JAPAN'S LARGEST WARSHIP IZUMO WITH 9 ATTACK HELICOPTERS GOES ON A MANEUVER TOUR OF THE SOUTH SEA LAST MARCH

Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, three sources said, in its biggest show of naval force in the region since World War II.
China claims almost all the disputed waters and its growing military presence has fuelled concern in Japan and the West, with the United States holding regular air and naval patrols to ensure freedom of navigation.
The Izumo helicopter carrier, commissioned only two years ago, will make stops in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka before joining the Malabar joint naval exercise with Indian and US naval vessels in the Indian Ocean in July.

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PEGGY WHITSON BECOMES THE LONGEST US ASTRONAUT TO LIVE IN SPACE WITH 665 DAYS UNDER HER BELT - AS THE LONGEST COSMONAUT ALSO RETURNED WITH HER FYODOR YURCHIKHIN WITH 673 DAYS

Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth late Saturday, wrapping up a record-breaking flight that catapulted her to first place for US space endurance.

Whitson's 665 days off the planet _ 288 days on this mission alone _ exceeds that of any other American and any other woman worldwide.

She checked out of the International Space Station just hours earlier, along with another American and a Russian. Their Soyuz capsule landed in Kazakhstan shortly after sunrise Sunday _ Saturday night back in the US

She set multiple other records while in orbit: world's oldest spacewoman, at age 57, and most experienced female spacewalker, with 10. She also became the first woman to command the space station twice following her launch last November.

Returning cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin logged even more time in space: 673 days over five missions. NASA astronaut Jack Fischer returned after 136 days aloft. The men flew up in April.

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THE NORTH KIM KOREA IS ON A SUICIDE MISSION WITH HIS COUNTRY AS HE PLEDGES A NUCLEAR ATTACK WITH THE THERMO NUCLEAR HYDROGEN BOMB NEWLY DEVELOPED AGAINST THE LONE COUNTRY THAT DROPPED NOT ONE BUT TWO ATOMIC BOMBS ON JAPAN'S NAGASAKI AND HEROSHIMA - AS THE USA IS NOT ONE TO HOLD BACK WHEN A ROGUE COUNTRY PLEDGES DESTRUCTION IN THE OPEN WITH A NUCLEAR ATTACK AND THE USA IS NOT ONE TO HOLD BACK WITH TOTAL NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION IF CALLED UPON TO DECIDE TO USE AGAINST NORTH KOREA FIRST BEFORE IT ATTACKS US

NORTH Korea has developed a hydrogen bomb which can be loaded into the country’s new intercontinental ballistic missile, the official Korean Central News Agency claimed Sunday. Questions remain over whether nuclear-armed Pyongyang has successfully miniaturised its weapons, and whether it has a working H-bomb, but KCNA said that leader Kim Jong-Un had inspected such a device at the Nuclear Weapons Institute. It was a “thermonuclear weapon with super explosive power made by our own efforts and technology”, KCNA cited Kim as saying, and “all components of the H-bomb were 100 percent domestically made”.

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THE GOP BACK WHEN WAS SO OUTRAGED ABOUT INCREASING THE DEBT CEILING UNDER THE POTUS BHO FOR 8 YEARS AND NOW THAT A GOP POTUS TRUMP IS IN THE OVAL OFFICE WHAT WE GET IS DEAD SILINCE - EXPECT A DEBT CEILING RAISED TO GROW THE DEBT HIGHER AND HIGHER THIS FALL SESSION OF THE 2017 CONGRESS

A senior Trump administration official guaranteed Friday a debt ceiling hike will occur next month and prevent a potentially damaging federal default.
“The debt ceiling will be raised,” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said, adding he has had talks with congressional leaders about how to get a bill raising America’s borrowing limit to President Donald Trump’s desk.
Mnuchin described White House officials and congressional leaders as “all on the same page,” adding: “The government intends to pay [its] debts.”[Trump Tries to Embarrass Another GOP Senator Via Twitter]
“I am 100 percent confident,” Mnuchin said of a debt-ceiling hike, adding he cannot see “any scenario” under which “the government won’t pay its bills.”
Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also have expressed confidence that lawmakers will indeed pass a debt ceiling-hiking measure next month. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer want to raise the borrowing limit with no dramatics.

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