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governments.Although this would be the first laser weapon built for defense against rockets, the Defense Department has no immediate plans to use it with U.S. forces, in part because the system is not easily transportable. The Pentagon is working on a variety of other laser weapon technologies that could be used to shoot down ballistic missiles in flight, although deployment of such weapons is at least a decade away.—Useful links:U.S Army Space and Missile Defense Command TRW. Dishes rattled and homes shook Wednesday morning as residents in Toronto and the surrounding area were shaken awake by a minor earthquake.

Dishes rattled and homes shook Wednesday morning as residents in Toronto and the surrounding area were shaken awake by a minor earthquake.
The Geological Survey of Canada confirmed that the rattling was a magnitude 3.0 earthquake that hit at 6:22 am (11:22 am BST) The quake was centred six miles northwest of Oshawa.Janet Dr of Canada, said a magnitude three earthquake can be felt by people, but other than shaking dishes, there’s rarely any serious damage.”People would likely have heard it as well as feel it,” she said. “They usually describe it as a clap of thunder, a truck hitting the side of a building or something like this.”Drysdale says there are usually two or three earthquakes a year in southern Ontario.On January 1, a magnitude 5.2 tremor rumbled through the province, the strongest earthquake to hit Ontario in 65 years. That quake, centred near North Bay, was felt as far north as Haileybury and as far south as upstate New York.. The United Nations has opened an investigation into the spate of vigilante killings of migrants crossing Mexico’s border with the USA.

A senior UN investigator is being dispatched to the harsh border country close to where a 74-year-old rancher has been charged with killing a Mexican he found on his land. The United Nations has opened an investigation into the spate of vigilante killings of migrants crossing Mexico’s border with the USA. A senior UN investigator is being dispatched to the harsh border country close to where a 74-year-old rancher has been charged with killing a Mexican he found on his land.
Eusebio de Haro crossed the Rio Grande last week to find himself a new life in the United States, but ended losing his life when he bled to death from a bullet wound to the groin. where vigilante “justice” claims more lives each week.Eusebio made the fatal mistake of stopping near Rancho Leona, in Texas, to plead for water and food at the end of a 35km hike along the border near Piedras Niegras in Mexico The temperature on 14 May topped 38C. By 4pm, he and his companion, Javier Sanchez, were sweltering and between them had nothing left to drink.In the past five years, nearly 500 Mexican immigrants, unprepared for the stark conditions of the high desert frontier, have died from exposure during the journey. To find the bodies of these victims of sunstroke and hypothermia, border patrolmen watch for buzzards circling low in the sky.According to Mr Sanchez, the grizzled rancher at Rancho Leona was fiercely unsympathetic.