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Tensions Rise Between North Korea and the USA

US military starts installing a controversial missile defence system in South Korea

The US military has started installing a controversial missile defence system at a site in South Korea, amid high tensions over neighbouring North Korea's nuclear and missile ambitions.
Also in the programme; thousands more are rounded up in Turkey for suspected links to the Muslim preacher, Fethullah Gulen and; NASA's Cassini probe is making the first of twenty two dives through the narrow gap between the planet Saturn and its spectacular rings.

(Picture: A U.S. military vehicle, which is a part of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, arrives in Seongju, South Korea, April 26, 2017. Credit: Kim Jun-beom/Yonhap via Reuters)

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Wed 26 Apr 201713:06GMT

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