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One dead in shooting at Thai protest site
Xi urges China to build up joint space and air power
Lock of Napoleon's hair stolen in Australia

One dead in shooting at Thai protest site

Posted: 15 Apr 2014 02:04 AM PDT

Bangkok (AFP) - One person was shot dead on Tuesday at the site of an anti-government rally in the Thai capital Bangkok, emergency services said, in the latest in a string of violent attacks.

The 40-year-old man was killed by an unknown attacker in the early hours of the morning near the rally stage in Lumpini Park, according to the city's Erawan emergency centre.

He was working as a security guard for the anti-government movement, according to rally spokesman Akanat Promphan.

"We don't know who was responsible," he added.

Police said they had no information about the incident and had not visited the scene of the shooting.

Access to the protest site is usually restricted by the rally guards, who have fraught relations with the police.

The area near where the attack happened has been thronged with revellers celebrating the traditional Thai New Year water festival this week.

Opposition demonstrators have staged more than five months of mass street protests seeking to force Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office.

Grenade attacks and shootings linked to the unrest have left 25 people dead and hundreds wounded in recent months, including many protesters.

The violence has eased somewhat since the rallies were scaled back at the start of March, when demonstrators abandoned their occupation of major intersections in Bangkok and converged on Lumpini Park.

The protesters want Yingluck to step down and make way for an unelected interim government to oversee reforms aimed at curbing the political dominance of her billionaire family.

Thailand has seen years of political conflict and rival street protests by opponents and supporters of her brother, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. He was ousted from office by a coup in 2006 and lives overseas to avoid jail for a corruption conviction.

Xi urges China to build up joint space and air power

Posted: 15 Apr 2014 01:35 AM PDT

Beijing (AFP) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged further integration of air and space defence capabilities, in what experts described Tuesday as a response to the militarisation of space by rivals including the United States.

China says its ambitious space programme is peaceful, but such claims were first questioned in 2007 when the military used a ground-based missile to destroy one of its own satellites in orbit.

According to several specialist websites, China last May also tested part of a new anti-satellite ballistic missile.

Xi told the country's air force to "speed up airspace integration and sharpen their offensive and defensive capabilities", the official Xinhua news agency said late Monday in a report which did not elaborate on how this should be done.

The state-run China Daily newspaper on Tuesday quoted Wang Ya'nan, deputy editor-in-chief of Aerospace Knowledge magazine in Beijing, as saying the move was in response to the "need of the times".

"The United States has paid considerable attention and resources to the integration of capabilities in both air and space, and other powers have also moved progressively toward space militarisation," Wang was quoted as saying.

"Though China has stated that it sticks to the peaceful use of space, we must make sure that we have the ability to cope with others' operations in space."

The China Daily article said "the idea of combining air and space capability is not new to the Chinese air force".

But China's space programme has previously focused more on commerce and science rather than defence.

Beijing sees the programme as a symbol of its rising global stature and technological advancement, as well as of the Communist Party's success in reversing the fortunes of the once-impoverished nation.

Lock of Napoleon's hair stolen in Australia

Posted: 15 Apr 2014 12:58 AM PDT

Sydney (AFP) - A lock of Napoleon Bonaparte's hair and other "priceless" artefacts linked to the French emperor have been stolen from a museum in Australia, police said Tuesday.

Burglars broke into the building on Victoria state's Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne, in what was believed to be a targeted robbery.

"The offender(s) have jemmied open cabinets inside and stolen numerous priceless antiques," a police statement said.

"The stolen items included a ring and (a glass frame) containing Napoleon's hair, a ribbon inscribed by Napoleon in 1815 and a snuff box."

The thieves removed outside blinds and entered through a bathroom of the historic Briars Park homestead in Mount Martha last Thursday night.

The museum said the collection was put together by descendants of Englishman Alexander Balcombe, who met Napoleon when he was exiled on the tiny South Atlantic island of St Helena from 1815 until the emperor's death six years later.

Balcombe had "sat on Napoleon's knee as a little boy", museum coordinator Steve York told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

"The family were good friends with the emperor when he was sent into exile on St Helena," he added.

Balcombe settled in Australia in 1846.

Ten items were taken from the collection, including locks of Napoleon's hair and a silver inkwell set with three gold Napoleon coins which were allegedly in his pocket when he died.

Miniature portraits of Napoleon and Josephine were also stolen.

"Really they're priceless because they can't be replaced. We're quite distraught," York said.

The rest of the collection of nearly 500 pieces has now been re-located for safety.

Police said the robbery appeared to have lasted just 10 minutes and been a targeted theft.

"We think it's probably destined for a private collection. It could well be stolen to order," Detective Sergeant Michael Lamb told the ABC.

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