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Nexus News - Issue 2 
Asteroid Contact Lost
WTO Conference On
CIA Spy Scandal
Igloo Scientists Quit
Oil Tanker Seized
Asteroid Contact Lost 
Astronomers have lost all visual contact with the Damocles asteroid, due to rendezvous with Earth in 20 years’ time. "It is possible the asteroid was destroyed by a stellar collision," said Paul Hewson, the head researcher at Mount Palomar Observatory. "A more disturbing possibility is that it fell through a null pocket and that it could reappear in our skies with little warning." He then went on to say that "On the other hand, this asteroid may have ended up being the one that killed the dinosaurs, millions of years ago. There’s no way to know."
WTO Conference On 
An international political and economic summit is to take place in Toronto next month. Leaders from all the major world powers will be on hand to discuss trade agreements in light of changing political times. Important figures at the table include Canada’s Marion McCloud and US President George W. Bush. There was some concern about safety, but RHPM McCloud assured the delegates that metahuman taskforce Canadian Shield will be on hand to provide security to avoid the repetition of the 1999 WTO conference disruptions.
CIA Spy Scandal 
The Central Intelligence Agency is embroiled in a sex scandal of Tailhook proportions, concerning the conduct of field agents. At the centre of it is Special Agent Gail Heller, who was the investigating officer until she was reassigned and then resigned from the CIA two months ago. With sexual assault and cover-up allegations flying, the agency refuses to disclose any details and the agents involved are forbidden to speak with the press, facing treason charges if they do so as the missions they were on during the alleged incidents were of a politically sensitive nature. Ms. Heller could not be reached for comment.
Igloo Scientists Quit 
Three scientists at The Igloo have quit their research posts in the last month, citing moral conflict with the nature of their research. This has confused officials, as the Igloo’s mandate is to give each scientist complete freedom to pursue whatever research interests them, free from any political agenda. Clayton Denwood (genetics), Jeff Tassin (immunology), and Ian Sattler (pathology), since their leaving the institute, have disappeared from public view and have either sold or abandoned their homes or apartments.
Oil Tanker Seized 
Greenpeace extremists seized a Saudi Arabian supertanker, bound for the United States on Tuesday. The crew were sent back to their point of origin on a radio-controlled tugboat and were apparently subjected to mind-altering drugs as none of them could recall anything about the incident. The supertanker has since disappeared and is believed sunken as it vanished from even satellite surveillance, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, headed south. This is the third tanker to be lost at sea in as many weeks.
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