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A Good Year For ABM Part Two
Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2007 The U.S. ballistic missile program was overjoyed by a series of exceptionally successful tests across a wide spectrum of systems in 2007. The number and frequency of the successes, especially in the Aegis/Standard Missile-3 and Theater High Altitude Area Defense programs, suggested that these technologies are now firmly in the category of mature technologies, racking up an impressive tr ... more Outside View: Russia's ABM shield 
Moscow (UPI) Dec 27, 2007 "The issue of confrontation with Russia, especially direct confrontation, is still, unfortunately, kept alive by our Pentagon partners," General of the Army Yuri Baluyevsky, Russia's Chief of the General Staff, said in a mid-December interview with RIA Novosti. It all revolves around American plans to deploy a missile defense system, he said, "which Russia regards as a global strategic ... more Russian delegation to discuss missile defence in Warsaw: ministry 
Warsaw (AFP) Dec 28, 2007Controversial US plans to install parts of a missile shield in Poland will top the agenda when a Russian delegation visits Warsaw in mid-January, the Polish foreign ministry said Friday. "The delegation will arrive in mid-January," Piotr Paszkowski, Poland's foreign ministry spokesman, told AFP. A report in the Friday edition of Poland's leading Gazeta Wyborcza daily pegged January 14 a ... more US concerned by Russian sale of air defense systems to Iran 
Crawford, Texas (AFP) Dec 26, 2007The White House expressed concern Wednesday over Iran's announcement that Russia would supply S-300 air missile defense systems to the Islamic republic. "We have ongoing concerns about the prospective sale of such weapons to Iran and other countries of concern," Scott Stanzel, a White House spokesman, said from Crawford, Texas, where President George W. Bush was spending the yearend holiday ... more Reporter's dream forced Britain to admit nuclear test: document 
London (AFP) Dec 28, 2007The British government was forced to admit it had sanctioned a nuclear weapons test in 1974 after a journalist dreamed one had taken place and wrote an article, newly released documents showed Friday. Then prime minister Harold Wilson strived to keep secret the test in the Nevada desert in the United States that May, but his efforts were foiled by the unorthodox reporting methods of Daily Ex ... more |
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Islamabad (AFP) Dec 28, 2007Pakistan faces the worst crisis in its modern history after the killing of Benazir Bhutto, an attack aimed at destabilising the nuclear-armed Islamic nation and wrecking planned elections, analysts said. The country is on the edge of mass unrest following Bhutto's assassination on Thursday, with more than 20 people dying in riots and political violence sparked by her death in a gun and suici ... more Commentary: Pakistani suspects galore 
Washington (UPI) Dec 27, 2007 Suspects in the assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto number in the tens of thousands. Some 800 Pakistanis have been killed by suicide bombers in the past year. Bhutto had a close brush with death Oct. 18, a few hours after returning from eight years of self-imposed exile in Dubai and London. The suicide bomber killed more than 140 people and injured 350, some a few feet from where she wa ... more NATO hopes Pakistan army will continue to cooperate: official 
Brussels (AFP) Dec 28, 2007NATO hopes the Pakistani military will continue to help combat insurgents near the Afghan border despite the killing of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, an alliance official said Friday. The official underscored that while security in Pakistan is "very volatile" in the wake of Bhutto's death in a suicide attack Thursday, NATO does not intend to change its military plan in Afghanistan despit ... more Commentary: Murder Inc. 
Washington (UPI) Dec 27, 2007 (Editor's note: The following piece was published Oct. 25, soon after Benazir Bhutto returned home to Pakistan and escaped an assassination attempt against her. Prior to traveling to Pakistan, she told UPI Editor at Large Arnaud de Borchgrave in an e-mail message that she had received intelligence that three men -- Baitul Masood, an Afghan, Hamza Bin Laden, an Arab, and a Red Mosque militant - ... more Analysis: Mixed legacy for Bhutto 
Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2007 Benazir Bhutto embodied the best and worst of South Asian politics. She was a charismatic leader who inspired and gave hope to millions of her people, only to disappointment them with the difficult-to-shake stench of corruption; the first woman leader in a Muslim country, she was emblematic of the region's proclivity toward dynastic politics. Bhutto was buried Friday, a day after she wa ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Dec 27, 2007 The reported killing of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto shows the continued strength of Islamists and paralyzes Pakistan's political system, at least in the short term. "Her killing threatens Pakistan's existence because she was very popular, especially in the Sindh region," Anwar Iqbal, Washington correspondent for Pakistan's Dawn newspaper, told United Press Internation ... more Thompson Files: A good year for Bush 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Dec 27, 2007 When Operation Desert Storm ended with a crushing defeat of Iraqi forces in early 1991, many pundits opined that U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush was assured of re-election. Military success had made the president so popular that it was hard to see what could derail his re-election bid. But Bush's popularity declined rapidly after Desert Storm, and in 1992 he lost the White House to B ... more Natural catastrophes will grow with climate change: re-insurer 
Frankfurt (AFP) Dec 27, 2007Natural catastrophes in 2007 were more frequent and costlier than a year earlier and climate change will make them more expensive still, the world's second-biggest re-insurer, Munich Re, said Thursday. There were 950 natural catastrophes in 2007 compared with 850 in 2006, the highest number since the group started compiling its closely watched annual report in 1974. The total cost of dis ... more Indonesian court clears energy company over mud volcano 
Jakarta (AFP) Dec 27, 2007An Indonesian court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit brought by environmentalists against an energy company alleged to have caused a mud volcano that has displaced thousands in East Java province. The South Jakarta district court ruled that the mudflow in Sidoarjo district was a "natural disaster", and not caused by gas drilling by Lapindo Brantas as alleged by Friends of the Earth Indonesia. ... more Search intensifies for Indonesian landslide victims 
Tawangmangu, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 28, 2007Rescue workers stepped up a hunt Friday for victims of landslides and floods that claimed scores of lives on Indonesia's Java island and displaced thousands, an official said. The landslides smashed through homes, burying families alive, in the early hours of Wednesday after monsoon rains lashed Central and East Java provinces this week and also triggered devastating floods. More than 1, ... more
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