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Feature: U.S. works hearts, minds
Rutbah, Iraq (UPI) Nov 29, 2007 The United States is in perhaps its most difficult phase to date in the war and occupation of Iraq -- counterinsurgency and all the strategy and tactics it entails. On the one hand, it must continue to fight insurgents where it finds them. On the other, it must win the trust and cooperation of a people who are still struggling to unlearn the lesson of survival during the brutal reign of ... more North Korea to come clean on secret nuclear programme: US envoy 
Seoul (AFP) Nov 29, 2007Work on shutting down North Korea's declared nuclear plants is going well, with the communist state expected to come clean soon about a suspected secret programme, the chief US nuclear envoy said Thursday. Christopher Hill is holding consultations in South Korea before starting a three-day visit to the North next Monday to inspect progress in disabling its Yongbyon nuclear complex. Hill ... more Lockheed Martin-built Trident II D5 Missile Achieves Record 120 Successful Test Launches In A Row 
Silverdale WA (SPX) Nov 30, 2007The U.S. Navy conducted a successful test launch today of a Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) built by Lockheed Martin. The Navy launched the unarmed missile from the submerged submarine USS HENRY M JACKSON (SSBN 730) in the Pacific Ocean. The Trident II D5 missile now has achieved 120 consecutive successful test launches since 1989 - a record unmatched by any other large ballistic mi ... more Defiant Musharraf starts new term as civilian president 
Islamabad (AFP) Nov 29, 2007Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf was sworn in as president for a second term Thursday and set a defiant tone for his new civilian leadership by swatting away international calls to end emergency rule. A day after standing down from the army which brought him to power in a coup in 1999, Musharraf took the oath of office for another five years at the presidential palace in Islamabad. He called ... more Thousands Gather On The Clyde To Watch The Launch Of Diamond 
Glasgow, UK (SPX) Nov 30, 2007Diamond, the third of the Royal Navy's new Type 45 class of anti-air warfare destroyers, was successfully launched from the BAE Systems' shipyard at Govan, on the Clyde, today. The Lady Sponsor, Mrs Suzie Johns, wife of Vice Admiral Adrian Johns CBE, the Royal Navy's Second Sea Lord and Commander in Chief Naval Home Command, named the ship at the ceremony which included an aerial display from a ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Nov 29, 2007The United States and China on Thursday traded rhetorical broadsides over US actions on Taiwan and Tibet, as well as Beijing barring a US warship from a family holiday get-together in Hong Kong. Beijing insisted Washington's recent arms sales to Taiwan and support for Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama had left relations "disturbed and harmed" and linked those steps to last week's port- ... more UK Awards Lockheed Martin 4.8 Million Dollars For Desert Hawk III Unmanned Aircraft Systems 
Eagan MN (SPX) Nov 30, 2007The United Kingdom's Defence Equipment and Support Organization in the Ministry of Defense awarded Lockheed Martin a $4.8 million contract to procure additional Desert Hawk III Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Together with a $6.3 million award in April, the contracts are directed at increasing the capability of the British Army. The Desert Hawk III UAS consists of a light-weight, hand-la ... more STSS's Second Satellite Completes Thermal Vacuum Testing At Northrop Grumman 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Nov 30, 2007The second of two Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites being built by prime contractor Northrop Grumman for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing. The first STSS space vehicle completed thermal vacuum testing in May 2007. Thermal vacuum testing is conducted to confirm that the satellite will operate according to speci ... more More deaths as storms exit the Philippines 
Manila (AFP) Nov 29, 2007Storms Hagibis and Mitag have blown out of the the Philippines, the weather bureau said Thursday, as the death toll climbed to 29 and rescuers continued to battle rough seas in search of the missing. The coast guard said 12 Chinese fishermen went missing after two boats capsized Wednesday in rough seas near Pag Asa island off the country's western coast. Two Filipino airforce pilots are ... more Helium Isotopes Point To New Sources Of Geothermal Energy 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 30, 2007In a survey of the northern Basin and Range province of the western United States, geochemists Mack Kennedy of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Matthijs van Soest of Arizona State University have discovered a new tool for identifying potential geothermal energy resources. Currently, most developed geothermal energy comes from regions of volcanic activity ... more |
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Brussels (AFP) Nov 27, 2007EU nations are poised to break months of deadlock over their Galileo satellite navigation programme on Thursday, although they still face the sticky question of carving up the project's coveted contracts. Budget ministers and EU lawmakers paved the way for an agreement on Galileo's future on Friday by striking a deal on how to fund the project, removing a major obstacle. They agreed to f ... more EU antitrust regulators to probe GPS devices deal 
Brussels (AFP) Nov 28, 2007EU regulators on Wednesday opened a detailed probe of Dutch technology group TomTom's takeover of Dutch firm Tele Atlas on concerns the deal could stifle competition in the market for hand-held navigation devices. The European Commission said it would rule by mid April whether to allow the 2.9-billion-euro (4.3-billion-dollar) takeover of Tele Atlas, a leading maker of digital maps, by TomTo ... more Sea Launch Reschedules The Thuraya-3 Launch Campaign 
Long Beach CA (SPX) Nov 29, 2007Due to unusually strong ocean currents at the launch site, Sea Launch is rescheduling the launch campaign for the Thuraya-3 satellite. The team is establishing an extended schedule for the Thuraya-3 mission, as the vessels return to Sea Launch Home Port. All personnel are doing well and all systems and the spacecraft are secure. The Sea Launch team arrived at the launch site on Nov. 10 and ... more 40th Anniversary Of Australia's First Satellite 
Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Nov 29, 2007It is now 40 years since the University of Adelaide played a key role in launching Australia's first satellite. Wresat, named after the former Weapons Research Establishment (WRE), was the name of the first Australian satellite, which was launched from Woomera, South Australia, on 29 November 1967. It was a joint venture of the WRE and the University of Adelaide's Physics Department. The W ... more Ministerial Summit On Global Earth Observation System Of Systems 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 29, 2007A new global Earth observation system, that could save lives in disasters such as the recent cyclone in southern Bangladash, is being reviewed at a ministerial-level summit in Cape Town this week. Representatives of 71 member governments, the European Commission, and 46 participating organisations, including ESA, of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) meet in Cape Town 28-30 November, to asses ... more
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