experience that lets you see the world through people, not apps, Facebook said.The software, which allows users to see Facebook first when they turn on their phones, will be available for download starting April 12, Zuckerberg said. Another version for tablets is in the works.Home is also being made available through Taiwan-based electronics firm HTC, which will launch its Facebook home-screen smartphone called HTC First, to be available through US carrier AT&T.Zuckerberg demonstrated how a user would start with Facebook on the home screen and be able to navigate and switch back and forth between apps, and simultaneously send and receive messages through chat heads which are overlaid on the screen.I think this is a really big deal for Facebook, said Peter Corbett of the research firm iStrategyLabs.Weve actually seen Facebook call themselves a mobile company recently and if you look at their analytics, more than half of their users are accessing Facebook through mobile. Now that they have what will essentially be a native branch of the Android operating system that they control and build upon, this is the future of Facebook.Corbett added that Apple should be worried to a certain extent because Facebook will put this in front of millions and millions of the worlds youth who may decide I want a Facebook phone instead of an iPhone.Analyst Trip Chowdhry said the new software is a potentially groundbreaking experience which could help Facebook compete with Google in the market for mobile advertising.Since Facebook is not imitating, they will carve a leadership position, he said, adding that Google missed a huge opportunity in social mobile phones.The announcement comes with Facebook trying to connect more with mobile users, and -- importantly -- deliver more ads in the fast-growing segment.The research firm eMarketer said US mobile advertising spending grew 178 percent last year to $4.11 billion, a market that nearly tripled last year.Google took more than half of those revenues, but Facebooks share in growing: eMarketer said the social network accounted for 9.5 percent of mobile ad revenues in 2012 and is expected to take 13.2 percent this year.

Bowlers watch out, law has changed Posted: DUBAI (AP) - If a bowler breaks the stumps at the non-strikers end during a delivery, umpires will call it a no-ball from April 30 in all international cricket.The International Cricket Councils new law will first affect a one-day international between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh at Bulawayo on May 3.The recent interpretation used in international matches to call dead ball when a bowler breaks the wicket during a delivery has not adequately dealt with this situation, ICC general manager cricket Geoff Allardice said in a statement on Thursday.Although Marylebone Cricket Club wanted to introduce the new no-ball law from Oct. 1, the ICC wanted to introduce the new playing condition as early as possible.Allardice said there was a lot of important cricket before Oct. 1, including the Champions Trophy in June in England and Wales.

No Prior for England in Champions Trophy squad Posted: LONDON (AP) - Matt Prior missed out on a return to limited-overs cricket for England after being overlooked for a place in the provisional 30-man squad for the Champions Trophy in June.Prior is Englands first-choice test wicketkeeper, scoring an unbeaten century to spare England a series defeat to New Zealand last month, but has struggled in the one-dayers and hasnt played in the format internationally since March 2011.Craig Kieswetter, Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler were preferred as options behind the stumps for the tournament that England will host from June 6-23.England included four uncapped players batsmen Gary Ballance and Varun Chopra and bowlers James Harris and Chris Wright in an enlarged squad that must be trimmed to 15 names by May 5.Star batsman Kevin Pietersen was called up even though he is currently sidelined with a knee injury.This is a balanced squad which will provide the selectors with strong options in all areas, national selector Geoff Miller said. With this country hosting the tournament for the first time since 2004, there will be every incentive for England to perform well and we anticipate intense competition for places in our final squad.Test specialists Nick Compton and Monty Panesar join Prior in missing out on a call-up, as England goes in search of its first major 50-over title.

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