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Taiwan arms warship with supersonic missiles: report
Taipei (AFP) Jan 25, 2008Taiwan has for the first time installed home-developed anti-ship missiles on a warship in a significant boost of its naval defence against rival China, a report said Friday. The supersonic Hsiung-feng (Brave Wind) 3 missiles were seen on the Perry-class Cheng Kung frigate in the southern port of Tsoying on Thursday, said the United Daily News. The paper quoted commander-in-chief Admiral ... more Pakistan army chief rejects world nuclear fears 
Islamabad (AFP) Jan 25, 2008The chief of Pakistan's powerful army on Friday dismissed "unrealistic" fears that Al-Qaeda could seize the country's nuclear weapons, as the military test-fired a ballistic missile. In a rare foray into politics, the normally reclusive General Ashfaq Kiyani rejected speculation that Pakistan's warheads could be at risk amid the turmoil sparked by the assassination of former premier Benazir ... more UN Security Council to review proposed new Iran sanctions Friday 
United Nations (AFP) Jan 24, 2008Envoys of six major powers dealing with Iranian nuclear issue agreed Thursday to present elements of a third sanctions resolution against Tehran to the full UN Security Council Friday. The closed-doors meeting involving ambassadors from the five veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany was the first since ... more India, France to agree to boost military ties beyond trade 
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 25, 2008India and France agreed Friday to strengthen military cooperation and move beyond a "buyer-seller relationship," Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday. "I think it is very important that India and France should cooperate, share information and intelligence gathering for defence of the values which are dear to both our countries," the prime minister said in a joint news conference ... more US not interested in permanent Iraq bases: Gates 
Washington (AFP) Jan 24, 2008The United States has no interest in setting up permanent bases in Iraq, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday, playing down concerns raised by negotiations on the future US military presence in Iraq. Democratic critics have expressed fears that a planned "Status of Forces Agreement" (SOFA) with Iraq will tie the hands of future US presidents by committing the United States to a lo ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 24, 2008A planned US military accord with Iraq aims to keep security options open rather than tie "the hands of future policy makers" or leave permanent US bases there, a US official said Thursday. State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey sought to dismiss fears that the US administration and President George W. Bush would use the deal to lock the next US leader into an open-ended military commit ... more US unlikely to cut Iraq forces below pre-surge levels: analysts 
Washington (AFP) Jan 23, 2008President George W. Bush is unlikely to reduce US forces in Iraq to less than levels just before the surge this year for fear of putting at risk security gains, US analysts said Wednesday. The top US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, will make recommendations in March or April on whether more troops can come home in the second half of the year, further shrinking the size of US force ... more Afghan air force seven years away from combat missions: general 
Washington (AFP) Jan 24, 2008With its ageing pilots flying Soviet-era aircraft, Afghanistan's fledgling air force will not be ready to support its own troops in combat before 2013, a US Air Force official said Wednesday. Brigadier General Jay Lindell, who is heading the eight year US effort to build the Afghan National Army Air Corps, told reporters here that the main impediment to moving more quickly is a lack of pilot ... more Senior US commander visits Uzbekistan 
Tashkent (AFP) Jan 24, 2008The head of the US Central Command, Admiral William Fallon, met Thursday with Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov, state television reported, in a one of the highest-level visits to the gas-rich ex-Soviet republic by a US official in years. "We consider your visit a remarkable event in mutual relations between Uzbekistan and the US ... and a good chance for discussing military-technical coo ... more More Russian nuclear fuel delivered to Iran 
Tehran (AFP) Jan 24, 2008Russia delivered a sixth consignment of fuel for Iran's first nuclear power plant in the Gulf port of Bushehr on Thursday which makes it around 80 percent of the consignment, the official IRNA news agency reported. "The sixth load of nuclear fuel arrived at the Bushehr plant on Thursday morning," said a statement from the Organisation for Production and Development of Nuclear Energy quoted b ... more |
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Hallbergmoos, Germany (SPX) Jan 25, 2008The combined fleet of 135 in-service Eurofighter Typhoons and seven Flight Test aircraft has accumulated over 35,000 flying hours by the end of December 2007. Since introduction into service in Spring 2004, the five customer Air Forces, including, since Summer 2007, Austria have achieved 30,650 flying hours. An amazing 50 % of this amount were flown in 2007, demonstrating the tremendous growth o ... more NATO chief urges Russia to stop 'unhelpful rhetoric' 
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Jan 24, 2008NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer urged Russia on Thursday to abandon "unhelpful rhetoric" and talk through its differences with the alliance. "From time to time, we hear rhetoric coming from Moscow which I do think is unhelpful," said Scheffer on a visit to the United Arab Emirates -- the first by a NATO chief. "We have our differences ... These differences are fundamental and I take the ... more Global slowdown could impact China: analysts 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 24, 2008Global economic weakness may be about to do what China's own policy-makers have been unable to: pull growth in the world's fourth-largest economy down from its current dizzying heights. Government data published Thursday showed the Chinese economy grew by 11.4 percent in 2007, the fastest pace in 13 years, but cooled slightly towards the New Year, as the alarm bells over the US economy got l ... more Move Over US - China To Be New Driver Of World's Economy And Innovation 
Athens GA (SPX) Jan 25, 2008A new study of worldwide technological competitiveness suggests China may soon rival the United States as the principal driver of the world's economy - a position the U.S. has held since the end of World War II. If that happens, it will mark the first time in nearly a century that two nations have competed for leadership as equals. The study's indicators predict that China will soon pass t ... more Bio-diesel film not to everyone's tastes at Sundance 
Park City, Utah (AFP) Jan 23, 2008Activist Josh Tickell has been using and promoting bio-diesel for about 10 years as an alternative to fossil fuels, helping America lessen its dependence on foreign oil. In his documentary film "Fields of Fuel," premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this week, he outlines the historical origins of and the political constructs that support petroleum use. As well, he presents the benefi ... more
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