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China's Foreign Ministry says it can not confirm reports that the nation successfully tested a new anti-satellite weapon last week.

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Japan has joined the United States in expressing concern over China's apparent test of a weapon that attacks satellites in space.

For months, Iraqi and U.S. officials have been trying to shut down a satellite television station that shows Iraqi insurgent videos and denounces the Shi'ite-led government of Iraq. But the station continues to be broadcast on Nilesat, a satellite provider run by the government of Egypt, one of Washington's closest allies in the Middle East.

Members of the far left in Italy's governing coalition are threatening to vote against refinancing the country's mission to Afghanistan. The lawmakers are angry at the government's decision to allow the United States to expand a base in northern Italy.

Millions of Hindus are expected to gather in the northern Indian city of Allahabad for a dip in the Ganges River Friday, considered the most auspicious day in the "Ardh Kumbh Mela" religious festival.

Space experts have confirmed a report that China successfully tested a new anti-satellite weapon last week, firing the weapon to destroy one of its own old satellites.

Senators from the Democratic Party and from U.S. President George W. Bush's Republican Party have announced agreement on a draft resolution opposing Bush's plan to increase the U.S. deployment in Iraq by 21,500 troops.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says U.S. commanders in Afghanistan are recommending increased troop levels to help combat the growing Taleban insurgency. The recommendation comes on top of President Bush's decision to send an additional 20,000 U.S. troops to Iraq. Gates' comments came the same day NATO-led forces said they had captured a "prominent" Taleban commander during a raid in southern Afghanistan.

Democratic Senator Barack Obama, a rapidly rising star on America's political scene, has taken a first step toward a possible run for president in 2008.

Modern humans who first arose in Africa had moved into Europe as far back as about 45,000 years ago, according to a new study by an international research team led by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

U.S. President George Bush is sending more troops to Iraq as part of what he says will be a new way forward. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns looks at the president's changing approach to the conflict.

Blanket assertions that immigrants remain closely tied to their homelands and only partly integrate are questioned in a new study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Researchers asked Arab community activists in Britain and the United States to share their views on citizenship, integration and multiculturalism.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has threatened to review relations with any country that criticized his government's execution of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Police in Spain have discovered a container with 100 kilograms of explosives in the northern Basque region. The discovery came five days after a car bomb, blamed on Basque separatists, destroyed a parking garage at Madrid airport, killing at least one person and injuring about 20.