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Meanwhile the front pages of both the WP and the NYT national edition state that the Defense Department has given the green light to test-firing a powerful laser at a satellite orbiting some 200-plus miles up.
In India, the Asian Age led Wednesday with a report claiming Clinton "shares India's concern over cross-border terrorism from Pakistan," while the Pioneer reported the Pentagon was considering new sanctions against Pakistan after its recent test-firing of a homemade surface-to-surface missile.
The New York Times leads with Iran's test-firing of a missile with a range sufficient to strike Israel, Saudi Arabia, and most of Turkey--a story nobody else has on the front page.
The fronts at USAT and LAT report North Korea's test-firing of a ballistic missile Monday, a test which sent the missile's second stage clear across Japan and displayed a far greater range than was previously attributed to it.
In Japan, Mainichi Shimbun said that North Korea's agreement with the United States this week to suspend plans for further test-firing of long-range missiles "by no means constitutes a fundamental solution to the North Korean missile problem."