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Moscow (AFP) April 22, 2008Russian concerns over US plans to site parts of an anti-missile shield in Europe have not been allayed despite US claims to the contrary, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying Tuesday. "Several people representing the United States, briefing their NATO partners, have given the impression that all of Russia's problems have been resolved," Lavrov was quoted as saying by Interfax ... more Raytheon Awarded Contract For South Korea Patriot Air And Missile Defense Capabilities 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Apr 23, 2008Raytheon has received a $241 million U.S. Foreign Military Sales contract to provide the Republic of Korea with command and control, communications, maintenance support, and training equipment for the Patriot air and missile defense system. This production and support award complements the $28.7 million engineering services contract the company announced March 3. "The Patriot system will ... more Military Matters: Iraq state fantasy 
Washington, April 22, 2008 When Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent his "army" to fight the Mahdi Army in Basra, U.S. President Bush called it "a defining moment." It turned out instead to be a confirming moment. It confirmed that there is no state in Mesopotamia -- the geographical territory known as the nation of Iraq. One of the most common signs that America's leadership is clueless about Fourth ... more US experts discuss nuclear declaration with North Korea 
Washington (AFP) April 22, 2008US experts held talks Tuesday with the top North Korean nuclear negotiator over a much awaited nuclear declaration the hardline communist state pledged to provide as part of a six-nation deal, the State Department said. The multilateral talks have been stalled for months by a dispute over the North's declaration on its nuclear weapons program and proliferation activities, which they promised ... more US asks China to pull back arms shipment to Zimbabwe 
Washington (AFP) April 22, 2008The United States has asked China to withdraw a cache of its weapons destined for Zimbabwe and to halt further arms shipments to the increasingly isolated African regime, the State Department said Tuesday. Beijing was told "to refrain from making additional shipments and, if possible, to bring this one back," department spokesman Tom Casey said, referring to a Chinese ship loaded with arms ... more |
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Baghdad (AFP) April 22, 2008A US air strike Tuesday killed 10 people in Baghdad, Iraqi officials said, as the American military announced the deaths of five troops and a female suicide bomber slaughtered six Iraqis north of the capital. The US military initially denied there had been an air strike but later reported an "air weapons team engagement" in Sadr City, an east Baghdad Shiite bastion where militiamen are ... more India bristles at US comments on Ahmadinejad visit 
New Delhi (AFP) April 22, 2008India on Tuesday told Washington to mind its own business after a US official said New Delhi should urge Iran to curtail its nuclear programme during a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian president will arrive in New Delhi on April 29 for a one-day "working visit" topped by talks on two multi-billion-dollar energy deals, an Indian foreign ministry official said this week. ... more Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked 
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania (AFP) April 22, 2008Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton threatened to "totally obliterate" Iran if the Islamic Republic was ever "reckless" enough to launch a nuclear attack on Israel. She later said her remark was an attempt to lay out a rationale for a Cold War-style system of deterrence with Iran, but her rival Barack Obama accused her of saber-rattling, as Pennsylvania held its crucial president ... more Analysis: German Big Brother bill bashed 
Berlin, April 22, 2008 Germany fears its government is trying to turn the country into a Big Brother state for the sake of more efficient anti-terror operations. At least the police are happy: Investigations are "much easier with the new methods," a spokesman for Germany's Federal Criminal Office, or BKA, said last week. Germany's Interior and Justice ministries last week struck a deal on a set of new ... more Sign Language Interpreters At High Ergonomic Risk 
Rochester NY (SPX) Apr 23, 2008Sign language interpreting is one of the highest-risk professions for ergonomic injury, according to a new study conducted by Rochester Institute of Technology. The research indicates that interpreting causes more physical stress to the extremities than high-risk tasks conducted in industrial settings, including assembly line work. It also found a direct link between an increase in the men ... more |
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Bangkok (AFP) April 22, 2008Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej Tuesday lashed out at the World Bank and UN for criticising biofuel producing nations for soaring food prices while sparing oil exporters. Samak said he had set up two government committees to oversee the urgent issues of energy prices and food supply as he reassured Thais there was enough rice for domestic consumption. Biofuels were developed as part ... more France, Saudi Arabia to cooperate in CO2 'capture' technology 
Rome (AFP) April 21, 2008France said Tuesday it planned to cooperate with Saudi Arabia in solar energy and in technology for "capturing" and storing carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, preventing them from being released into the atmosphere. The two countries would set up a joint top-level technical group in Paris by July, French Energy Minister Jean-Louis Borloo told reporters on the sidelines of the ... more IEF expresses 'concern' over high oil prices 
Rome (AFP) April 22, 2008Ministers from 74 countries attending the International Energy Forum here expressed "concern" Tuesday at high oil prices, which topped a record 119 dollars. "Ministers expressed concerns over the current level of oil prices," the IEF said in a final statement issued after three days of talks. "Oil prices should be at levels that are acceptable to producers and consumers to ensure global ... more Analysis: EU and Central Asian gas 
Washington, April 22, 2008 The European Union, gazing hungrily at Central Asia's vast oil and natural gas deposits, has long sought to weaken Russia's grip over Caspian exports. Now the EU has succeeded in getting its nose under the Turkmen tent, and in Moscow Gazprom Chief Executive Officer Alexei Miller must be drowning his sorrows, as Russia provides about 40 percent of the EU's natural gas imports. On April 9 ... more World's Fastest Satellite Internet Connection To User Terminal Via KIZUNA 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 22, 2008The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) performed a verification of regenerative switching functions between an ultra small-size user terminal (45 cm-diameter antenna) and a high-speed small ground station (1.2 m-diameter antenna) using the onboard multi-beam antenna(1) of "KIZUNA," and confirmed that Internet ... more
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