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Crewman Qualification Training students hit the surf before the start of medical training instruction at the Silver Strand beach in Coronado, Calif. Washington (Telephost) - A bipartisan group of military experts released a statement and two reports today arguing that climate change poses a significant risk to U.S. national security. T he statement, released by the bipartisan group Climate Security Consensus project, argues that the effects of climate change will put a strain on water, food and energy supplies, which can result in "unique and hard-to-predict security risks." "The effects of climate change present a strategically-significant risk to U.S. national security and international security," the statement, signed by a bipartisan group of 25 national security and military leaders including Dr. Geoffrey Kemp, former special assistant to President Reagan for national security affairs and Dov S. Zakheim, former undersecretary of defense under President George...

The young demonstrator locked eyes with a riot policeman during a pro democracy protest in Santiago, Chile Santiago de Chile (Telephost) - The defiant look in a young woman's eyes as she stared at an armored riot policeman has prompted this photograph from Chile to go viral. The unidentified young woman was photographed during protests in Santiago, marking 43 years since the bloody military coup, which resulted in President Salvador Allende being overthrown, killed, and replaced with a military government led by Augusto Pinochet. The protesters were honoring the victims of the Pinochet regime -- the dictator was accused of ordering the torture and killing of thousands of people during his 17 years in power. He died in 2006 without ever being tried on the allegations. The march was organized by an association representing relatives of the disappeared. The photograph was taken by Reuters photographer Carlos Vera Mancilla outside the General Cemetery in Santiago in the commune of Rec...

A street vendor flees with his goods as Zimbabwe opposition supporters clash with police in Harare Harare (Telephost) - Zimbabwean police have announced a fresh ban on protests in the capital Harare, state media said Tuesday, in another attempt to end demonstrations against veteran ruler President Robert Mugabe. The order came hours after a coalition of opposition parties said they would stage mass rallies across the country on Saturday to push for reform before elections due in 2018. Anti-government campaigners vowed to defy the order and also appeal to the courts. "These are the last kicks of a dying regime and we expected no better from them," Douglas Mwozora, spokesman for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) opposition party, told AFP. "They have no respect for the law but we are not going to surrender our constitutional right. We are going back to the courts to challenge this illegal ban." An earlier protest ban in Harare was overturned by the courts last...

An Indian police officer detains a youth as they walk past burning trucks that belong to the neighboring Tamil Nadu state set ablaze by angry mobs in Bangalore, Karnataka state, India New Delhi (Telephost) - Incidents of looting and vandalism eased Tuesday in parts of India's information technology hub of Bangalore after authorities imposed a curfew amid widespread protests overnight over India's top court ordering the southern state of Karnataka to release water from a disputed river to a neighboring state. On Monday, police fired at a group pf protesters who set on fire a police jeep and motorbike killing one protester and wounding another in Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka state, said police officer Madhukar Narote. Authorities then imposed the curfew in the troubled parts of Bangalore, bringing the situation under control, he said. The curfew came after rampaging mobs set fire to dozens of buses, trucks and cars and attacked shops and businesses in Bangalore and some...

US Flies Bombers in Show of Force Against North Korea Seoul (Telephost) - Two U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers flew over South Korea near the border with North Korea today to reinforce the U.S. commitment to its regional ally after the North's latest nuclear test. The supersonic B-1 bombers took off from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam before conducting low-level flights in the vicinity of Osan Air Base near Seoul, just 75 miles from the border with North Korea. The bombers were accompanied by a Korean F-15K fighter aircraft, as well as a U.S. F-16 fighter aircraft. "The United States and the Republic of Korea are taking actions every day to strengthen our alliance and respond to North Korea's continued aggressive behavior," Gen. Vincent Brooks said in a press release. "Today's demonstration provides just one example of the full range of military capabilities in the deep resources of this strong alliance to provide and strengthen extended deterrence. The alliance ...