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US Senator Lugar Speaks For Extending START-I Treaty
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 30, 2007Russia and the U.S. should extend the START-I Treaty, which expires in 2009, or else negative consequences will result, U.S. senator Richard Lugar said Tuesday. "The United States and Russia must extend the START Treaty's verification and transparency elements, which will expire in 2009," Lugar told an arms control round table in Moscow. Lugar said the two countries should also introduce ... more Commentary: The next war? 
Bern, Switzerland (UPI) Aug 29, 2007 After a brief interruption of his New Hampshire vacation to meet President Bush in the family compound at Kennebunkport, Maine, French President Nicolas Sarkozy came away convinced his U.S. counterpart is serious about bombing Iran's secret nuclear facilities. That's the reading as it filtered back to Europe's foreign ministries: Addressing the annual meeting of France's ambassadors to ... more Germany mulls 'Trojan' IT viruses as anti-terror measure 
Berlin (AFP) Aug 29, 2007Left-wing members of the ruling coalition have objected strongly to plans by the German interior ministry to enlist "Trojans", malicious programmes sent in electronic mail, to spy on terror suspects. According to a proposed plank of new anti-terror legislation, which was confirmed by a ministry spokesman, special software would smuggle itself into a suspect's computer disguised as a ... more Analysis: Hitting Iran where it hurts 
Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2007 Amid continuing speculation of a pending U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear facilities or possible raids targeting Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, a group of activists is asking Washington to consider "terror-free investment" -- a non-violent tool -- as a means of pressuring Iran. For years now the United States has barred U.S. companies from conducting business with Iran and imposed ... more Engineers Make Life Easier For Iraqi Army Soldiers 
Al Taqaddum, Iraq (AFNS) Aug 30, 2007Operation Iraqi Freedom has given control of the country back to its people. As more Iraqi Army units become responsible for their own areas of operation, the Marines working alongside them are doing everything in their power to set the Iraqi Army up for success. Recently, Marines from the Engineer Operations Company of Marine Wing Support Squadron 371 spent a week improving the quality ... more |
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Boston MA (SPX) Aug 29, 2007Scientists and engineers are eager to understand the secret behind bone's lightweight toughness so they can mimic it in the design of new materials, but experimental studies have revealed a number of different strength mechanisms at different scales of focus, rather than a single theory. New research from MIT appearing in the July 25 issue of Nanotechnology reveals for the first time the ... more NKorea searches for fugitives after floods: aid group 
Seoul (AFP) Aug 29, 2007North Korea has stepped up searches in border towns for people trying to flee the country after devastating floods, a South Korean aid group said Wednesday. Security officials in the communist state have been rounding up illegal travellers in a door-to-door search twice a day in border towns, Good Friends said in a report. Authorities are worried about an exodus across the China border ... more Devastated New Orleans mourns Katrina dead two years on 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 29, 2007New Orleans Wednesday mourned the huge losses inflicted by Hurricane Katrina two years ago, as US President George W. Bush sought to dispel residents' anger vowing better days lay ahead. Scores of tiny silver hand bells tinkled, as the city's prominent Mayor Ray Nagin led a poignant memorial service to the 1,500 dead across the Gulf Coast and remembered the devastation which laid waste ... more US casts doubt on global carbon market 
Vienna (AFP) Aug 29, 2007The US delegate to a United Nations conference on climate change cast doubt Wednesday about the creation of a global carbon market to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "It's unclear when and if there's going to be a global carbon market," Harlan Watson, the head of the US delegation, told a press conference in Vienna. The European Union as well as US allies such as Australia and ... more Analysis: Venezuelan energy chief fined 
Miami (UPI) Aug 29, 2007 Venezuela's chief energy official, Rafael Ramirez, was fined recently for instructing employees at the country's state-run energy firm to support President Hugo Chavez, the latest in a series of developments that some experts say illustrates the president's quest to wrest full control of the sector. Last week Venezuela's National Election Council fined Ramirez nearly $9,000 for ... more |
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Tehran (RIA Novosti) Aug 29, 2007Iran's nuclear dossier is a closed matter, the U.S. is in no position to launch a pre-emptive strike to halt the country's nuclear progress, and the Bushehr nuclear power plant will be completed as promised, the country's president said Tuesday. "I am officially declaring that the Iranian 'nuclear dossier' is, from our point of view, closed," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. He added that President ... more Guardian Commercial Airliner Anti-Missile System Achieves 6,000 Operational Hours Milestone 
Rolling Meadows IL (SPX) Aug 29, 2007Northrop Grumman has announced the achievement of more than 6,000 on-aircraft operational hours for the Guardian Counter-Man Portable Air Defense System (C-MANPADS) currently installed on seven wide-body cargo aircraft flying daily in commercial revenue service. "This milestone marks an important event for Northrop Grumman and the aviation industry. For the first time, we have been able ... more Iraqi Prime Minister Surprised Friends And Foes 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 29, 2007Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made a serious step towards national unity at a time when Paris and Washington showered him with criticism. At a news conference in Baghdad on August 26, he announced that at a joint meeting representatives of the Iraqi Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds had reached agreement on a number of issues, which were crucial for the restoration of political stability, such ... more USAF Officials Announce 2008 Force-Shaping Plans 
Washington DC (AFNS) Aug 29, 2007Air Force officials recently announced plans to meet the 2008 fiscal year end-strength of 328,600, which calls for a force reduction of about 5,400 officers and enlisted members through normal attrition, retirement or force-shaping measures. The reductions are in line with Air Force efforts to balance the force and recapitalize and modernize aging weapons systems. ... more Final Frontier: Closer To Home Than Ever Before 
Maxwell AFB AL (AFNS) Aug 29, 2007Air University officials here will host an educational symposium on the realm of space, America's dependence on the cosmos, and how military and civilian communities discuss the nation's space vulnerabilities Sept. 25 to 27 in downtown Montgomery, Ala. Headed by the National Space Studies Center at Air University, the symposium touts the motto: "Building an educational foundation for ... more
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