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Walker's World: POTUS has a new rival
Madrid (UPI) Feb 13, 2008POTUS, as they call the president of the United States, has a new rival. For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the next American president can expect to meet an equal - the first person to occupy the new post of president of the European Union. The new European Treaty, currently being ratified by the 27 member states, creates a president for this agglomeration of ... more India to cut arms purchase red tape 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 13, 2008India is planning to cut some of the red tape associated with its weapons-buying in a bid to speed up purchases worth billions of dollars, officials said Wednesday. Many of the global conglomerates jostling to grab arms deals worth 30 billion dollars over the next five years see India's so-called offset policy as too "restrictive," defence ministry officials said. The offset policy obligations ... more FBI Awards Lockheed Martin Next Gen ID Program 
Rockville MD (SPX) Feb 13, 2008The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) awarded Lockheed Martin a ten-year, $1 billion contract to develop and maintain the Bureau's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system, a multi-modal, state-of-the-art biometrics system for use by state, local and federal authorities. "We were proud to collaborate with the FBI on the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, the ... more Pakistan tests nuclear-capable missile: army 
Islamabad (AFP) Feb 13, 2008Pakistani troops fired a short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile during exercises on Wednesday in the third such training launch in as many weeks, the army said. Soldiers from the country's strategic force command carried out a "successful" launch of the Hatf III (Ghaznavi) missile, which has a range of 290 kilometres (180 miles), an army statement said. The launch was witnessed by ... more Only NKorean missile can 'wake up' Japan, says Tokyo governor 
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 14, 2008Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara says the Japanese have lost their national pride, and only an outside provocation like a North Korean missile launch can shake them out of their complacency. Ishihara, an unrepentant nationalist who heads the world's largest metropolis, has warned that Japan could become a US or Chinese colony if its people do not act to protect themselves. ... more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Feb 13, 2008EADS Defence and Security (DS) handed over the system software for the state-of-the-art, digital Army Command and Control Information System (FuInfoSyS H) at the Franco-German Brigade site in Mullheim, Germany, to the Head of the Modernisation Department in the Federal Ministry of Defence. Under contract to the Federal Office for Information Management and Information Technology of the ... more Satellites At Risk Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Feb 13, 2008Earlier this month, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a new priority for his department - the protection of America's satellites. As if to underline the importance of the task, he demanded in early February that Congress allocate $10.7 billion for the purpose in 2009. Russia has voiced similar concerns. Air Force Commander Col.-Gen. Alexander Zelin told a conference at the ... more MEADS Passes PDR Milestone 
Washington (UPI) Feb 12, 2008Lockheed Martin said Monday that the Medium Extended Air Defense System had "recently completed its System Preliminary Design Review." Lockheed Martin said in a statement that the completion of the PDR marked "a major milestone in the program's development." "The MEADS team will now focus on detailed design work for the system, with the Critical Design Review ... more 911 Calls Offer Potential Early Warning System 
La Jolla CA (SPX) Feb 14, 2008When confronted with emergencies or natural disasters, such as the wildfires that raged through San Diego and Los Angeles counties last October or the tornadoes that hit the southern U.S. last week, residents often dial 9-1-1 as their first course of action. Now, UC San Diego researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, using 9-1-1 data from ... more India, China, emerging economies not immune to slowdown: IMF 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 13, 2008India, China and other emerging economies are in the "perfect storm" of global financial risk sparked by the US credit crunch and should mull steps to avoid a sharp downturn, the IMF chief said Wednesday. International Monetary Fund director general Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a meeting of Indian economists that large fast-growing economies like India and China had not "decoupled" from poor ... more |
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Columbia MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2008LPP Combustion has recently demonstrated natural gas-level emissions from bio-derived ethanol during gas turbine combustor testing using its patented LPP Combustion System. Emissions of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and particulate matter (soot) were the same as natural gas-level emissions achieved using current dry low emission gas turbine combustion ... more Analysis: Venezuela eases 'cut-off' threat 
Miami (UPI) Feb 12, 2008Officials at Venezuela's state-owned oil and gas giant PDVSA appeared Tuesday to back away from threats to "cut off" oil supplies to the United States amid a multibillion-dollar legal fight with ExxonMobil. While PDVSA head Rafael Ramirez said Venezuela was still "ready" to cut off supplies if the lawsuit filed by ExxonMobil persisted, he did note that South America's top oil supplier ... more Top scientists gather for debate on 21st century challenges 
Boston, Massachusetts (AFP) Feb 13, 2008Burning public health issues, cloned animals and the dangers of climate change will top the agenda at a conference drawing some 10,000 eminent scientists from around the world. The annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science opens on Thursday in Boston and will gather participants from 56 countries to discuss the latest scientific breakthroughs and challenges ... more Mao proposed sending 10 million Chinese women to US 
Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2008Chinese leader Mao Zedong proposed sending 10 million Chinese women to the United States, in talks with top envoy Henry Kissinger in 1973, according to documents released Tuesday. The powerful chairman of the Chinese Communist Party said he believed such emigration could kickstart bilateral trade but could also "harm" the United States with a population explosion similar to China, according ... more China suffers first defeat at WTO over auto parts 
Geneva (AFP) Feb 13, 2008China suffered its first defeat at the World Trade Organisation after the body upheld a complaint by the US, EU and Canada over Beijing's import tariffs on car parts, a source said Wednesday. The case is the first time China has been the subject of a complaint that went all the way through to the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body since joining the organisation in 2001. China has a minimum ... more
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