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BMD Watch: S. Korea plans BMD exercises
Washington (UPI) Nov 6, 2007 block> hl2>South Korea's navy is going to carry out regular ballistic missile defense tracking exercises in anticipation of the dangers the country faces from North Korean missiles such as the Scud and Rodong, the Seoul newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported Friday./hl2> The Chosun Ilbo cited a South Korean military official as saying that the South Korean navy would put on its training courses exe ... more Walker's World: Franco-Pak-Turk connection 
Washington (UPI) Nov 7, 2007 Three big international issues have dominated U.S. President George Bush's agenda this week. The first was the crisis in Pakistan after Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule Saturday. The second and third were his meetings with his guests French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan. All three are intimately connected, though U.S. foreign policy has ... more Outside View: Pakistan army rule or chaos 
Moscow (UPI) Nov 8, 2007 Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan on Saturday in an attempt to stop his opponents, who actually made him face a choice between dictatorship or a weak, mock democracy fraught with chaos. Musharraf was completely honest in his address to the nation when he said, "A threat to democracy will grow unless immediate preventive measures are tak ... more BMD Focus: SM-3s are 'mature' 
Washington (UPI) Nov 8, 2007 By any standards, the Aegis Weapons System and its Raytheon Standard Missile 3s that carried out outstandingly successful double exoatmospheric kills off Kauai in the Pacific Ocean Tuesday is a mature ballistic missile defense technology. Lockheed Martin noted in a statement that the Aegis Weapon System "is currently deployed on 83 ships around the globe with more than 20 additional shi ... more MoU Signed For Australia-US Joint Military Communications Ground Station 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 09, 2007The Australian Department of Defence and the US Navy have now signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which sets out the governing arrangements for a joint military communications ground station near Geraldton, Western Australia. The joint ground station will support the US Navy's Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), which is a satellite-based mobile phone network designed to support US and ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Nov 8, 2007 Iraq and President Bush's war on terrorism -- and Washington's inability to focus on more than one major foreign crisis at a time -- have overshadowed the geographic nexus of Islamist extremism. Afghanistan, where suicide bombers are now striking throughout the country; the Afghan-Pakistan border, where Taliban and al-Qaida have reconstituted their strongholds with virtual impunity; and a chao ... more Analysis: Long-run wins for green Olympics 
Washington (UPI) Nov 7, 2007 Beijing's efforts to meet clean-air standards in time for the 2008 Olympics are drawing increased skepticism as the August deadline approaches. Worst-case scenarios depict marathoners coughing their way through smog to the finish line, prompting the International Olympic Committee to suggest that some competitions may be delayed due to pollution. Yet even if Beijing fails to meet Olympic expec ... more Once A Brownfield, Now A Productive Site 
Syracuse NY (SPX) Nov 09, 2007The Solvay Settling Basins, the scene of years of industrial pollution on the shores of Syracuse's Onondaga Lake, is the setting for a novel approach to restoring brownfield sites for beneficial use. Instead of capping them with clay and plastic, fencing them, and posting "Keep Out" signs, a partnership of engineers, scientists and new corporate owners has taken a different tack on a portion of ... more Energy From Hot Rocks 
Davis CA (SPX) Nov 09, 2007Two UC Davis geologists are taking part in the Iceland Deep Drilling Project, an international effort to learn more about the potential of geothermal energy, or extracting heat from rocks. Professors Peter Schiffman and Robert Zierenberg are working with Wilfred Elders, professor emeritus at UC Riverside, Dennis Bird at Stanford University and Mark Reed at the University of Oregon to study the c ... more Boeing Projects 290 Billion Dollar Southeast Asia Market For New Commercial Airplanes 
Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) Nov 09, 2007Boeing forecasts that Southeast Asia airlines will need 1,930 airplanes worth $290 billion over the next 20 years. Strong demand for new airplanes will lead to a world fleet with significantly improved environmental performance, according to The Boeing Company's updated annual forecast for the commercial airplane market. The complete forecast, known as the Boeing Current Market Outlook, is avail ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Nov 6, 2007 The protest sign was plain enough, black ink on white poster board. But the message Jamel Numan was carrying amidst 200 of America's Iraqi Kurds rallying outside the White House Monday was both simply blunt and highlighted the overlooked complexity of Turkey's beef with the Kurdistan Workers' Party guerrillas: "Is this really about PKK? Or is this about Kirkuk?" Numan, a 53-year-old now ... more China targets space station in 2020: report 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 7, 2007China is aiming to place a 20-tonne space station into orbit around Earth in 2020, state media reported Wednesday, in the latest indication of Beijing's lofty space ambitions. China's space ambitions have attracted huge attention, notably since 2003 when it sent a man into space, only the third country to accomplish that feat after the United States and the former Soviet Union. The timet ... more Arianespace's 5th Ariane 5 Mission Is Cleared For November 9 Liftoff 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Nov 08, 2007Arianespace's fifth dual-payload Ariane 5 mission of 2007 has been given the green light for liftoff on Friday, November 9, following today's launch readiness review at the Spaceport in French Guiana. The review - which is conducted prior to every Ariane mission - validated the readiness of the Ariane 5, its Skynet 5B and Star One C1 satellite passengers, the infrastructure at Europe's Spaceport ... more Fujifilm Unveils GPS-Based Data Tape Tracker 
Valhalla NY (SPX) Nov 08, 2007Fujifilm today announced the Fujifilm Tape Tracker, a unique, high performance data asset management solution that improves the security and shipping of data tape media. Designed to fit inside a standard tape media case, the Fujifilm Tape Tracker combines leading GPS technology and a web-based application to provide CIOs and data managers with location and tracking information in real time. ... more Fleet Management Solutions Launches GPS and Two-Way Satellite Asset Tracking Services Into 50th Country 
San Luis Obispo CA (SPX) Nov 08, 2007Fleet Management Solutions announced that it has deployed systems into Australia, making that the 50th country where the company's GPS and all-satellite asset tracking services are in operation today. FMS is one of the few solutions in the market that allows a fleet manager to view, track and manage assets in a single system whether they are in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, the Libyan dessert or the Aust ... more
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