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Libya stalling on disposal of uranium: report
London (AFP) Aug 13, 2007Libya is stalling on a 2003 pledge to dispose of its uranium, with nearly 200 barrels of the material still in its hands, The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday. Citing unnamed sources close to the situation, the newspaper said that the uranium is in the form of yellow cake ore and is being stored at a military base in the town of Sabha. It is worth about 200 million pounds (295 million ... more Military draft should be considered: US war czar 
Washington (AFP) Aug 10, 2007A top US military officer in charge of coordinating the US war effort in Iraq said Friday that it makes sense to consider a return of the draft to meet the US military's needs. Lieutenant General Douglas Lute, who serves as a White House deputy national security adviser, said the all-volunteer military is serving "exceedingly well" and the administration has not decided it needs to be replac ... more Is The Shanghai Cooperation Organization The New Warsaw Treaty Group 
Hong Kong (UPI) Aug 10, 2007The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is holding joint military exercises this week in Russia, with all six member nations participating for the first time. However, judging from the number of soldiers taking part, the significance of the maneuvers is more symbolic than practical. Less than 4,000 troops are involved in the drills dubbed Peace Mission 2007: 1,600 from China, 2,000 from Russia, 10 ... more Rice Brings Musharraf Back Into The Fold But Of What 
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 10, 2007For an entire day this week Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf appeared to have spun out of U.S. influence, deciding to fight terrorism his own way and impose a state of emergency in his country. Alarmed at this change, the Bush administration tasked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to bring him back. She wasted no time. Hours after Islamabad officially announced that Musharraf was not atte ... more US 'surge' in Iraq 'likely to fail': British lawmakers 
London (AFP) Aug 12, 2007The US "surge" of troops in Iraq is likely to fail, a British parliamentary committee said Monday as it delivered a critical report on London's foreign policy in the Middle East. "It is too early to provide a definitive assessment of the US 'surge' but it does not look likely succeed," the House of Commons Foreign Affairs committee said in a wide-ranging document. The Commons is Britain's lo ... more |
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Kabul (AFP) Aug 12, 2007A soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force was killed and several others wounded during an attack in southern Afghanistan, the force said Sunday. An Afghan soldier was also wounded in Saturday's incident, ISAF said in a statement that gave no other details. The 37-nation force does not release the nationalities of its casualties, leaving this to the home nations ... more Intelligence officers quitting British defence ministry: report 
London (AFP) Aug 12, 2007About a fifth of Britain's military intelligence officers have resigned over the past three years, The Daily Telegraph reported in an early edition of its Monday paper. Citing unnamed defence sources, the newspaper said that many of the officers leaving were choosing well-paid private security jobs instead, forcing the ministry to hand jobs to people who do not have relevant training or expe ... more Putin visits new radar station near Baltics 
Saint Petersburg (AFP) Aug 11, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday asked the country's defence chiefs to work to modernise the nation's armed forces, during a visit to a new radar station near Saint Petersburg. The Voronezh station at Lekhtusi was "a first step in a vast programme which will run until 2015," he said. "I hope that the new defence ministry chiefs will do everything possible to make sure that th ... more Boeing TEAM TSAT Demonstrates Technology Maturity 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 10, 2007TEAM TSAT, led by Boeing, has demonstrated that its Transformational Satellite Communications System Space Segment (TSAT) hardware and software can function in simulated operational environments, achieving Technology Readiness Level-6 (TRL-6) for payload, antenna, information assurance and gateway technologies. "Reaching TRL-6 is the culmination of TEAM TSAT's three-year effort and validat ... more British helicopter crash results in third death 
London (AFP) Aug 10, 2007One person injured when a Royal Air Force helicopter crashed in northern England has died, bringing the death toll from the incident to three people, the British defence ministry said Friday. Police had announced Wednesday that two people were killed and 10 injured in the accident near the Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire. A police spokesman had said that of the 12 people on the air ... more |
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London UK (SPX) Aug 13, 2007As oil becomes scarce, the world needs new transportation fuels. As new fuel options develop we need means of assessing which are most effective at replacing petroleum. So far many scientists have used a measure called 'net energy'. However, Professor Bruce Dale from Michigan State University claims, "Net energy analysis is simple and has great intuitive appeal, but it is also dead wrong and dan ... more Germany And Russia Joined At The Pipe 
Berlin (UPI) Aug 10, 2007Germany's special energy relationship with Russia threatens energy security in Europe, critics say. Others argue Europe's largest economy needs to build up strong ties with Europe's biggest energy importer. Energy security has become an increasingly important topic in European politics of the past years; domestic resources of oil and gas were scarce to begin with, and they are dwindling as consu ... more Japan to fund emission-curbing projects across Asia: report 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 12, 2007Japan plans to invest in emission-curbing projects in developing Asian nations in exchange for credits that add to its own anti-global warming effort, a press report said Sunday. The Ministry of the Environment aims to obtain 3.5 million tonnes worth of emission credits through the investment, the major Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun said. The Kyoto Protocol, a landmark pact against glob ... more Biofuels Shift Seen To Put Major Squeeze On Food Prices 
Manila (AFP) Aug 09, 2007A global shift toward renewable energy could jack up food prices by up to 80 percent as crops and farmland are diverted to producing biofuels, an international agricultural think-tank warned Thursday. Joachim von Braun, director-general of the International Food Policy Research Institute, said further crop yield improvements and increased efficiency of these alternative fuels were required if a ... more British officials say no chance of hitting renewables target: report 
London (AFP) Aug 13, 2007British officials have told government ministers that the country has no chance of meeting its commitments under European Union plans to raise the proportion of energy made from renewable sources by 2020, The Guardian reported on Monday. Citing an internal briefing paper for ministers that it had obtained, the newspaper said that officials believe that the best Britain can do is to produce n ... more
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