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US Offers To Boost Missile Cooperation with Russia
Brussels (AFP) March 29, 2007The United States offered Thursday to boost cooperation with Russia on missile defence, including sharing technologies and research as well as developing missile defence systems. The offer, by US ambassador to NATO Victoria Nuland, comes a day after President George W. Bush tried to assuage Russian anger over Washington's plans to build part of its missile shield in Europe. "The Unit ... more Indian Plans Naval Wargames With China, Japan, Russia, US 
New Delhi (AFP) March 29, 2007India is sending its largest warships for joint manoeuvres with China, Japan, Russia and the US where it will showcase its growing naval strength, officials said Thursday. Three Indian destroyers, a missile corvette, tankers and other combat ships will kick off the two-month series with five days of exercises with US warships beginning April 6 off the Japanese island of Okinawa, they said. ... more A New Era Of Nuclear Fear May Loom In Shadown Of Missile Shield 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 30, 2007Media reports from the last few weeks increasingly resemble Hollywood horror movies. The United States is reportedly developing a new-generation hydrogen warhead for its Trident II, (D-5) strategic submarines. The Pentagon plans to deploy elements of its National Missile Defense System, namely, an early-warning radar and ground-based interceptor, or GBI, launchers, in the Czech Republic and Pola ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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US Missile Defense Chief Argues For Missile Shield In Space
Washington (RIA Novosti) Mar 28, 2007A senior U.S. official in charge of America's missile defense program told a congressional committee Tuesday that some elements should be deployed in space, including a "space-based layer" in near-Earth orbit. Addressing the Armed Services Committee, Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering III, director of the U.S. missile defense program, sought to justify the need for substantial spending on th ... more US Denies Pressuring Iran Backs Britain Over Detainees 
Washington (AFP) March 28, 2007The United States on Wednesday denied that its naval exercises in the Gulf are meant to pressure Iran, and stressed US support for Britain as Tehran holds 15 of its naval personnel. "These military exercises were long planned and so there is no escalation of tension on our part," spokeswoman Dana Perino said. On Tuesday, the Pentagon said the exercise was aimed at reassuring friends and al ... more The Iran Crisis Deepens In Tit For Tat Responses 
Wasghington (UPI) Mar 28, 2007We have seen this movie before. One of the West's leading statesmen, and a powerful advocate for human rights, is deliberately humiliated by hostage-seizing Iranian radicals. Moreover, the Iranian radicals believe they can get away with it because they know perfectly well that the Western leaders are constrained by their own moral code to abide, as far as they can, by international law. An ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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Two US Carriers In Gulf War Games For First Time Since 2003
Manama (AFP) March 27, 2007The US navy said on Tuesday it is staging major war games in the Gulf with two aircraft carriers for the first time since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, at a time of heightened tension with Iran. The manoeuvres involve the USS John C. Stennis, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and their battle groups. They are being held as tensions run high between the West and the Islamic republic over Tehr ... more Northrop Grumman Successfully Completes F-22 Radar Flight-Test Certification 
Baltimore MD March 26, 2007Northrop Grumman successfully completed radar flight-test certification for the fourth-generation variant of the active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for the U.S. Air Force's F-22 Raptor. The fourth-generation AESA radar, designated the AN/APG-77V(1), brings a significant upgrade to the F-22 aircraft beginning with Lot 5 and provides the capability to carry out numerous search a ... more Boeing Helps US Air Force B-1 Fleet Reach 500,000 Flight Hours 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Mar 28, 2007Boeing, which performs development, production and sustainment work on the B-1 bomber, has helped the U.S. Air Force B-1 fleet surpass 500,000 flight hours. The aircraft reached the milestone during a March 1 flight. The $2.8 billion Conventional Mission Upgrade Program awarded to Boeing in 1993 adds computers, weapons, and communication and navigation equipment to maintain the B-1's relev ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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Russia Destroys Chemical Weapons On Schedule
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 27, 2007The executive council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) met in The Hague in the middle of March. It reviewed the obligations that had been fulfilled in 2006 by signatories to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and made plans for the future. The meeting was also attended by a Russian delegation, which had many things to report to those in attend ... more Boeing Helps US Air Force FAB-T Program Win Key Acquisition Award 
St Louis MO (SPX) Mar 27, 2007The replan of Boeing's family of Advanced Beyond line-of-sight Terminals (FAB-T) program -- a joint effort between Boeing and the U.S. Air Force Space Command -- has earned the Air Force's Agile Acquisition Transformation Leadership Award. The award, presented last month to the Space Command's FAB-T Alpha Contracting Team at the annual Acquisition Leaders Forum in Atlanta, Ga., recognizes ... more Pakistan Signs New Peace Deal With Taliban 
Khar (AFP) Pakistan, March 27, 2007Pakistani authorities and tribal elders Monday signed the latest in a series of peace deals with pro-Taliban militants in a troubled frontier area, officials and witnesses said. The deal was signed in Bajaur, one of Pakistan's seven federally administered tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, where Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri escaped an airstrike in January 2006. The tribesme ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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Envoys Seek New Bank To Settle North Korea Cash Dispute
Seoul (AFP) March 23, 2007Negotiators are trying to find a bank outside China to receive North Korea's frozen funds in an attempt to settle a banking dispute that has stalled nuclear disarmament talks, South Korea's envoy said Friday. The United States on Monday said it had cleared the way for the release of the 25 million dollars from a Macau bank, in an attempt to move the nuclear talks forward. But the designate ... more Flickers Of Hope In Iraq 
Washington (UPI) March 23, 2007The March 14 Los Angeles Times contained that rare bird, good news from Ramadi: The commander of U.S. troops in Iraq wanted some sweets, and nothing was going to stop him. Not even the fact that he was tramping through a neighborhood that only days ago had been teeming with snipers and al-Qaida fighters who would love nothing better that to say they had just shot Gen. David H. Petraeus. Wi ... more Top US Commander Plays Down China Threat 
Beijing (AFP) March 23, 2007The US military's top commander said here Friday that he did not believe China's armed forces were a threat and played down the prospects for hostilities in the Taiwan strait. Following complaints from Washington over China's rising military budget and a satellite-killing test, General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said his four-day visit was aimed at boosting US-Sino ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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