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Funding Row Cloud Talks On US Missile Shield Plan
Washington (AFP) May 03, 2007President George W. Bush's administration warned Thursday that plans by Congress to cut funding for a missile defense shield in Europe could complicate negotiations for the installation of the facilities in Poland and Czech Republic. The strategic forces subcommittee of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted unanimously on Wednesday to block key funding for the missile installation ... more NATO Urges Russia Not To Abandon Arms Treaty 
Brussels (AFP) May 03, 2007NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer urged Russia on Thursday not to abandon an important Soviet-era treaty limiting troops and military hardware in Europe, an alliance official said. Closing a meeting with Russia's NATO ambassador in Brussels, Scheffer "asked that political consultations continue and that all parties refrain from unilateral and definitive actions," the official said ... more Rebuilding Iraq Still A Vague Operation 
Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt (UPI) May 03, 2007A five-year Iraqi reconstruction plan was formally launched Thursday at a high-level meeting of representatives of Iraq's friends, including Iran and the United States. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon inaugurated the International Compact with Iraq at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheik on the Red Sea. It followed a year's preparation, co-chair ... more Why US Deaths Are Rising Again In Iraq 
Washington (UPI) May 03, 2007U.S. fatalities are rising again in Iraq, but the strategy that is exposing them has also saved many lives. As has been widely reported, April marked the worst month of the more than 4-year-old insurgency in terms of fatalities suffered by U.S. troops in Iraq. In all, 104 of them died during the month, yielding an average rate through April of 3.1 per day. This is not the highest rate per ... more US And Iran Engage In Comic War 
Moscow (UPI) May 03, 2007I used to think soccer was the silliest pretext for war. I am talking about the Football War, also known as the Soccer War or the 100-hours War, a six-day conflict fought by El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. First soccer fans clashed on the field, and then the two countries took up arms. I was wrong: Iran has decided to outdo the Latin Americans. Their fury has been fuelled by "300," a ... more |
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Paris (AFP) May 03, 2007First, the bad news: more than 6,000 people should have died in a 17-day heatwave that gripped France last July. The good news: only 2,000 actually succumbed. The dilemma was revealed in a study published on Thursday by France's National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm) and the National Health Monitoring Institute (InVS). According to their mathematical model of the French ... more WHO's Steps To Patient Safety 
Washington (UPI) May 02, 2007All countries -- from richest to poorest -- can make patients safer by following nine steps, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. "Healthcare has a ways to go in order to become a high-reliability industry," said Karen Timmons, president and CEO of Joint Commission International, a body that accredits hospitals. About 10 percent of hospital patients in the developing world are har ... more Volcanic Eruptions In Kamchatka 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 03, 2007One of the most volcanically active regions of the world is the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Siberia, Russia. It is not uncommon for several volcanoes to be erupting at the same time. On April 26, 2007, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radioneter (ASTER) on NASA's Terra spacecraft captured these images of the Klyuchevskoy and Sheveluch stratovolcanoes, erupting ... more GE To Supply Additional 600 Megawatts Of Wind Turbines To Invenergy 
Atlanta GA (SPX) May 04, 2007GE Energy will provide an additional 600 megawatts of wind turbines to Invenergy Wind for 2008 projects in the United States and Canada. Invenergy previously announced the purchase of 600 megawatts of GE Energy wind turbines for 2007 projects. The latest order brings the total to 1,200 megawatts of GE 1.5-megawatt machines for projects over the next two years -- enough power for more than 300,00 ... more Scientists Seek Ways To Bury Greenhouse Gases 
Bangkok (AFP) May 03, 2007Scientists believe that finding a way to bury the world's greenhouse gas problem -- quite literally -- could be an important step to curbing climate change, but the technology is still in its infancy. The technology would capture carbon dioxide released by power plants or other factories, transport it and bury it underground -- either in old oil fields or coal mines, or even at the bottom of the ... more |
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Boston MA (SPX) May 03, 2007In the futuristic cartoon series "The Jetsons," a robotic maid named Rosie whizzed around the Jetsons' home doing household chores - cleaning, cooking dinner and washing dishes. Such a vision of robotic housekeeping is likely decades away from becoming reality. But at MIT, researchers are working on a very early version of such intelligent, robotic helpers - a humanoid called Domo who grasp obje ... more The Griffin Space Fantasy 
Honolulu HI (SPX) May 01, 2007NASA boss Mike Griffin says we can do three Apollo-scale projects over the next 50 years without increasing the NASA budget. It sounds too good to be true - and it is. Griffin's analysis of NASA's past relies on questionable economics and his vision of the future includes political and technical impossibilities. ... more Nuke Meeting Suspended After Iranian Objections As China Warned To Stop Iran Investments 
Vienna (AFP) May 03, 2007A UN conference considering ways to improve the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty suspended its work Wednesday following Iranian objections to a call in the proposed agenda for full compliance with the NPT. Conference chairman Japanese ambassador Yukiya Amano told the meeting that Thursday morning's session had been cancelled but would resume in the afternoon to try and find a way for an agenda t ... more A Scheming America Or An Uncooperative Russia 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 03, 2007Having suggested deployment of missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic, and achieved their tentative consent to host them, Washington has met with not only Russia's tough reaction but also the most unpleasant irritation of its main European allies. By offering Russia to discuss the Euro-ABM issue, the U.S. government is trying to cover up its mistake and ease tensions. It ... more Raytheon Tallies USD 100 Million In Awards For Patriot Missiles Upgrades 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) May 03, 2007Raytheon's Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missile-T (GEM-T) upgrade program reached its first-ever $100 million sales award. This award includes orders for the U.S. Army and a Foreign Military Sales contract for 230 GEM-T upgrades, plus spares. This is the largest order received to date for GEM-T and bolsters Raytheon's upgrade output to levels not seen since the mid 1990s. This large order ben ... more
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