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France says nuclear weapons in Iran's hands 'unacceptable'
United Nations (AFP) Sept 25, 2007French President Nicolas Sarkozy piled pressure on Iran at the United Nations Tuesday, saying it would be unacceptable for the Islamic republic to get hold of nuclear weapons. Sarkozy's comments came just hours before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was due to address the world body, in a speech expected to attempt to play down fears of Tehran's nuclear ambitions. "Iran has the rig ... more Kuwait rallies to defence of Iran 
Kuwait City (AFP) Sept 25, 2007US ally Kuwait on Tuesday rallied to the defence of neighbouring Iran, which is coming under increasing international pressure to reveal more details about its controversial nuclear programme, the official KUNA news agency reported. "Iran is a friendly neighbouring state and we cannot accept seeing it in an embarrassing situation," KUNA reported Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah, the oil-rich ... more BMD Watch: Alaska 'home' ready for SBX 
Washington (UPI) Sep 25, 2007 block> hl2>The home port facilities for the giant Sea-Based X-Band Radar that is a crucial component of the U.S. Ground-based Mid-course Interceptor, or GBI, system in Alaska took a major leap forward last week./hl2> The Boeing Co. said last Thursday that the mooring system for the SBX had been completed at the giant tracking radar's home port in Alaska. "Manson Construction, a Boei ... more Professor Designs Atomic Emission Detector 
Winston-Salem NC (SPX) Sep 26, 2007Brad Jones, a professor of chemistry at Wake Forest University, is leading a team of researchers at four institutions to develop the first handheld, field instrument capable of detecting and identifying radioactive particles at the site of potential contamination. The device will enable authorities to quickly test dust, soil, water and crops in the event of a terrorist attack such as a "dirty" b ... more Kazakh leader extols benefits of renouncing nuclear arms 
United Nations (AFP) Sept 25, 2007Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said Tuesday that his country yielded tangible economic benefits from its decision to voluntarily renounce nuclear arms and urged others to follow suit. Without naming Iran or North Korea, he described as "irrational" the aspiration to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Speaking at the UN General Assembly session, he pointed to Kazakhstan's decisio ... more |
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Long Beach CA (SPX) Sep 26, 2007Fat Spaniel Technologies, the leading provider of critical information services for distributed renewable energy systems, today launched "Fat Spaniel Insight Manager," a new multi-site management portal that enables system operators to maximize performance and reduce maintenance costs across their entire portfolio of managed sites. Designed to simultaneously manage multiple commercial-scale rene ... more Galileo GPS Network Hit By More Delays 
Frankfurt (AFP) Sept 24, 2007The struggling European navigation system Galileo faces yet another delay with a three-month postponement of its second satellite launch, a press report said Monday. "The forecast launch of the second satellite in December will now be held in March 2008," a spokesman for the launch company Arianespace was quoted by the Financial Times Deutschland as saying. Problems with the Russian rock ... more India's cyber-city lives in fear of terror attacks 
Hyderabad, India (AFP) Sept 24, 2007A series of deadly bombings have left this southern showcase of India's hi-tech success haunted by fears of new attacks that could ruin Hindu-Muslim harmony and the city's growing prosperity. "Terrorists do not want development, they do not want the IT and software industry. They want to divide the country," says Bandaru Dattatreya, head of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in ... more Boeing Announces Completion Of Sea-Based Radar's Mooring System 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Sep 25, 2007Boeing announced that the Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) mooring system has been installed at SBX's homeport in Alaska, completing a key piece of infrastructure for the missile defense sensor. Manson Construction, a Boeing subcontractor, used tugs, barges and cranes to place the mooring system's eight anchors on the bottom of Kuluk Bay. Heavy machinery aboard a barge then dragged the 75-metric-ton ... more Boeing Conducts Test Of SDB I Focused Lethality Munition 
St Louis (SPX) Sep 25, 2007Boeing conducted the second successful test flight of its Small Diameter Bomb I (SDB I) Focused Lethality Munition (FLM) Sept. 14 at White Sands Missile Range, N. M., demonstrating the weapon's enhanced blast, ultra-low collateral damage warhead and pinpoint accuracy. The flight, along with an autopilot performance flight on July 11, is part of the first phase of a $27 million U.S. Air Force Joi ... more |
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Brussels (AFP) Sept 24, 2007The NATO-led security force in Afghanistan needs more helicopters, troops and equipment to deal with booby-traps in its fight against a Taliban-led insurgency, a senior military officer said Monday. "The means which is very important to give us more flexibility is helicopters," said Brigadier General Vincent Lafontaine, Chief of Plans for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force ... more Commentary: Al-Qaida on the run 
Washington (UPI) Sep 24, 2007 Osama Bin Laden "is a man on the run, from a cave, who's virtually impotent other than the tapes" he releases from time to time. That was the mid-September assessment of Frances Fragos Townsend, top adviser to President Bush on homeland security, terrorism and counter-terrorism. A former assistant commandant of the Coast Guard for intelligence, Townsend was also a counsel to the attorney gener ... more Chrysler Actively Supports The Biodiesel Industry 
Auburn Hills MI (SPX) Sep 25, 2007Chrysler LLC is teaming with the National Biodiesel Board (NBB) to promote modern, clean diesel vehicles running on clean, renewable biodiesel fuel. Chrysler is offering a special discount program to NBB members in the United States who purchase or lease a new Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge product -- with special emphasis on the company's new diesel passenger vehicles -- Dodge Ram heavy duty pickup a ... more World companies show big interest in climate, US firms lag 
New York (AFP) Sept 24, 2007The world's corporate giants are increasingly focused on climate change and many see it as an opportunity for profit but US firms tend to view it as a risk to their bottom line, a new study has said. The paper, released just ahead of Monday's UN summit on climate change, is the fifth annual report by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a not-for-profit organization that vets corporate respo ... more Analysis: New sanctions may bust Iran LNG 
Washington (UPI) Sep 24, 2007 Potential European and U.N. sanctions, and an Iranian energy policy unfavorable to foreign investment, may spell disaster as Tehran struggles to develop its liquefied natural gas potential in the massive South Pars fields. With the major powers considering a third set of U.N. sanctions against Iran over worries it is using a civilian nuclear program to cover up attempts to develop nucle ... more
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