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Pakistan, India swap nuclear lists
Islamabad (AFP) Jan 1, 2008Pakistan and India on Tuesday exchanged lists of their nuclear sites under an agreement between the South Asian rivals to swap such information annually on New Year's Day, the foreign ministry said. The information was exchanged under a 1988 agreement on the prohibition of attacks on each other's nuclear installations, a ministry statement said. Pakistan has sparked international concern ... more Iran's top nuclear negotiator reshuffles team 
Tehran (AFP) Jan 1, 2008Top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili has made three key changes at the Iranian National Security Council, replacing figures seen as close to his predecessor Ali Larijani, media reported on Tuesday. Jalili, a faithful ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was named secretary of the council in October when Larijani resigned after falling out with the president. According to a decree issued ... more NKorea calls for stronger military, economy in 2008 
Seoul (AFP) Jan 1, 2008North Korea vowed Tuesday in a New Year policy message to strengthen its military and its economy in 2008 but made no mention of its failure to meet a year-end denuclearisation deadline. The hardline communist state said it was committed to world peace but urged the United States to drop its "hostile" policy -- a precondition it often cites for scrapping its nuclear weapons programme. A ... more Walker's World: A non-boring 2008 
Washington (UPI) Dec 31, 2007 Americans may be forgiven for thinking that this new year will be dominated by one of the most intriguing and hard-fought presidential elections since the watersheds of 1968 (which brought Richard Nixon, the rapprochement with China and the great inflation) and 1980 (which brought Ronald Reagan's revolution and the endgame of the Cold War). The bizarre and ever-longer process by which t ... more Atlantic Eye: Pakistan's drop to the abyss 
Malmo, Sweden (UPI) Dec 31, 2007 "Musharraf will bring us to the brink," Pakistan's Ambassador Asif Ezdi said to me privately in Berlin in December 2002. I looked doubtfully at Ezdi. It was a year after Sept. 11; Musharraf was an ally of the United States. I did not recognize how prescient Ezdi's words would be. Five years ago I hosted a good-bye dinner in Berlin's venerable Brandenburger Hof for the dean of the Diplo ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) Dec 31, 2007North Korea Monday missed a key deadline to disable its atomic plants and declare all its nuclear programmes, triggering US warnings of a fallout for failing to comply with a landmark disarmament pact. Pyongyang was supposed to have completed the disablement of its nuclear plants and handed over its declaration by December 31 in return for one million tons of fuel oil or equivalent energy ai ... more Defense Focus: F-15s' old-age crisis 
Washington (UPI) Dec 31, 2007 The crisis afflicting the U.S. Air Force's F-15 domestic defense fleet is far wider, more serious and more deeply rooted than the American public seems to realize. It is rooted in more than 15 years of systematic neglect of U.S. air power by Republicans and Democrats alike. The U.S. Air Force moved quickly to pull some 450 old McDonnell-Douglas F-15 fighter aircraft after one of them cr ... more Analysis: Military slew Bhutto -- sources 
Washington (UPI) Dec 31, 2007 Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on orders of lower- and middle-level officers of the Pakistani army and air force, according to various intelligence sources, including members of India's counterintelligence service. According to a source who asked to remain unnamed, members of the Pakistani armed forces involved in Thursday's killing of the former prime minister and leader of the opposi ... more China to see sixth year of double-digit growth in 2008: report 
Shanghai (AFP) Jan 2, 2008China's economy is likely to see its sixth consecutive year of double-digit growth in 2008, with inflation remaining near 10-year highs, state media said Wednesday, citing an influential think tank. The gross domestic product is expected to grow 10.8 percent in 2008, compared with estimated growth of 11.5 percent last year, the State Information Centre said in a report published in the Shang ... more Eager new officials put China's economic control measures at risk: report 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 2, 2008China's efforts to curb its red-hot economy are under threat from a batch of eager new leaders at the regional level keen to splash out on investment projects, state media said Wednesday. The central government has just appointed top officials in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Tianjin as a prelude to more local government reshuffles expected in the first quarter, the C ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 30, 2007The US government Sunday said there was still time for North Korea to come clean on its nuclear program as an end-of-year deadline approached. Failing full disclosure from the Stalinist state, the United States will look to unspecified other options, State Department spokesman Rob McInturff said. "Right up until the deadline we are still hoping to see full disclosure from the North Korea ... more Pakistan can survive latest chaos and bloodshed: analysts
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 30, 2007Born from chaos and bloodshed, and still steeped in turmoil 60 years on, Pakistan has repeatedly defied predictions that the centre of the world's only nuclear-armed Islamic nation cannot hold. While Benazir Bhutto's assassination has renewed fears Pakistan will become another failed state with a destiny determined by bombs instead of ballots, analysts say it has been down this road before - ... more New Indonesia landslide as search for victims continues 
Tawangmangu, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 30, 2007A new landslide buried more than 30 homes on Indonesia's Java island Sunday as rescue workers continued searching for victims of earlier landslides and floods, an official said. No one was injured when the landslide hit Tengklik village in Tawangmangu area of Central Java around 1:00 pm, health ministry official Rustam Pakaya said. "Fortunately, there are no lives lost, however 177 peopl ... more ESA Training Team ATV 
Toulouse, France (ESA) Dec 31, 2007A multinational team of ground controllers are undergoing intense training for the launch of the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), one of the most complex spacecraft ever built and flown by ESA. It is 05:00 at the ATV Control Centre (ATV-CC) in Toulouse, France, and the simulator operator watches as his computer screen shows the initialisation of a computer simulation of the ATV spacecraft ... more Pakistan A Failing Nuclear Power 
Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2007 Pakistan is one of the world's eight nuclear powers and the first one to be categorized as a failing state. Not failed yet, but on its way, and the world's major powers are powerless to correct the downward spiral. Some U.S. presidential hopefuls -- e.g., New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson -- are calling on President Pervez Musharraf to resign. At this juncture, such a resignation would gu ... more
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