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US, China to reward North Korea multi-million dollar fuel aid
Washington (AFP) Sept 13, 2007The United States and China are preparing to provide tens of millions of dollars in fuel aid to North Korea as it moves to declare and disable its nuclear weapons program, US officials said Thursday. China is expected to send 50,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil to its hardline communist neighbor this month to be followed by a similar US shipment, an administration official said, speaking on ... more SKorea, US start consulting on NKorea peace pact 
Seoul (AFP) Sept 13, 2007South Korea and the United States have already begun talks about a possible agreement with North Korea formally ending the 1950-53 war on the peninsula, the US ambassador to Seoul said Thursday. "I think that we have already begun consultations with the South Korean government in order to develop a common approach to these talks," ambassador Alexander Vershbow told a forum. He said it ... more North Korea helping Syria build nuclear facility: report 
Washington (AFP) Sept 13, 2007North Korea may be helping Syria build some kind of nuclear facility, The Washington Post reported Thursday citing unnamed intelligence sources. Israeli secret service relayed the information to the US government, which the Post described as "dramatic. The new information, particularly images received in the past 30 days, has been restricted to a few senior officials under the instruct ... more Iran minister in China for nuclear talks 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 13, 2007Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour Mohammadi arrived in Beijing on Thursday for two days of talks that he said would focus on the debate over his nation's nuclear programme. "I will talk about the most important international and regional questions, Iran's nuclear case and also issues relating to the Middle East," he told Iranian state media after arriving in the Chinese capital. ... more Peroxide bomb-detection firm growing 
Haifa, Israel (UPI) Sep 13, 2007 An Israeli company that makes advanced explosives detectors has named a Turkish distributor, adding to a growing list of customers that includes U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus armies, police departments and security organizations in England, Australia and India. Acro Security Technologies' product is the Peroxide Explosives Tester. Peroxide-based explosives are ... more |
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New York (AFP) Sept 13, 2007Microsoft emerged largely unscathed from a long antitrust ordeal in the United States, as it successfully overturned on appeal a judge's ruling that would have broken up the world's biggest software firm. Yet Microsoft has had to pay hefty damages to rivals and remains under court supervision. One issue before the court is a complaint from rival Google, which ironically is seen by some ... more OPEC Slows Down Global Economic Growth 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 14, 2007On September 11, the Conference of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) met in Vienna, Austria, to discuss oil-production quotas. Most OPEC countries said the cartel should not produce more than 25.8 million barrels of oil per day, citing slackened projections for global and U.S. economic growth. Although OPEC said a year ago that a barrel of oil should cost $60, it is ... more Yunus calls for lifestyle 'traffic rule' to fight warming 
Seoul (AFP) Sept 13, 2007The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus called Thursday for a worldwide lifestyle change, saying global warming is "a matter of life and death" for low-lying nations like his own country Bangladesh. In a keynote speech to a symposium on climate change, Yunus suggested a "traffic rule" under which products bear red, yellow or green markings to indicate the extent to which they come ... more China's industrial output eases, but curbs to stay 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 13, 2007China's industrial output eased during August in a sign that efforts to curb growth were kicking in, official data showed Thursday, but the government was expected to continue its tightening policies. Production at plants and factories across China was up 17.5 percent last month from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said. While impressive by most nations' standards, in ... more NASA Researchers Extend Life Of Hot Temperature Electronic Chip 
Cleveland OH (SPX) Sep 14, 2007NASA researchers have designed and built a new circuit chip that can take the heat like never before. In the past, integrated circuit chips could not withstand more than a few hours of high temperatures before degrading or failing. This chip exceeded 1,700 hours of continuous operation at 500 degrees Celsius - a breakthrough that represents a 100-fold increase in what has previously been ... more |
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London (AFP) Sept 12, 2007Iran is not looking to develop nuclear weapons, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Britain's Channel 4 News Wednesday amid continued global concern at its refusal to halt uranium enrichment. In a live interview from the grounds of the presidential palace in Tehran, Ahmadinejad told the broadcaster through a translator: "We don't want a bomb. We are against bombs, actually... ... more Iran warns against 'political interference' in UN inspections 
Vienna (AFP) Sept 12, 2007Iran said Wednesday that new UN sanctions would torpedo renewed nuclear inspections but the United States and European powers said there must be sanctions if Tehran presses on with uranium enrichment. In Washington, the US State Department said the six major countries working to resolve the controversy surrounding Iran's nuclear program will discuss a draft UN sanctions text September 21 in ... more Israel believes N. Korea selling nuke material to Syria: report 
Washington (AFP) Sept 12, 2007Israel recently carried out reconnaissance flights over Syria, taking pictures of possible nuclear installations that Israeli officials believed might have been supplied with material from North Korea, The New York Times reported Thursday. A US administration official said Israeli officials believed that North Korea might be unloading some of its nuclear material on Syria, the Times ... more Outside View: Upgrading Gabala 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 12, 2007 On Sept. 15, Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, will host consultations involving Russian, U.S. and Azerbaijani diplomats and military experts, who will discuss the possible use of Russia's Daryal early-warning radar in Gabala, Azerbaijan, for monitoring the Iranian missile program. Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush, who met at the Asia-Pacific Economic ... more Analysis: India's defense sector 
Washington (UPI) Sep 12, 2007 Sweden's BAe Systems SWS Defense signed an agreement with India's Ordnance Factories Board to upgrade the country's air-defense guns. The Indian Express newspaper reported Tuesday that the upgrade will be the second for the 40mm L-70 guns, which India introduced in the early 1960s. India's ordnance factories make the guns under ... more
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