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Israel's Syria strike 'not signal for Iran': parliamentary speaker
Geneva (AFP) Oct 9, 2007Israel's air strike inside Syrian territory in early September was not a message for Iran despite claims by some US conservatives, Iran's parliamentary speaker said on Tuesday. "The violation of the airspace of Syria by Israeli planes was not meant to be a signal for Iran," Hadad Alel told reporters on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the Interparliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva. " ... more Iran and IAEA discuss on nuclear questions 
Tehran (AFP) Oct 9, 2007Iran and a delegation from the UN nuclear watchdog held talks on Tuesday about Tehran's controversial uranium enrichment programme, the Isna news agency reported, but there were no details on what was discussed. "The first day of talks has ended, and negotiations will resume tomorrow," Isna said. The Iranian team was being led by Javad Vaidi, deputy to Ali Larijani, Tehran's chief nuclea ... more How To Divide Iraq 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 10, 2007The U.S. idea of settling the Iraqi problem may follow the Bosnian scenario. In late September, the U.S. Senate approved a resolution supporting the idea of dividing Iraq into three administrative and territorial entities by religion and ethnic origin. This resolution may not lead to the final partition, but may easily explode the situation in Iraq again. The resolution suggests that Iraq ... more Al-Qaeda pursuing weapons of mass destruction: US 
Washington (AFP) Oct 9, 2007Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network remains bent on getting nuclear and biological weapons to unleash apocalyptic destruction, a new White House report on national security warned Tuesday. The report, which called for redoubled anti-terror coordination at all levels of government, said Al-Qaeda remains "the most serious and dangerous manifestation" of extremist threats against the United Stat ... more North Hails Nuclear Test As South Korea Demands Role In Disabling Process 
Seoul (AFP) Oct 9, 2007A year after stunning the world with its first ever nuclear test, an unrepentant North Korea on Tuesday hailed the event as a "miracle" for the Korean people. Leader Kim Jong-Il brought "the sky of lasting peace, prosperity and hope" to his people, the ruling communist party newspaper Rodong Sinmun said without directly mentioning the test. "We cannot really forget...a shout of joy in Oc ... more |
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Thuong Village, Vietnam (AFP) Oct 9, 2007It is hard to tell where the river ends and the rice fields start. This Vietnamese village is under muddy water that reeks with the stench of dead animals. The worst floods in decades that followed last week's typhoon have left hundreds of homes submerged in the brown overflow of the Hoang Long river. Families are forced to cower on higher floors and rooftops, surviving on the little water a ... more China's top cadres meet ahead of crucial five-yearly Congress 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 9, 2007China's Communist Party chiefs met here Tuesday to finalise preparations for a crucial five-yearly gathering during which President Hu Jintao is expected to tighten his grip on power. The party's central committee of around 350 members opened a plenary session in Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency announced, ahead of the Congress of more than 2,000 top cadres that begins next Monday. ... more Small is beautiful: Incredible shrinking memory drives new IT 
Paris (AFP) Oct 9, 2007Over the past decade, hard drives have shrunk to the size of postage stamps while their storage capacity has improved fifty-fold, a feat that can be traced to two men who won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday. From MP3 players to cameras to laptops, most of the gadgets that store the digital threads from which our daily lives are increasingly woven owe their enhanced power to this ... more Steel producers search for global plan to cut CO2 emissions 
Frankfurt (AFP) Oct 9, 2007Steel producers want to present a global response to climate change and have begun by launching a vast operation to collect data at sites worldwide, they said Tuesday. Meeting in Berlin, members of the International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI) committed themselves to gathering information on carbon dioxide emissions from all steel plants in member countries. The project is the first ... more Study says French C02 target unattainable: report 
Paris (AFP) Oct 9, 2007An official commission has concluded that France cannot meet its target of slashing carbon dioxide (C02) emissions by a factor of four by 2050, the business daily La Tribune reported Tuesday. The report, to be published later this week, says that "with the strongest determination in the world, France could cut its CO2 emissions by a factor of 2.1 by 2050, even by 2.4, but certainly not by fo ... more |
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Guildford UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2007Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is to launch two new enhanced Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) satellites in the fourth quarter of 2008. Deimos-1, which was built for Deimos SL (Spain) and SSTL's UK-DMC2 will be launched onboard a Dnepr rocket from the new Kosmotras launch site in southern Ural. Both Demios-1 and UK-DMC2 will carry an enhanced version of the DMC wide area ima ... more Robots With Legs 
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Oct 09, 2007David Wettergreen is an associate research professor at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute. Wettergreen works in the institute's Field Robotics Center, designing and testing robots for deployment under harsh, inhospitable conditions. Many of the projects he has worked on were funded by NASA, as part of its process of developing robotic spacecraft to explore nearby worlds. In this ... more Taiwan to unveil new missiles at National Day parade 
Taipei (AFP) Oct 8, 2007Taiwan is to showcase for the first time two locally developed missiles in a show of strength this week aimed at warning rival China that it is capable of striking back if attacked. The island's military will unveil the supersonic Hsiung-feng 3 (Brave Wind) ship-to-ship missile and the Tien Kung 3 (Sky Bow) anti-missile system at Wednesday's National Day parade, Defence Minister Lee Tien-yu ... more Britain to cut Iraq troops to 2,500 by early 2008: PM 
London (AFP) Oct 8, 2007Britain will more than halve the number of its troops in Iraq to 2,500 by next spring, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday, in a long-expected statement. He also announced plans to help local Iraqis who have worked for British forces in the country since the 2003 US-led invasion to settle. "We plan for next spring to reduce force numbers in southern Iraq to a figure of 2,500," he tol ... more Sarkozy urges more Iran sanctions ahead of Russia visit 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 8, 2007French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for "increasing sanctions" against Iran, saying previous action had forced Tehran to be more open about its nuclear programme. Sarkozy's comments were made in an interview with the official Russian daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta, ahead of his trip to Moscow on Tuesday and Wednesday. Unlike France Russia is reluctant to impose new UN sanctions against Ir ... more
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