My Tuesday Emerging Threats for UPI. Click on headline for full story.
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., Dec. 30 (UPI) — One of the few remaining stockpiles of VX nerve agent has been safely destroyed, according to the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 30 (UPI) — As the security situation on the ground in Afghanistan has intensified, a unit of U.S. Air Force reservists has performed more than 1,100 rescue missions.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) — More than 1 million truck drivers have been approved to transport hazardous material in the United States, the Transportation Security Administration says.
NICOSIA, Cyprus, Dec. 30 (UPI) — The mine-removal operation taking place in Cyprus’s buffer zone could end in January without new funding from the international community.
MANILA, Philippines, Dec. 30 (UPI) — A government official in the Philippines says the county’s security objectives include ending the communist rebellion and resuming peace talks in the south.