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Malaysia To Receive Brand-New Russian Fighters
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 19, 2007Malaysia will receive the first 12 of its order of 18 Sukhoi Su-30-MKM Flanker fighters, the most advanced versions of the Su-27 warplane, before the year is out. The Su-30-MKM embodies the best achievements of the Russian aircraft industry and has the most advanced European avionics. The Malaysian version is based on the Su-30-MKI, earmarked for India, but features different equipment and an e ... more Russia Ready To Consider Dismantling North Korea Reactors 
Beijing (RIA Novosti) Jul 19, 2007Russia is ready to discuss assisting in deactivating North Korea's nuclear facilities, a Russian envoy said Wednesday at six-party talks in China, aimed at pressing the Communist state to take further denuclearization measures. "Russian specialists are ready to discuss issues concerning the closing down of nuclear facilities in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," said Vladimir Rakhmanin ... more North Korea Willing To Disable All Nuke Programs 
Beijing (AFP) Jul 19, 2007North Korea is willing to disable all its nuclear facilities this year, a top negotiator said Wednesday, just hours after UN experts confirmed that Pyongyang had shut down its main reactor complex. The developments raised hopes that an international deal to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons programmes in exchange for aid was bearing fruit after years of on-again, off-again talk ... more Russia Rejects NATO Offer As Crisis Looms Over CFE 
Moscow (AFP) Jul 19, 2007Russia rejected a NATO offer for consultations on a key European arms treaty Wednesday, but said it would continue talks with the United States on the treaty and dismissed the idea of a new Cold War. Russia last week announced it would suspend participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) arms control treaty after months of tensions over US plans to deploy an anti-missile system in ce ... more Broad Failure In Middle East 
Washingtion DC (UPI) Jul 19, 2007U.S. President George W. Bush hopes to convene an international conference next autumn to pave the way forward for the stalled Middle East peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Well, at least with half the Palestinians, as the administration will not talk to Hamas, which it counts as a terrorist organization. This, of course complicates the task of peacemaking in the region, particula ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jul 19, 2007Many businesses along the Gulf of Mexico coast have had a difficult time obtaining wind insurance coverage since Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma hit in 2005 and have often ended up paying more than twice as much for the insurance as they did previously, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today. Gulf Coast businesses are also paying higher wind insurance deductibles while gett ... more Nature's Secrets Yield New Adhesive Material 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jul 19, 2007Scientists report they have merged two of nature's most elegant strategies for wet and dry adhesion to produce a synthetic material that one day could lead to more durable and longer-lasting bandages, patches, and surgical materials. As published in this week's issue of the journal Nature, the scientists, supported by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of th ... more The Trouble With Sarkozy 
Paris (UPI) July 18, 2007With nearly three weeks left to go of his first hundred days, the honeymoon of France's new President Nicolas Sarkozy has been more like a whirlwind. His latest coup this week resolved the decade-long dispute over of the divided leadership of the Franco-German EADS group that builds Airbus jets and runs one of Europe's top aerospace and defense groups. Last week, after a long telephone call to h ... more Bush Targets Import Safety Amid China Worries 
Washington DC (AFP) Jul 18, 2007US President George W. Bush ordered top aides Wednesday to review the safety of imports into the United States amid public outrage over a series of health scares centered on goods from China. "The American people expect their government to work tirelessly to make sure consumer products are safe," he said, after signing an executive order creating a high-level task force to assess US safeguards a ... more EERC Providing Renewable Energy Solutions For Remote Area Of Alaska 
Grand Forks ND (SPX) Jul 19, 2007The University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) conducted a feasibility study to determine the most economical solutions to provide biomass energy to the entire Chugachmiut Tribal Community in the village of Port Graham, Alaska, located on the Kenai Peninsula about 180 miles southwest of Anchorage. The village is only accessible by air or water, making traditional ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Jul 18, 2007Top US nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill said Tuesday that no major obstacles currently impeded the drive to disarm North Korea of its nuclear weapons programme after meeting the communist state's chief envoy. Hill held a series of bilateral meetings with North Korea's Kim Kye-Gwan ahead of a new round of six-nation talks, due Wednesday, on the denuclearisation drive. "I think we're all ... more Missile Deactivation Begins At Malmstrom 
Malmstrom AFB MT (AFNS) Jul 18, 2007The first Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile was removed from a launch facility near Brady, Mont., July 12 as a result of the order to begin missile deactivation activities here. The 341st Space Wing received formal direction June 29 from Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley to proceed with missile deactivation activities. Fifty Minuteman III missiles and five missile a ... more Air Force Uses New Technology In Cleanup 
San Antonio (AFNS) Jul 18, 2007Air Force officials plan to use an innovative technology to clean up contamination at a former plating shop at the former Kelly Air Force Base in Texas. Speeding up the cleanup process at former bases fulfills an Air Force-wide goal of accelerated environmental resolution, and allows Air Force officials to more quickly turn over ownership of the former base to the Port Authority of San Antonio f ... more Global Reach And Power 
Washington (UPI) Jul 18, 2007With an award expected this summer for U.S. Transportation Command's major new procurement, DTCI, it is a good time to look at the progress the American military has made outsourcing and privatizing key functions of government. From Iraq and Afghanistan to U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force maintenance depots, major logistics and technical services projects are being handled by the private sector. The ... more See Acquire And Target For Destruction 
Washington (SPX) Jul 18, 2007Armed with the latest in image intensification and other target acquisition technology, American Soldiers have an edge in missions at night or in other low visibility situations. Lt Col Jim Smith, who oversees the US Army's program that provides sensors and lasers, says that his products help soldiers to "see always, acquire first, and target once", adding that American Soldiers "own the night". ... more
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