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OSCE presidency urges Russia to reconsider arms treaty move
Madrid (AFP) Nov 30, 2007The Spanish presidency of Europe's security watchdog, the OSCE, on Friday called on Russia to reconsider its decision to suspend adherence to a Cold War treaty limiting military forces in Europe. "The presidency is making an appeal to Russia to reconsider its decision to suspend the application of the CFE treaty from December 12," Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said at the e ... more Iran defiant after nuclear talks 'disaster' 
Tehran (AFP) Dec 2, 2007Iran on Sunday remained defiant in the standoff over its nuclear programme after the latest talks with the European Union ended in failure and world powers agreed to step up moves for further sanctions. Foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said more UN Security Council sanctions would not deter Iran from pressing ahead with its nuclear drive, which the United States alleges is ai ... more Euro Thaw Not What It Seems 
Moscow (UPI) Nov 30, 2007Against the backdrop of the warm welcome bestowed by President Bush upon German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy during their recent U.S. visits, American pundits have been celebrating what they describe as a thaw in relations with the two European allies. Both Merkel and Sarkozy have been contrasted with their predecessors, Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder ... more Iranian Missile Bluster 
Moscow (UPI) Nov. 29, 2007Shortly before the recent international conference on the Middle East in Annapolis, Md., Iran announced the creation of a new ballistic missile, the Ashura. It also timed with the conference the official commissioning of its first domestically built destroyer, the Jamaran, and its first domestically built Ghadir class submarine. The Iranian military claims that the submarine can easily eva ... more Outside View: Iran war dangers 
Moscow (UPI) Nov 30, 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy recently said in Washington that the Iranian nuclear problem could be solved through U.N. and EU sanctions, but hastened to add a reservation about the "readiness for a dialogue with Tehran." In the opinion of the French president, a nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable, but access to the "peaceful atom" is open to everyone, including Iran. This placing of accents ... more |
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Seoul, Korea (UPI) Nov 30, 2007North and South Korea have a long way to go to end military tensions across their heavily fortified border despite progress on nuclear disarmament in the communist country. The two Koreas ended three days of defense ministers' talks Thursday with no agreement on how to reduce tensions around their poorly marked western sea border, the scene of bloody naval skirmishes in 1999 and 2002. Thes ... more Secretary Sees First Afterburning Engine Test With Synthetic Fuel 
Arnold AFB TN (SPX) Dec 03, 2007The secretary of the Air Force viewed the first ground testing of the General Electric F101 engine using a 50-50 mix of Fischer-Tropsch and JP-8 jet fuels Nov. 27 at Arnold Air Force Base. Secretary Michael W. Wynne witnessed the first series to qualify a high-performance, afterburning engine with FT fuel for a combat aircraft at the Arnold Engineering Development Center. The Air Force's s ... more New X-ray Technique Targets Terrorists And Tumors 
Manchester UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2007Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a new x-ray technique that could be used to detect hidden explosives, drugs and human cancers more effectively. Professor Robert Cernik and colleagues from The School of Materials have built a prototype colour 3D X-ray system that allows material at each point of an image to be clearly identified. The innovative work is reported in ... more Britain's navy 'would struggle to fight a major war': report 
London (AFP) Dec 1, 2007Britain's Royal Navy would struggle to fight a major war because of years of under-funding and cut-backs, according to a defence ministry study leaked to the Sunday Telegraph. The weekly newspaper said the report was ordered by Defence Secretary Des Browne to counter claims from opposition political parties and the media about a lack of resources in Britain's military. But the study conc ... more Military Must Understand And Master Change 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 03, 2007The U.S. military needs to understand change and the pace of change to succeed in the future, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told students at the Army War College earlier this week. "Some of the change is happening so quickly we have no idea how (it) will end up," Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen told the students, at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., on Nov. 28. The admiral used two examples ... more |
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Geneva (AFP) Nov 30, 2007Solar panels, wind turbines and other "green" goods and services should face fewer tariffs and other trade barriers, the United States and European Union proposed at the World Trade Organisation on Friday. Washington and Brussels jointly proposed that all 151 members of the WTO cut tariffs on at least 43 types of environmentally-friendly goods and services in order to boost their use worldwi ... more Moscow Finds Relief As Gas Prices Rise Only 30 Percent 
Moscow (UPI) Nov 30, 2007When Turkmenistan announced last week it would raise the gas price for Gazprom by 30 percent, the Russian energy giant actually sighed with relief. It had long expected Ashgabat to raise the prices, and $130 per 1,000 cubic meters is a moderate price for today, considerably lower than the rumored $150. In the end, the news is one more proof that Russia's increase of gas prices for Ukraine is jus ... more China's largest-ever coal-fired power plant starts operation: report 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 30, 2007China's largest coal-fired power plant, a 2.1-billion-dollar complex supplying the energy-hungry east coast, has entered into operation, state media reported Friday. The four 1,000-megawatt generating units that make up the plant are located in east China's Zhejiang province and operated by China Huaneng Group, one of the nation's top energy producers, the Xinhua news agency said. The fa ... more EU industries merit CO2 'special treatment': official 
Brussels (AFP) Nov 30, 2007Europe's energy-guzzling core industries deserve special treatment over their carbon dioxide emissions to protect their competitiveness, EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen said Friday. "There is consensus everywhere that energy-intensive industries in the EU need special treatment," opined Verheugen, presenting the conclusions of an industrial-NGO working group on adapting industry t ... more Africa urged to avoid morning-after oil hangover 
Johannesburg (AFP) Dec 2, 2007Oil-rich countries in Africa must resist the temptation to splurge their revenue from black gold if they want to avoid a hangover when supplies run dry, experts said at a conference in South Africa. Oil has all too often proved a curse to Africa, greasing the palms of foreign firms and corrupt leaders, and while many countries are now improving the way they manage the resource, they also nee ... more
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