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Japan Fury Over ABM Leaks By US Navy
Washington DC (UPI) July 11, 2007Japanese defense officials are furious that the U.S. Navy leaked details of a successful, top-secret missile defense exercise last week to the media, the Japan Times reported Wednesday. The newspaper said the Japanese Defense Ministry had wanted the details of the July 6 exercise to be kept tightly secret. Ironically, the exercise was a complete success, the newspaper said. It was to confi ... more UN Nuclear Watchdog To Return To North Korea On Saturday 
Seoul (AFP) July 12, 2007UN atomic agency inspectors will likely return to North Korea on Saturday to monitor the shutdown of its reactor, the agency's chief said, as long-stalled nuclear disarmament efforts gathered pace. "I think they will travel on the 14th so hopefully they will arrive there on the 14th," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei told reporters Wednesday on his arrival in Sou ... more Thales Offers New Situational Awareness System For The Soldier 
London UK (SPX) Jul 11, 2007The WBR Soldier Technology Conference in London sees the first public exhibition of MILTRAK, an advanced, compact and lightweight digitised soldier system from Thales UK. MILTRAK will improve the operational effectiveness of front line combat troops by providing commanders with vital situational awareness (SA) information, updated every few seconds. MILTRAK is a simple to use, flexible sys ... more Rumors Of War But Also Talk Of Peace 
Washington (UPI) July 11, 2007The week began with strong rumors of possible violence erupting between Syria and Israel sometime this summer. But an unexpected invitation from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to Syrian President Bashar Assad gave hope that instead of war it could be peace breaking out. In the first interview given to an Arab television network in seven years by an Israeli prime minister, Olmert addresses th ... more Cobra Unmanned Aircraft System Makes A Series Of Firsts In North Dakota 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 12, 2007Raytheon's Cobra Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) conducted the first official unmanned aircraft flight in North Dakota June 25. The Cobra flew approved flight profiles through military restricted airspace over Camp Grafton South, a National Guard training facility 45 miles south of Devil's Lake, N.D. In addition to being the first unmanned aircraft to fly in North Dakota airspace, these were also ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) July 11, 2007Two billion rats that have fled their flooded homes are on the march in central China, destroying farmland and posing a health risk to humans, state press reported Wednesday. The rats have spread out across 20 counties in central Hunan province, gnawing on crops and roots as they search for new homes, the China Daily said. Locals have launched a massive counter-attack, beating rats to death with ... more South Pacific US Slated To Be The World Model For Renewable Energy 
Vancouver WA (SPX) Jul 09, 2007The Vancouver-based Trimodal Group announced it has agreed to provide a comprehensive, renewable energy program to be executed in conjunction with South Pacific International, Inc., a Nevada corporation. SPI has agreed to assist Trimodal Group in jump-starting the program and upgrading elements for the benefit of the island communities. Trimodal has developed a comprehensive portfolio of p ... more Russian Gas Finds A New Way To Europe 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 12, 2007Russia has found a way to keep from being held hostage by its unpredictable western neighbors, Belarus and Ukraine. Gazprom, the state-controlled gas monopoly, and Italian energy giant Eni have agreed to build the South Stream pipeline, which will deliver 30 billion cubic meters of gas annually directly from Russia to the European Union. Eni will supply the pipeline with the gas it produce ... more Coal-To-Liquid Researchers Are Ahead Of National Debate 
Lexington KY (SPX) Jul 11, 2007From Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" to heated Congressional debates about federal tax incentives for new alternative fuels, the issue of coal's place in supplying America's energy and fuel needs has taken on added importance in recent months. A research institute at the University of Kentucky, though, has been exploring ways to increase the efficiency of converting coal to liquid fuel well in ... more Energy And Pollution Woes Need Urgent Attention In China 
Beijing (AFP) July 10, 2007China's Premier Wen Jiabao has reiterated that China needs to urgently face the challenges of climate change by curtailing its polluting inefficiencies, a government statement said Tuesday. "Cutting energy consumption and pollutant emissions and dealing with climate change are urgent, critically important tasks," Wen said in remarks posted on the central government's website. Wen was speak ... more |
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St Louis MO (SPX) Jul 11, 2007Boeing has been awarded a U.S. Air Force contract worth up to $2 billion between 2007 and 2018 for engineering services and the manufacturing of 242 wing sets for the Air Force's A-10 fleet. "We are pleased that the Air Force has recognized that Boeing has the skilled expertise, engineering know-how and the affordable solution to address the needs of the A-10 program," said Charles T. Robertson, ... more NetFires Conducts Successful Warhead Demonstration For Precision Attack Missile 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 11, 2007NetFires, a joint venture between Raytheon Missile Systems business and Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, successfully demonstrated the ability of its Precision Attack Missile warhead to penetrate a fortified bunker target, a key program requirement. The Precision Attack Missile is part of the Non Line-of-Sight-Launch System currently under development for the U.S. Army's Future Combat ... more Neither Peace Nor War In Afghanistan 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) July 10, 2007The NATO mission in Afghanistan is clearly experiencing a crisis, even after forecasts did not come true of developments that would have been fatal to the present-day Afghan leadership and also to ISAF, NATO's International Security Assistance Force. These forecasts warned about a Taliban revival and warlords from among the current authorities' sworn enemies consolidating in the southern a ... more Facing Realities In Iraq 
Washington (UPI) July 09, 2007A year and a half later than they should have, but still better late than never, top U.S. military commanders in Iraq are finally waking up to the political and social reality of the splintered, militia-controlled society they are dealing with. As we wrote in these columns more than 11 months ago, on Aug. 6, 2006: "Since the Feb. 22 al-Askariya bombing, the security situation has been infinitely ... more Partitioning Iraq Softly 
Washington (UPI) July 09, 2007If the U.S. troop surge in Iraq fails to pay dividends, the only thing left to do is to break the country up into three autonomous regions, some experts now say. The only way out of what is considered to be a full-fledged civil war is a "soft partition" that would split Iraq up into Kurdistan, "Shi'astan" and "Sunnistan" and to share oil-revenues, Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookin ... more
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