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Missile Successfully Launches From Vandenberg
Vandenberg AFB CA (AFPN) Aug 14, 2008A Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile configured with a National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, test assembly was launched from North Vandenberg at 1:01 a.m. Aug. 13. The launch was an operational test to determine the weapon system's reliability and accuracy. The missile's three unarmed re-entry vehicles traveled approximately 4,220 nautical miles to ... more Iran boosts range on warplanes 
Tehran (AFP) Aug 17, 2008Iran has upgraded its fighter jets to allow them to fly 3,000 kilometres without refuelling, Iran's air force commander said on Sunday, which would put arch-foe Israel easily within reach. "We have succeeded in upgrading the capabilities of our planes and have increased the range of these planes to 3,000 kilometres (1,860 miles) without refuelling," Brigadier General Ahmad Mighani was quoted ... more Georgia 'will join NATO': Merkel 
Tbilisi (AFP) Aug 17, 2008German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday assured Georgia would join NATO as she strongly backed the ex-Soviet republic's President Mikheil Saakashvili in his conflict with Russia. "Georgia will become a member of NATO if it wants to -- and it does want to," she told reporters before talks with Saakashvili in Tbilisi. It was one of the strongest statements yet of support for Georgia's ... more Blown away: Georgian soldiers say Russian planes destroyed army 
Tbilisi (AFP) Aug 17, 2008As he lies in a Tbilisi hospital, his leg missing from the knee down, Lieutenant Roman Abashidze reflects on the reason for Georgia's crushing defeat to Russian forces. "I think that if there had not been Russian air forces, then yes, we had a chance," he says as he shifts his body by grabbing a steel bar running above his bed. Like others recovering in the Georgian capital after their a ... more Sniper ATP-Equipped B-1B Has Combat First 
Southwest Asia (SPX) Aug 14, 2008A Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod-equipped B-1B Lancer had its first weapon employment in combat here Aug. 4 successfully targeting enemy forces on the ground and dropping one guided bomb unit-38 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The Sniper ATP, a long-range precision targeting system, provides enhanced target identification for aircrew, allowing them to detect and analyze targets on ... more |
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Crawford, Texas (AFP) Aug 17, 2008The White House said Sunday that Iran's announcement it had launched a home-built rocket into space was "troubling" because such technology could also be used for ballistic missiles. "The Iranian development and testing of rockets is troubling and raises further questions about their intentions," spokesman Gordon Johndroe said as US President George W. Bush spent time on his Texas ranch. ... more Japan pressured to oppose US-India nuclear deal 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 15, 2008Anti-nuclear campaigners launched a campaign Friday to press nuclear energy suppliers to stop an accord between India and the United States, saying it would shatter anti-proliferation efforts. A loose coalition including activists and scholars focused efforts on Japan, which has been non-committal on the deal that would give India access to nuclear technology without signing the Non-Proliferation ... more OECD slams Britain's corporate bribery record: report 
London (AFP) Aug 17, 2008OECD member-states have written to Britain criticising London's failure to deal with corporate bribery, the Financial Times said Sunday. According to the business daily's website, the letter was sent in June, around a month before the House of Lords, Britain's highest court, overturned a ruling that British anti-corruption investigators acted unlawfully by stopping a probe into a huge arms ... more Rice to visit Poland to sign missile shield deal 
Washington (AFP) Aug 17, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday she would travel to Poland in coming days to ink a deal on installing US interceptor missiles on Polish territory. "I'm going to Poland to sign a missile defense agreement in the next couple of days, after the NATO meeting," she told Fox News Sunday. Foreign ministers of the 26 NATO members are due to meet in Brussels on Tuesday to ... more Tougher Russia could complicate UN work 
United Nations (AFP) Aug 16, 2008A more assertive Russia as shown in the Georgia conflict could complicate the diplomatic resolution of hot issues on the UN Security Council's agenda, such as Iran's nuclear activities, diplomats and experts say. As the 15-member council scrambled Saturday to craft a revised draft resolution to formalize the French-brokered ceasefire between Moscow and Tbilisi, a Western diplomat said any ... more |
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Tipperary, Ireland (SPX) Aug 18, 2008New York-based First Pellet Boilers (FPB) and Ireland-based Gerkros Boilers have joined forces to bring a competitive new choice to U.S. consumers for carbon-neutral, ultra-high-efficiency, low-cost home heating solutions. In a three-year licensing deal, worth up to $40 million, Gerkros selected Irish-owned FPB as its exclusive U.S. distributor to market the company's award-winning ... more Turning Waste Material Into Ethanol 
Ames IA (SPX) Aug 18, 2008Say the word "biofuels" and most people think of grain ethanol and biodiesel. But there's another, older technology called gasification that's getting a new look from researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University. By combining gasification with high-tech nanoscale porous catalysts, they hope to create ethanol from a wide range of biomass ... more Russia wants to send naval fleet to Venezuela: Chavez 
Caracas (AFP) Aug 17, 2008President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Russian President Dimitri Medvedev wants to send a Russian naval fleet to visit Venezuela. "Russia has informed us they intend to visit Venezuela, that is, the intention that a Russian fleet should come to the Caribbean," Chavez said on his weekly radio program. "I told the president (Medvedev), 'If you're coming to the Caribbean, we'll welcome you ... more Japan, China foreign ministers discuss gas projects, NKorea 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 17, 2008The foreign ministers of Japan and China were to meet Sunday to discuss joint development of gas fields in the East China Sea and North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, an official said. The talks between Japan's Masahiko Komura and China's Yang Jiechi come amid rapidly warming relations between the two Asian economic giants after decades of mistrust due in part to the legacy of ... more China's Tianjin building runway for Airbus test flights: report 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 17, 2008Airport officials in the northern Chinese port of Tianjin are building a second runway to test Airbus A320 planes built at a plant in the city, state media reported Sunday. The new runway would be ready for May 2009 and would also allow Tianjin, which is about 110 kilometres (70 miles) east of Beijing, to serve as a backup for the Capital International Airport, the Xinhua news agency reported ... more
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