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US advice unheeded in Basra campaign: Petraeus
Washington (AFP) April 11, 2008Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki disregarded US advice in launching a campaign in Basra last month that plunged Iraqi troops in fighting without adequate preparation, the US commander in Iraq said Friday. General David Petraeus said US and Iraqi officers had developed a more deliberate plan to restore order in the strategic port city over a period of several months. But after they ... more Rice denies NKorean nuclear deal 
Washington (AFP) April 11, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denied Friday that the deadlock had been broken in North Korea's nuclear disarmament talks. "We are not yet at a point where we can make a judgement as to whether or not the North Koreans have met their obligations," Rice said here at a press conference with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. "And we are therefore not at a point at ... more Kiev accuses Moscow of meddling after NATO remarks 
Kiev (AFP) April 12, 2008Kiev accused Moscow Saturday of meddling in its internal affairs, a day after Russia's armed forces chief warned of military steps in reaction to Georgia's and Ukraine's desire to join NATO. "The declarations of high Russian officials have an openly anti-Ukrainian nature, questioning the territorial integrity of Ukraine and constitute meddling in the internal affairs" of the country, the for ... more Iran boasts hundreds of new centrifuges: report 
Tehran (AFP) April 11, 2008Iran has started operating hundreds of new uranium-enriching centrifuges at its main nuclear plant, the official IRNA news agency said on Friday, confirming Tehran is expanding its contested atomic drive. Iran is now operating 492 new centrifuges at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, the agency quoted an informed source as saying, in defiance of UN calls to freeze the process which the ... more France's Kouchner says can't stay in Afghanistan for ever 
Kabul (AFP) April 12, 2008French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Saturday that international forces would not stay in Afghanistan for ever and Afghans had to take over more responsibilities. Arriving in Kabul a week after France vowed to nearly double the number of its forces in Afghanistan to 3,000, Kouchner said the foreign military muscle and financial aid ploughed into Afghanistan needed an end product. ... more |
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Dushanbe (AFP) April 11, 2008French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Friday that the number of French troops in Afghanistan would reach about 3,000 after the arrival of a fresh battalion to fight extremists there. "I don't have the exact figure, which is known to the military (but) there will be about 3,000," he told a news conference during a visit to Tajikistan which borders the war-torn country. "We're not ... more China supports Pakistan stability measures: Hu 
Boao, China (AFP) April 11, 2008Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday told his Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf he supported measures taken by the South Asian government to maintain stability, Chinese state media reported. "China respects, understands and supports all measures taken by the Pakistani government to maintain domestic peace and stability, and promote economic development," Hu said, according to Xinhua ... more BMD Watch: SBIRS software passes IDR check 
Washington, April 11, 2008 Lockheed Martin has concluded a full Integrated Design Review of its SBIRS flight software. The company said in a statement Tuesday it had finished a full review of the command and control flight software for the Space Based Infrared System geo-synchronous orbit spacecraft. SBIRS is a next-generation system to be deployed more than 22,000 miles above the Earth in ... more Analysis: China continues nuke buildup 
Hong Kong, April 11, 2008 China's stockpile of intermediate-range ballistic missile nuclear warheads should by no means be ignored. The People's Liberation Army's strategy of keeping a balance between its nuclear and conventional capabilities, or focusing on nuclear capability, as a matter of fact refers to these IRBMs and some short-range ballistic missiles. It can be generally believed that the implementation ... more 13 killed in Baghdad battles 
Baghdad (AFP) April 12, 2008Security forces killed 13 gunmen in firefights and air strikes in east Baghdad overnight, the US military said on Saturday, as witnesses said two children and their parents were among the dead. A US military statement listed the dead in the battles as two snipers, two "criminals" firing rocket-propelled grenades, six gunmen wielding machine guns and automatic weapons and three men placing ... more |
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Amherst MA (SPX) Apr 14, 2008George Huber of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a $400,000 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to pursue his revolutionary new method for making biofuels, or "green gasoline," from wood or grasses, a process that would be much less expensive than conventional gasoline or ethanol made from corn. Results of Huber's research were published in the April 2008 ... more ConocoPhillips, NREL and Iowa State To Establish Biofuels Research Alliance 
Golden CO (SPX) Apr 14, 2008ConocoPhillips and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), headquartered in Golden, CO, have announced a strategic research alliance with Iowa State University (ISU) to identify promising cellulosic biomass conversion technologies to further diversify the nation's energy sources and help meet growing energy demand. The collaboration will bring three ... more Analysis: India eyes Kazakh energy 
India may be a relative latecomer in the rush for Caspian hydrocarbon riches, but its booming economy and stable democratic traditions make it an attractive market for Central Asian energy producers, particularly Kazakhstan. Bishkek it adroitly seeking to diversify is markets, as Russia takes 33 percent of the country's exports. To bolster India's presence in the Caspian and ... more Analysis: EU eyes Gazprom's Nigeria play 
Berlin, April 11, 2008 Russia's Gazprom is making sure it keeps its dominance of the European gas market, observers say, by trying to influence a potential alternative supplier to Europe -- Nigeria. Europe's dependence on Russian gas has worried officials in Brussels ever since Russia in 2006 temporarily shut off Ukrainian gas supplies until the country agreed to pay higher prices. What followed were a string ... more Ball Aerospace GFO Satellite Begins Eleventh Year On Orbit 
Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 10, 2008The Ball Aerospace and Technologies operational altimeter satellite, GEOSAT Follow-On (GFO), has achieved 10 years of successful on orbit operation, providing continuous worldwide oceanographic data for ships at sea and the Navy's shore-based facilities. GFO, launched in February 1998, was the first real-time, radar altimeter satellite built for the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems ... more
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