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Pentagon Officials To Visit Ukraine For Missile Defence Talks
Kiev (AFP) March 06, 2007A Pentagon delegation is to visit Ukraine next week to discuss US plans to extend an anti-missile shield into neighbouring Poland and the Czech Republic, Defence Minister Anatoly Grytsenko said Tuesday. "To determine Ukraine's position on this matter we need detailed information on the elements of the shield that the United States plans on deploying on Polish and Czech territory," he told the Interfax news agency. US And Russia Could Cooperate On Missile Defense 
Tyumen, Siberia (RIA Novosti) Mar 07, 2007The United States is prepared to cooperate with Russia on missile defense, the U.S. Ambassador in Russia said Tuesday. William Burns, who is on a tour of Siberia, said both countries should continue a serious dialogue to clarify their respective positions and work out controversial issues. US Demands North Korea Come Clean About Uranium Program As Talks Continue 
New York (AFP) March 06, 2007The United States demanded Tuesday that North Korea come clean about its controversial highly enriched uranium program as the arch rivals ended landmark talks setting the pace for normalizing ties. US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said North Korea reportedly made "massive purchases of expensive equipment" from Pakistan's once-dreaded A.Q. Khan illicit nuclear network to drive the highly enriched uranium program. |
Iran To Test Air Defences At Key Nuclear Site
Tehran (AFP) March 06, 2007Iran is to test an air defence system around a key nuclear plant on Tuesday amid mounting international pressure over its atomic programme, the state news agency IRNA reported. No reason was given for the decision to hold the exercise at the Isfahan uranium conversion facility in central Iran, which is surrounded by anti-aircraft guns to ward off enemy attacks. Iranian Missing In Turkey Sparks Spy Snatch Talk 
Ankara (AFP) March 06, 2007Mystery swirled on Tuesday over the disappearance of a senior Iranian official in Turkey, with accusations in Tehran he was snatched by Western spy agencies and even the Israeli media suggesting it may have been the work of their own Mossad. Ali Reza Asghari, a former deputy defence minister said to have information about Iran's nuclear programme, went missing in Istanbul in February shortly after checking into a luxury hotel, press reports said. Are Russia And The West Polar Opposites Or Two Sides Of The Same Coin 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 07, 2007After returning to Frankfurt after my first extended stay in Moscow in 1988, my German Russian teacher agreed with my observation that the reality in the Soviet Union bore little relation to the impressions we gained from Western academic work and, especially, the Western media. Little has changed. |
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China Says Military Transparent And Not A Threat
Beijing (AFP) March 06, 2007China is only interested in peace and its military budget is transparent, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said Tuesday after US criticism over the build-up of its armed forces. "China pursues an independent foreign policy of peace. It safeguards its own lawful rights and interests, and also respects the lawful rights and interests of other countries," Li told reporters. "We pursue a national defence policy (of) ... increased military transparency," he added. The Battle For Haditha 
Haditha, Iraq (UPI) Mar 05, 2007More than a year and three battalions completing tours of duty there after it happened, U.S. Marines serving in the Iraqi city of Haditha still feel the psychological weight of the November 2005 alleged massacre when a squad of Marines shot and killed 24 Hadithans, shortly after one of their troops was killed by an improvised explosive device. Hadithans don't bring up the incident with the Americans much. It may be purely a political calculation, telling the occupiers only what they want to hear. Hope In Afghanistan 
Moscow (UPI) March 06, 2007It has become bad form not to lash out at NATO and the United States for their actions in Afghanistan. Many analysts are convinced that NATO's affairs there could not get any worse, and that the U.S. is getting bogged down there like it is in Iraq; that the situation in Afghanistan is going from bad to worse; that NATO and the U.S. are repeating the Soviet Union's mistakes and are doomed to the same fate. However, I believe these assessments are not quite fair. |
Tests To Reveal Levels Of Depleted Uranium In Army Personnel
Leicester UK (SPX) Mar 07, 2007A test recently used by the UK government's Independent Depleted Uranium Oversight Board to detect exposure to UK troops by depleted uranium (DU) during the 1991 Gulf Conflict was developed by a team led by a University of Leicester geologist. Randall Parrish, Professor of Isotope Geology, developed the test with Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Axel Gerdes, who now works at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, and his colleague Matt Horstwood at the British Geological Survey, using advanced mass spectrometry. US May Join Japan-India Drills 
Tokyo (AFP) March 05, 2007The United States may join Japan and India when the two Asian nations conduct their first joint naval drills this year in the Pacific, an official said Monday. Japan, which has been seeking to boost ties with India to counter frequent tension with China, agreed at a December summit to hold naval exercises with New Delhi in 2007. F-35 Production A Step Closer After Wind Tunnel Test 
Arnold AFB TN (SPX) Mar 07, 2007Arnold Engineering Development Center workers completed the last developmental wind tunnel test in February for all Joint Strike Fighter variants, helping put the F-35 Lightning II a step closer to manufacturing. It was the culmination of more than 8,600 hours and $50 million worth of wind tunnel testing of the Joint Strike Fighter over the past five years, said 1st Lt. Ezra Caplan, the AEDC Air Force project manager. |
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