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Washington (UPI) Nov 13, 2007 The seesaw battle between the Democratic 110th Congress and the Bush administration over whether to build an anti-ballistic missile interceptor base in Poland looks like staggering on for years to come. A key Democrat overseeing key elements of ballistic missile defense planning on Capitol Hill has come out strong against the plan. ... more Russian Carrier Plans Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Nov 14, 2007 The year 2007 can safely be described as Russia's year of combat aviation. Both in July at Le Bourget in France and in August at Zhukovsky outside Moscow, thousands of spectators held their breath as they watched stunts performed by MiG and Su planes equipped with vectored-thrust engines. It was a sight to be proud of. The planes featured were all land-based, although it is air ... more Turkey says intelligence-sharing with US underway 
Ankara (AFP) Nov 14, 2007Turkey said Wednesday that the United States had begun to share intelligence on Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, and reaffirmed its readiness for cross-border military strikes if necessary. Last week, US President George W. Bush pledged to provide Turkey with real-time intelligence to strike at bases of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) after talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Ta ... more Turkish air force chief denies cross-border air raids into Iraq 
Ankara (AFP) Nov 14, 2007Turkey's prime minister and air force chief denied Wednesday that Turkish warplanes had conducted raids in northern Iraq against separatist Kurdish rebels. "For the moment our security forces continue their operations within the limits of our borders... There was no form of cross-border operation," Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters. Air Force chief General Aydogan Babaog ... more Spy Sat Lessons Part One 
Washington (UPI) Nov 14, 2007 The problems afflicting the U.S. space reconnaissance program are not only or primarily Boeing's fault: They go to the heart of the way Congress and the U.S. government do business and the lack of an adequate hard engineering base in American high-tech industry. On Sunday, New York Times reporter Philip Taubman published an important article detailing the long road of overestimations, ... more |
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Taipei (AFP) Nov 14, 2007A retired top Taiwanese military intelligence officer has been indicted on charges of collecting and leaking classified information that was published in his book, officials said Wednesday. Pang Ta-wei, a former deputy section chief of the Military Intelligence Bureau, was indicted on September 17, said Chen Jui, spokesman for the Prosecutors' Office of the High Court. "He was indicted o ... more China's economy 40 percent smaller than estimated: analyst 
Washington (AFP) Nov 14, 2007China's economy is 40 percent smaller than most recent estimates, a US economist said Wednesday, citing data from the Asian Development Bank and guidelines from the World Bank. Albert Keidel, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former US Treasury official and World Bank economist, made the comments in a report published by the US think tank and in a com ... more Japan, China still stuck on energy sea spat 
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 14, 2007Japan and China failed to break an impasse Wednesday in a spat over lucrative gas fields in the East China Sea but agreed to keep talking amid a recent easing of tension between the countries. Asia's two largest economies, which are also among the world's biggest energy importers, held their 11th round of talks since 2004 in a bid to resolve a row over their maritime boundaries. The two ... more "Trapped rainbow" could herald new dawn for computing 
Paris (AFP) Nov 14, 2007Scientists in Britain said Wednesday they were able to slow and then stop a squirt of light in what they described as a key step towards the future of ultra-fast computing. The technique, called "trapped rainbow," would help optical data storage, with light replacing electrons to store information, according to their paper, released by the British science journal Nature. Controlling ligh ... more China's economy 40 percent smaller than estimated: analyst
Washington (AFP) Nov 15, 2007China's economy is 40 percent smaller than most recent estimates, a US economist said Wednesday, citing data from the Asian Development Bank and guidelines from the World Bank. Albert Keidel, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former US Treasury official and World Bank economist, made the comments in a report published by the US think tank and in a com ... more |
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Arlington, Va. (UPI) Nov 13, 2007 Believe it or not, the Bush administration is run by smart, hardworking people who are committed to protecting the American Dream for future generations. You don't get a top job on the Bush team unless you are highly qualified, and you don't seek a top job unless you are highly motivated. So why do public opinion polls indicate that vast swaths of the electorate doubt the administration's comp ... more Turkish warplanes bomb Iraqi villages 
Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Nov 13, 2007Turkish warplanes bombed three Iraqi villages near the border town of Zakho in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Tuesday but caused no casualties, a security official said. The bombings were carried out before dawn on villages known to be frequented by fighters of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Batoufa and Darkar districts of northern Iraq, the Kurdish official to ... more Elbit Systems To Supply UAV Systems To The Israeli Defense Forces 
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Nov 14, 2007Elbit Systems received a new UAV order for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). The order, valued at approximately $30 million, includes the development, manufacture and supply of new and improved UAV systems, as well as the upgrade of existing UAV systems, designed to enhance and expand the IDF's existing UAV platform. Development and supply is scheduled to take place over a period that exceeds th ... more Pakistan nukes under control: Musharraf 
Washington (AFP) Nov 13, 2007Pakistan's nuclear weapons are under "total custodial controls," President Pervez Musharraf told Fox News radio Tuesday, moving to calm concerns over the arms amid major political turmoil in his country. "They are under total custodial controls," Musharraf told the network, citing security measures in place since 2000, according to a transcript of the interview. "We created a strategic p ... more US informs Nigeria of plan to set up military command in Africa 
Abuja (AFP) Nov 13, 2007US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte Tuesday outlined his country's plan to set up AFRICOM, a military command in Africa, saying it was in line with America's defence policy. "It's not unusual for the US to have regional military commands. We have regional military commands in various parts of the world," Negroponte told reporters at the end of his visit to Nigeria. The US govern ... more
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