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Year-old 'surge' cuts violence in Iraq, but stability remains elusive
Washington (AFP) Jan 9, 2008One year after sending thousands of new troops to Iraq, the United States can claim progress on the security front, but durable stability in the war-shattered country may require a long-term US presence, experts said. Conrad Crane, director of the US Army military history institute, was one of several experts drawing the conclusion that the United States must prepare itself for a long stay i ... more Pakistan hits out at UN nuclear chief 
Islamabad (AFP) Jan 9, 2008Pakistan rejected the UN nuclear chief's criticism of its atomic weapons safety Wednesday, saying its arsenal would not fall into the hands of extremists and chastising his "irresponsible" remarks. Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq told a weekly press briefing that Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), should "be careful about his statements and ough ... more Ultralife Forms Technology Partnership With MSU To Develop Fuel Cell-Battery Portable Power Systems 
Newark NY (SPX) Jan 10, 2008Ultralife has entered into a technology partnership with Mississippi State University (MSU) to develop fuel cell-battery portable power systems enabling lightweight, long endurance military missions. The development of this power system is to be performed under a $1.6 million program that was awarded by a U.S. Defense Department agency to MSU as the prime contractor. MSU has awarded Ultralife a ... more Pentagon weighs sending 3,000 more troops to Afghanistan 
Washington (AFP) Jan 9, 2008US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is considering sending some 3,000 additional marines to Afghanistan to boost forces ahead of a Taliban spring offensive, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday. The proposal recommended by US commanders in Afghanistan will go before Gates on Friday, although a final decision was not expected at that time, said Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell. Morrell ... more US envoy says no panic over NKorea disarmament delay 
Seoul (AFP) Jan 9, 2008Chief US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill called for patience Wednesday in getting North Korea to dismantle its weapons drive, saying there was no need to panic over a missed deadline. Hill, who is on a regional tour to push for a quick resumption of six-party talks, said neither the communist North nor its negotiating partners "want to walk away" from a landmark deal forged in February last y ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jan 9, 2008The bipartisan conclave in Oklahoma this week was designed as a bridge between moderate Republicans and moderate Democrats who seek to use "smart power" to build a new world order. Smart power is the skillful conjugation of soft (diplomacy) and hard (military intervention) power, which kept the world at peace for half of the 20th century. (Wars in Korea and Vietnam were bumps in the road.) ... more Northrop Grumman Team To Compete For US Army Aerial Common Sensor 
Reston VA (SPX) Jan 10, 2008Northrop Grumman announced that it will lead a team to compete for the U.S. Army's Aerial Common Sensor (ACS), an airborne platform that will provide the warfighter with actionable intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition capability. Northrop Grumman's ACS team includes AAI Corporation, an operating unit of Textron Systems Corporation; General Dynamics C-4 Systems, ... more Scotland Yard beefs up Bhutto probe in Pakistan 
Islamabad (AFP) Jan 9, 2008Scotland Yard strengthened its team aiding the probe into the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Wednesday as concerns for the country's nuclear security grew. Three more detectives arrived from London, including an expert in the type of explosives used in the gun and suicide bomb attack which killed Bhutto and nearly two dozen of her supporters at a rally in Rawa ... more WHO Says Only 151 000 Iraqis Died From Violence Since 2003 Invasion 
Baghdad Iraq (WHO) Jan 10, 2008A large national household survey conducted by the Iraqi government and WHO estimates that 151 000 Iraqis died from violence between March 2003 and June 2006. The findings, published today on the web site of the New England Journal of Medicine, are based on information collected during a wider survey of family health in Iraq, designed to provide a basis for the Iraqi government to develop and up ... more World moving towards 'vibrant sustainable economy' 
Washington (AFP) Jan 9, 2008The world has woken up to the environmental challenges facing it and is moving towards a "vibrant sustainable economy," the Worldwatch research group said Wednesday in its "State of the World" report. "There are signs that a vibrant sustainable economy is being created, the product of an extraordinary amd unprecedented wave of innovation that is emerging in sectors like NGOs, consumer groups ... more |
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London, UK (SPX) Jan 10, 2008Shell International Trading and Shipping (Shell) is upgrading the navigation systems on several liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers with new-generation bridge electronics from Northrop Grumman. The new navigation systems are being installed on four LNG carriers managed by Shell for Bonny Gas Transport, a fully owned shipping subsidiary of Nigeria LNG Ltd. (NLNG); Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marin ... more Analysis: Crunch time for Bolivian gas 
Miami (UPI) Jan 9, 2008Bolivian President Evo Morales faces an uphill battle to keep his nation whole as several eastern provinces, which hold the country's lucrative gas reserves, are balking at his constitutional reform proposals. Among the proposals being put forward by Morales -- Bolivia's first indigenous leader -- is a more equal distribution of the country's revenue from natural gas by giving the cent ... more Arianespace To Build On The Success Of 2007 
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 09, 2008Arianespace will retain its industry leadership in 2008, relying on a three-pronged strategy of meeting the company's on-time mission commitments to customers, utilizing Ariane 5 launchers that are built to a standardized configuration, and maintaining a clearly defined commercial/industrial organization for its Service and Solutions offer. Speaking to journalists at its traditional New Ye ... more China planning to secure North Korea's nuclear arsenal: report 
Washington (AFP) Jan 8, 2008China has contingency plans to dispatch troops into North Korea and secure nuclear weapons in the event of instability in the hardline communist state, according to US experts who have talked to Chinese military researchers. Any intervention by Beijing would be done as far as possible after consultations with the United Nations, but unilateral action was not ruled out, the experts said in a ... more India to develop anti-missile defence system by 2010: official 
Visakhapatnam, India (AFP) Jan 8, 2008India will develop an indigenous defence system to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles by 2010, a defence official said. The system was currently being designed and would go on trial from 2009, said V.K. Saraswat, the chief controller of the Defence Research and Development Organisation. It would be capable of detecting, intercepting and destroying intermediate-range and intercontin ... more
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