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Iran Claims To Be Making Steady Progress In Enriching Uranium
Vienna (AFP) May 15, 2007Iran has made progress in enriching uranium despite UN sanctions against this strategic work, UN nuclear inspectors have learned, diplomats told AFP Tuesday. The news shows Iran is moving towards meeting the claim made in April by its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Tehran had achieved an "industrial scale" of enrichment. Enrichment is the process that makes fuel for nuclear power react ... more Proposed Cuts Endanger Future Combat System Warns Pentagon 
Washington (AFNS) May 16, 2007Proposed cuts to the Army's Future Combat Systems endanger a program that would improve military capabilities today and in the future, said Army Lt. Gen. Stephen M. Speakes, the service's director of force development and deputy chief of staff. News reports say Congress proposes $876 million worth of cuts for the Future Combat Systems in the fiscal 2008 budget request. The total Future Combat Sy ... more North Korea Says Work To Transfer Bank Funds Under Way 
Seoul (AFP) May 15, 2007North Korea said Tuesday that work is under way to settle a banking row which has blocked international efforts to prevent it making nuclear weapons, raising hopes of progress after months of delay. A foreign ministry spokesman promised to start shutting down atomic plants under UN supervision as soon as millions of dollars in cash frozen overseas under US-inspired sanctions is successfully tran ... more Missile Defense Funding Reaches Compromise Point 
Washington (UPI) May 14, 2007Was last week's congressional compromise on U.S. ballistic missile defense funding a disastrous defeat for the program, or was it a resounding victory for ensuring the survival and continued funding of key programs? Was it a bitter, short-sighted bipartisan fight of the kind that gives Congress a bad name? Or was it a triumph for constructive bipartisanship that forged a new and likely lasting c ... more An Iraqi Compromise Plan 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 15, 2007The United States continues discussing a bill on the funding of its troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. U.S. President George W. Bush did not accept the version Congress approved. For a long time, the Iraqi issue has been an element of domestic policies in the United States and Britain, which led a military mission to overthrow Saddam Hussein regime four years ago. The political decisions made by th ... more |
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Nottingham UK (SPX) May 16, 2007It's a cooker, a fridge and a generator in one - and it could have a huge impact on the lives of people in the world's poorest communities. The 2m pound SCORE (Stove for Cooking, Refrigeration and Electricity) project brings together experts from across the world to develop a wood-powered generator capable of both cooking and cooling food. By developing an affordable, versatile domestic ap ... more Russian Pipeline Monopoly Takes Over Oil Product Transit Firm 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 16, 2007Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov has signed a resolution on merging the state-controlled crude pipeline operator Transneft with the state-run oil product transit company Transnefteprodukt, the government's press office said Tuesday. Analysts say the merger is likely to raise the companies' efficiency and cut independent producers' expenses on oil and petroleum product transportation. ... more Researchers Identify Compounds When Making Cellulosic Ethanol 
Waco, TX (SPX) May 16, 2007As cellulosic ethanol becomes more and more a front-runner to help reduce the country's "addiction to oil," the high cost of producing it still stands as one of the major hurdles. But now, Baylor University researchers have identified about 40 different compounds created in the pre-treatment step when making cellulosic ethanol that could be responsible for restricting the fermenting process, whi ... more US Naval Academy-Built Satellite To Carry NASA Experiments 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 15, 2007A partnership between NASA and the U.S. Naval Academy is offering students real-world experience. During 2007 and 2008, students at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., will build a satellite called "MidSTAR-2" through a U.S. Department of Defense program that will carry four experiments into space in 2011 to look at different parts of Earth's atmosphere, gamma rays and solar winds. S ... more EU Adopts Common Defence Industry Strategy 
Brussels (AFP) May 14, 2007European Union countries made a new move Monday to pool defence resources by adopting a common strategy to manage the business aspects of EU defence and end the patchwork approach of today. The Defence Technological and Industrial Base (DTIB) strategy is aimed at establishing a common defence future in areas like research and development for the EU's 27 member nations. It would allow the E ... more |
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Muscat (AFP) May 14, 2007President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned the United States on Monday that Tehran would retaliate severely to any possible attack over its controversial nuclear programme. "They (the Americans) understand that if they should make this mistake, the retaliation of the Iranian people will be severe and they will repent," he told reporters in Abu Dhabi at the end of a landmark visit to the United Arab Em ... more Northrop Grumman Demos Low-Cost Autonomous Control System For Recon Planes 
El Segundo CA (SPX) May 15, 2007Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully shown how its low-cost, autonomous control system can manage a variety of U.S. Army reconnaissance aircraft to deliver timely information about enemy positions to troops on the ground. Northrop Grumman is developing the "HURT" system in a program managed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory ... more Submarines Star As Asia Pacific Beefs Up Maritime Defences 
Singapore (AFP) May 14, 2007Navies in the Asia-Pacific are expected to spend 108 billion US dollars to boost submarine and other maritime defences over the next 10 years, organisers of a defence conference said Monday. They said the spending would outstrip maritime defence expenditure in the US and Europe. Nearly 30 percent, or 30 billion dollars, will go to acquiring submarines, while the rest will buy anti-submarin ... more Elbit Systems Introduces Silver Marlin Unmanned Surface Vehicle 
Tel-Aviv, Israel (SPX) May 15, 2007Drawing on world class know-how derived from generations of Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) design, development and operation, Elbit Systems newest offering in the unmanned platform field is Silver Marlin, a fast, agile and highly maneuverable Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV). New on the sea front and ready to make waves, Silver Marlin is a medium-sized USV featuring autonomous obstacle avoidance ... more Japanese Scientists In Eye Of Storm ... With Goggles 
Yokohama (AFP) Japan, May 14, 2007Japanese scientists who want to be in tune with their work can now stand in the eye of a typhoon or observe close-up walls of whirling wind -- with the help of some goggles. In what is billed as unique technology, Japanese researchers have created three-dimensional images from stocks of data culled over the years and fed into computers. "Thanks to this system, we can discover so much more ... more
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