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• UN Mission condemns attack on headquarters of Afghan electoral commission UN News Centre 29 Mar 2014 -- The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemned today's attack on the Kabul headquarters of the Independent Election Commission (IEC), the second attack on an Afghan election facility in the past four days, with presidential and provincial council polls just a week away.

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• US cyberspace force to expand further - Pentagon chief VoR 29 Mar 2014 -- US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday the cyberspace force at US Cyber Command will grow to more than 6,000 by the year 2016.
• Top secret Pentagon spacecraft stays in orbit over 469 days, breaks longevity record VoR 29 Mar 2014 -- The American secret X-37B unmanned spacecraft has broken its own longevity record by staying in orbit for more than 469 days.The spacecraft was launched in December, 2012, and remained in orbit ever since. The X-37B aerodynamic design was derived from the Space Shuttle, and it was also built with the idea of being easily re-launched after landing.
• Russia Has No Plans to Build Network of Military Bases Abroad – Lavrov RIA Novosti 29 Mar 2014 -- Russia has no intentions to open a network of military bases in other countries resembling a US military network abroad, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday.

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• US mulls sending anti-aircraft weapons to Syrian opposition VoR 29 Mar 2014 -- According to an AP report, President Barack Obama may authorize the shipment of new air defense systems to rebel forces in Syria.
• S Korea launches anti-Pyongyang leaflets, N Korea warns of 'war' VoR 29 Mar 2014 -- North Korea said Saturday its relations with South Korea had been driven into a 'catastrophic' phase again, warning the South's scattering of anti-Pyongyang leaflets could spark a war. The statement came hours after Pyongyang's foreign ministry said the North would bolster its 'war deterrent', accusing the United States of deliberately escalating tension through ongoing joint military drills with the South.

News Reports

• Klitschko Pulls Out Of Presidential Race RFE/RL 29 Mar 2014 -- Ukrainian politician Vitali Klitschko says he has decided against contesting a snap presidential election in May.
• Western media hush up some facts about Right Sector speaking about Ukraine - Russia's Lavrov VoR 29 Mar 2014 -- While covering the events in Ukraine, Western media conceal some facts about the Right Sector, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, has stated. Lavrov noted that he had for more than a month posed a question of the Right Sector and the need to distance from the radicals to the Western partners.
• Russian Black Sea Fleet gives up Ukrainian submarine Zaporizhzhya VoR 29 Mar 2014 -- The diesel-electric submarine Zaporizhzhya, project 641, which earlier formed part of Ukraine's Navy, is out of order and will not be used by the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Russian Navy Main Staff told the Interfax-AVN news agency on Saturday.
• Federal agreement is only way to reach Ukraine settlement – Lavrov VoR 29 Mar 2014 -- Russia believes that the only way for Ukraine to reach a settlement is to sign a federal agreement, said Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, in an interview with the anchor of the 'Saturday News with Sergei Brilev' TV programme earlier today. 'Current developments in Ukraine have resulted from a deep statehood crisis, triggered, among other things, by the inability (I'd hate to think of reluctance) of every successive leader coming to power to reconcile the interests of Ukraine's western region and Ukraine's South-East', the Russian Foreign Minister said. 'This cannot continue that way anymore'.
• Russia Accuses the West of Escalating Tensions Around Transdnestr RIA Novosti 29 Mar 2014 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sharply criticized the West of encouraging attempts by Chisinau and Kiev to create unbearable conditions for Moldova's breakaway region of Transdnestr.
• Attempts to Drive a Wedge Between Russia and China Futile, Naïve – Lavrov RIA Novosti 29 Mar 2014 -- Attempts to alienate Moscow and Beijing are futile and naïve as Russia and China share a similar understanding of the roots of the Ukrainian crisis, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday.
• Russia Has No Intentions to Invade Ukraine – Lavrov RIA Novosti 29 Mar 2014 -- Russia has no intentions or interests whatsoever to cross the Ukrainian borders, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday.
• US surveillance agency NSA collected data on 122 int'l leaders in one month VoR 29 Mar 2014 -- The US surveillance agency NSA collected data on 122 international leaders in a single month, the German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday, quoting from a document in the trove taken by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
• President backs legalizing scrutiny of cross-strait pacts CNA 29 Mar 2014 -- President Ma Ying-jeou expressed support Saturday for a proposal by protesters occupying the Legislature that a law be enacted to subject all agreements with China to close scrutiny.