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US 2016 Election:Republican debate turns dirty

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The Republican presidential race got dirty Thursday night. Donald Trump opened the GOP debate here by boasting about the size of his genitals. He responded to recent comments from Marco Rubio in which the Florida senator joked about the size of Trump's hands and said "you know what they say about men with small hands." On the debate stage, Trump stretched his hands out for the audience to see -- then insisted the suggestion that "something else must be small" was false. "I guarantee you there's no problem," Trump said to howls from the audience at the Fox debate. It was perhaps the most surreal moment yet in a presidential race that has already been dominated by unprecedented drama and personal attacks. Trump went into the debate after spending the day in a heated war of words with the party's 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney. Romney, who has blasted Trump for days, delivered a sharp condemnation of Trump earlier Thursday -- a deep

North Korea Leader Kim Jong-un orders Nuclear Arsenal on Standby

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Kim Jong-un's bombastic statement came after the UN security council's adoption of tough new sanctions on Pyongyang  Kim Jong-un has ordered North Korea's nuclear arsenal to be ready for pre-emptive use "anytime" following the UN security council's adoption of tough new sanctions on Pyongyang. "We must always be ready to fire our nuclear warheads at any time," Mr Kim was quoted as saying by the North's official KCNA news agency on Friday. Mr Kim also warned that the situation on the divided Korean peninsula had become so dangerous that the North needed to shift its military strategy to one of "pre-emptive attack". While the North is known to have a small stockpile of nuclear warheads, experts are divided about its ability to mount them on a working missile delivery system. According to KCNA, Mr Kim made his comments while monitoring the test firing of a new, high-calibre multiple rocket launcher on Thursday, just