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Outside View: Pressure Pakistan over Khan
Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 Pressuring a weakened strategic ally by reopening old wounds carries a certain amount of risk. But in the case of Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf's current domestic political troubles provide the United States with an opportunity to put something back on the table that should never have been taken off. The United States must pressure Pakistan to deal appropriately with A.Q. Khan ... more Analysis: Musharraf may bring in another general to takeover 
Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has made his last move in the endgame he is playing with the country's politicians -- threatening to hand over the keys to another general before he quits. The threat -- conveyed to opposition politicians in London -- is conditional. If politicians accept him as the head of a new government of national consensus for the next five years, he will work ... more US, NKorea hold face-to-face nuclear talks in Geneva 
Geneva (AFP) Sept 1, 2007The United States and North Korea held the first of two days of face-to-face talks in Geneva on Saturday aimed at reaching an agreement on how to proceed with Pyongyang's denuclearisation pledge. The talks started just after 10:00 am (0800 GMT) and were expected to last for two days, the US mission in Geneva said in a statement. The US delegation had nine participants while the North Koreans ... more Nearly two dozen militants said killed in Afghanistan 
Kabul (AFP) Sept 1, 2007Ground fighting and air strikes killed almost two dozen insurgents near a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan that has seen days of heavy fighting, the US-led counterterrorism force said Saturday. Attack aircraft were called in after insurgents ambushed patrolling Afghan police and international troops in the southern province of Helmand on Friday, it said in a statement. ... more Iran reaches atomic milestone: Ahmadinejad 
Tehran (AFP) Sept 2, 2007President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday Iran had achieved a key target in its atomic drive by operating more than 3,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges in defiance of world powers. His boast came as Iran answers questions over its nuclear programme to the UN atomic agency under a plan the watchdog's chief Mohamed ElBaradei warned could be a "last chance" for the Islamic republic. ... more |
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Sydney (AFP) Sept 3, 2007US President George W. Bush is so preoccupied with Iraq he is neglecting Asia and allowing China to take a greater leadership role, a former senior US official said in remarks published Monday. "In every measure, China is making real hay right throughout Asia," Richard Armitage, Bush's former deputy secretary of state told The Australian newspaper in an interview. ... more Sharp unveils ultra-sensitive touch-screen LCD 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 31, 2007Japan's Sharp Corp, a leading producer of liquid crystal displays, on Friday unveiled a new LCD system equipped with an ultra-sensitive touch screen. In the new LCD panel, each pixel carries an optical sensor. This eliminates the need to place film over the panel, meaning better image quality than existing touch-screen designs. This also allows the screen to respond to touch in multiple ... more China launches nationwide energy saving campaign 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 1, 2007China Saturday launched a nationwide energy saving campaign, calling on its people to face the urgent task of reducing its rocketing fuel consumption and worsening pollution. Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said China had paid a heavy price for its rapid economic development in the past three decades. "Our country has taken nearly 30 years to catch up with developed countries in industrialisati ... more Analysis: Kazakhs mull nationalization? 
Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 The year 2007 has been a difficult one for Western energy companies operating abroad, as many states, including Bolivia, Russia and Venezuela, have unilaterally either rewritten or abrogated longstanding energy agreements with European and U.S. partners. Is Kazakhstan about to join the revisionist club? On Aug. 27 the Kazakh government temporarily suspended Italian Eni SpA's license to ... more Analysis: EU shields grids from Russia 
Berlin (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 The European Union is reverting to unusual measures to guarantee its energy security. According to a report, Brussels is looking to shield its oil and gas sector from unwanted acquisitions by foreign players. The protectionist measures are to be part of the planned EU energy market reform, which the European Commission with its proposals wants to jump-start Sept. 19 ... more |
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El Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2007SpaceX has successfully completed the first of three phases of review required by NASA's Safety Review Panel (SRP) to send its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). Over a series of meetings spanning four days at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the team of SpaceX engineers developing the Dragon spacecraft presented their Phase I plans for sending the cargo version ... more All Set For GSLV-F04 Take-Off On Sept 02; Countdown Starts Today 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 30, 2007The countdown for the launch of a rocket from Sriharikota, about 100 km from here, carrying India's communication satellite INSAT-4CR, will start today. "The countdown for the launch will start today afternoon," ISRO sources told PTI. The 49-metre tall rocket will be launched at 4.21 p.m. from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, they said. ... more Controlling Bandwidth In The Clouds 
San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2007If half your company's bandwidth is allocated to your mirror in New York, and it's the middle of the night there, and your sites in London and Tokyo are slammed, that New York bandwidth is going to waste. UC San Diego computer scientists have designed, implemented, and evaluated a new bandwidth management system for cloud-based applications capable of solving this problem. ... more NASA Scientist Treks To Burning Man Festival 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2007August 27 marks the beginning of this year's Burning Man festival, held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, two hours from Reno and 12 miles from the nearest town. The week-long, annual event, started in 1986, celebrates self-expression and climaxes with a massive bonfire. This year's festival features a "Green Man" theme, which focuses on the connections between nature and mankind. Central to ... more ABM Radar To Bring In The Bucks 
Moscow (UPI) Aug 30, 2007 Azerbaijan, the United States and Russia will meet in Baku in early September for consultations on the joint use of the Gabala radar. On June 7, during the G8 summit in Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited the United States to share the early-warning radar in Gabala, Azerbaijan, if it abandons its plans to deploy elements of its anti-ballistic missile system in Europe. ... more
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