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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Morning Digest: U.S. to send missile defenses to Guam over North Korea threat

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U.S. to send missile defenses to Guam over North Korea threat
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said it would soon send a missile defense system to Guam to defend it from North Korea, as the U.S. military adjusts to what Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called a "real and clear danger" from Pyongyang..
China mobilizes to fight new bird flu; Japan, HK on guard
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said it was mobilizing resources nationwide to combat a new strain of deadly bird flu that has killed three people, as Japan and Hong Kong stepped up vigilance against the virus and Vietnam banned imports of Chinese poultry..
Stock index futures signal early gains
PARIS (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.51 percent, Dow Jones up 0.43 percent and Nasdaq 100 up 0.44 percent at 5.23 a.m. EDT..
Conductor Salonen dashes from Frank Zappa to Stravinsky
LONDON (Reuters) - Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen dislikes musical anniversaries but he is celebrating so many this year he failed to notice one - the 20th anniversary of the death of the anarchic American rock innovator Frank Zappa..
Rutgers fires basketball coach after abuse video surfaces
NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Rutgers University fired the head of its men's basketball team on Wednesday after the release of video showing him shoving players, hurling balls at their heads and berating them with homophobic slurs..
Dutch bank ING online customers find wrong account balance
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch bank ING was inundated with complaints from retail and business customers in the Netherlands on Wednesday because their online accounts showed incorrect balances..
Scientists race to gauge pandemic risk of new bird flu
LONDON (Reuters) - Genetic sequence data on a deadly strain of bird flu previously unknown in people show the virus has already acquired some mutations that might make it more likely to cause a human pandemic, scientists say..
Popstar Justin Bieber given month to collect pet monkey
BERLIN (Reuters) - Teenage pop sensation Justin Bieber has been given a month to provide German authorities with the papers they need to release his pet monkey "Mally"..
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