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Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2007The United States will address the threat posed by North Korea's missiles once the Stalinist state disbands its nuclear weapons program, a State Department official said Friday. At present, the United States together with China, Russia, South Korea and Japan are holding talks with North Korea aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program. Pyongyang has shut down its key Yongbyon nuclear ... more Pakistan test fires new air-launched cruise missile 
Islamabad (AFP) Aug 25, 2007Pakistan on Saturday successfully test fired a new air-launched cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons, the military said in a statement. The locally developed Ra'ad (Hatf-8) missile -- Ra'ad means thunder in Arabic -- has a range of 350 kilometres (217 miles) and uses stealth technology, it said. The missile "has been designed exclusively for launch from a variety of ... more Progress On The Hornet Capability Upgrade 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 27, 2007An important milestone has been achieved with the recent completion of the first centre barrel replacement for Australia's F/A- 18 Hornets. The centre barrel replacement program will allow the life of the Australian Hornet fleet to be extended to 2018 and potentially beyond. The F/A -18 Hornet is a key element of the air combat capability employed in the defence of Australia. Other users ... more Home Station Warriors Accomplish Mission In Absence Of Deployed Teammates 
Patrick AFB FL (SPX) Aug 27, 2007Patrick AFB FL (SPX) Aug 27, 2007 Many might believe that a Space Launch wing might not be actively engaged in deploying Airmen for America's Global War on Terror, but such is not the case for the 45th Space Wing. With more than 150 troops deployed in support of the war, the 45th SW is not only provided highly-trained Airmen in theater, but is proving its capability and excellence in ... more Boeing Awarded US Air Force Contract For Combat Survivor Evader Locator Radios 
St Louis MO (SPX) Aug 27, 2007Boeing has been awarded a $107 million U.S. Air Force contract for an additional 15,452 Combat Survivor Evader Locator (CSEL) radios and supporting equipment. The Air Force's third full-rate production CSEL order includes radio set and adapter spares, rechargeable batteries and battery adapters. The contract calls for delivery of all components by August 2009. To date, Boeing's Anaheim ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Aug 27, 2007The world is a very different place out beyond the horizon. Even as you read this, there are some 40,000 large cargo ships plying the world's waterways and oceans, not to mention innumerable smaller merchant craft, all pulling in and out of ports, loading, unloading, changing out crews and cargos, and steaming from one location to the next. In what can be a very murky world of shadowy ... more China oil giants reject pollution insurance scheme 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 24, 2007China's two leading oil producers have snubbed a new policy forcing companies to buy pollution insurance, claiming insurers cannot afford the compensation, state media said Friday. China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and China Petroleum and Chemicals Corporation (Sinopec) said that large chemical firms should not be forced to buy the insurance, according to the China.com.cn website. ... more Offshore platform tests bird-friendly lighting 
The Hague (AFP) Aug 24, 2007Dutch Petrol company NAM is testing new lighting by electronics giant Philips to improve safety for migratory birds who can get disoriented by brightly-lit offshore platforms, the companies said Friday. They said the new green-hued lighting on the platform "less distracts birds during their migration across the North Sea". Some 60 million birds cross the North Sea on their way to warmer ... more Photon-Transistors For The Supercomputers Of The Future 
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Aug 27, 2007Scientist from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen and from Harvard University have worked out a new theory which describe how the necessary transistors for the quantum computers of the future may be created. The research has just been published in the scientific journal Nature Physics. Researchers dream of quantum computers. Incredibly fast super computers which can ... more Carnegie Mellon Researchers Look At Fossil Fuel Impacts 
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Aug 27, 2007A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers report that the choices U.S. officials make today could limit how the nation's future energy needs are met and could cost consumers billions in idle power plants and associated infrastructure systems. In the upcoming Sept. 1 edition of the journal Environmental Science and Technology, Carnegie Mellon researchers Paulina Jaramillo, W. Michael ... more |
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Amsterdam, Holland (SPX) Aug 24, 2007Researchers in The Netherlands are developing a radar system that might one day see through solid earth and could be used to clear conflict zones of landmines, safely and at low cost. Writing in Inderscience's Journal of Design Research, the team explains how the new technology, with further industrial development, could eventually make vast tracts of land around the globe safe once more. ... more Death toll mounts as floods, heat wave batter US 
Chicago (AFP) Aug 23, 2007Unrelenting storms and floods have forced thousands of people from their homes, while other states have wilted in a record-breaking heatwave with the death toll from the extreme weather hitting the US rising to almost 50 Thursday. Mudslides and murky floodwaters hampered rescue efforts in the central and southern states of Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin after a week ... more Dean's death toll rises with new deaths in Mexico 
Puebla (AFP) Aug 23, 2007A couple and their two children were killed in central Mexico Thursday by a landslide caused by driving rains blamed on the remnants of hurricane Dean, raising to at least 25 the death toll from the storm's rampage. The four were killed when a chunk of mountainside buried the path on which they were walking in Xochitlaxco, according to Puebla state Governor Mario Marin. ... more Wave of refugees quits Peru quake ruins 
Pisco, Peru (AFP) Aug 22, 2007The giant quake that wrecked this Pacific coastal town last week has set off a wave of refugees, driving up to 40 percent of its people to quit their ruined homes and move away, the Peruvian government said Wednesday. "Between 30 and 40 percent of the inhabitants have been forced to leave" Pisco, which formerly had a population of 130,000 people, Social Development and Women's Affairs ... more US Asks Austria To Shed Cold War Thinking As Czechs Eye Intel Deal 
Washington (AFP) Aug 23, 2007The United States on Thursday urged Austria to move beyond "Cold War thinking" after Vienna charged that Washington's plans to deploy a missile defense shield in Central Europe against Russia's wishes were a "provocation." "We view the Cold War as being over. Such comments are not helpful and we now face a new strategic environment that requires us to move beyond Cold War thinking," ... more
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