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Syria nuclear disclosure a warning to North Korea, Iran: Bush
Washington (AFP) April 29, 2008President George W. Bush said Tuesday he disclosed details of an alleged Syrian nuclear drive to send a clear "message" to North Korea and Iran that they could not hide their nuclear activity. The president expanded on the Syrian facility destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in September in a news conference also consumed by fears of economic recession and his lingering hopes for a deal on a ... more Analysis: DOJ's new global crime strategy 
Washington, April 29, 2008 U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey's new strategy for combating international organized crime will see prosecutors working more closely with U.S. intelligence agencies to identify, track and disrupt the operations of major global crime figures. The strategy, Mukasey's first major law enforcement initiative since taking office last year, will also expand the use against its leaders of ... more Analysis: Azeris seize Iran nuke material 
Washington, April 29, 2008 Amid increasingly rancorous U.S.-Iranian relations over Tehran's nuclear energy program, the U.N. sanctions regime scored a small victory March 29 when Azerbaijan's customs and frontier officials detained a Russian cargo bound for Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility. Khazar Ibragim, a spokesman for Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry, said the convoy of trucks carrying the shipment, sent from ... more Outside View: Iran nuke deadlock -- Part 2 
Moscow, April 29, 2008 The Russian Foreign Ministry said before the six-nation meeting in Shanghai on the Iranian nuclear issue between Russia, China, the United States, Britain, Germany and France that the talks should focus on developing new "positive" proposals for Iran this time. Moscow must have remembered that the latest U.N. Security Council resolution on Iran was accompanied by a statement of the six ... more DRS Awarded Contract For US Army Heavy Ammunition Trailers 
Parsippany NJ (SPX) Apr 30, 2008DRS Technologies has announced that it received a $10.1 million order to build more than 140 additional M989A1 Heavy Expanded Mobility Ammunition Trailers (HEMATs). The order was part of a previously awarded fixed-price, five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Army's Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command in Warren, Michigan. Work for this contract is ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) April 30, 2008Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said that a "comprehensive" package offered to Russia was aimed at "eradicating" the threats of war. The comments follow statements by Tehran's top national security official that he had held talks with his Russian counterpart on a new Iranian proposals to solve world problems, including the nuclear standoff with the West. Ahmadinejad ... more Defense Focus: C21 sub threat -- Part 2 
Washington, April 28, 2008 Anyone who has watched any World War II movies or History Channel documentaries knows what a wolf pack was: It was the massed attack carried out by Nazi submarines against British and American convoys of merchant ships in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. China is looking at a modern, 21st century of wolf pack tactics for any future war it might have to fight against the United ... more Analysis: Future of EU-Russia relations 
Berlin, April 29, 2008 The European Union hopes to soon finish weaving the fabric of a new partnership agreement with Russia amid continuing differences with Moscow over energy security and foreign policy. Tuesday's meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg is expected to see the adoption of "negotiating directives" for a new EU-Russia cooperation agreement, the existing one having been in dire need of ... more Several believed dead in US air raids in Baghdad 
Baghdad (AFP) April 29, 2008Several people were believed killed on Tuesday in two US air strikes in the Baghdad bastion of Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia, an AFP photographer and witnesses said. "Four houses have been heavily damaged," a resident of the Sadr City district said on condition of anonymity. Pictures taken by an AFP photographer showed completely destroyed houses and a number ... more Raytheon Awarded Contract To Upgrade Satellite Communication Terminals 
Marlborough MA (SPX) Apr 30, 2008Raytheon has won an $86.7 million contract to produce and install upgrade kits for the Army's Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical Terminal, or SMART-T. The award, part of an indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contract originally awarded in 2007, increases the total contract value to $183.3 million. The upgrades will be installed on joint and international terminals for the ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 29, 2008Chinese authorities on Tuesday jailed 30 people for between three years and life for their role in last month's Tibetan unrest, state press reported. The 30 were involved in violence on March 14 in Tibet's capital, Lhasa, CCTV news said, announcing the first verdicts for anyone connected with the unrest that has embarrassed and angered China ahead of the Olympics. Xinhua news agency ... more Dalai Lama yet to receive talks invite from Beijing: spokesman 
Paris (AFP) April 29, 2008The Dalai Lama's representative in Paris said Tuesday that Tibet's spiritual leader had yet to receive an invitation from Beijing despite China's public offer of talks. "China announced, via its official press agency, that Beijing wished to hold dialogue with a representative of the Dalai Lama," Jampal Chosang told AFP. "That announcement was made on Friday.... To-date, we have not received ... more More than 100 pro-Tibet protestors held in Nepal: official 
Kathmandu (AFP) April 29, 2008Some 114 pro-Tibet demonstrators were detained in Nepal's capital Tuesday as they tried to protest outside a Chinese embassy building, police said. Police held the Tibetan exiles, including around 50 monks and nuns, as soon as they arrived in the area close to the embassy's heavily guarded visa and trade section. "We have 114 Tibetans currently in detention," senior police officer ... more Tibet govt-in-exile says 203 dead in Tibetan unrest 
Dharamshala, India (AFP) April 29, 2008The number of people killed in a Chinese crackdown on protests and unrest in Tibet has risen by around 50 to 203, the Tibetan government-in-exile said Tuesday. Some 1,000 people had been hurt and 5,715 arrested since the demonstrations began on March 10, according to figures which the government based in the northern Indian town of Dharamshala said had been extensively cross-checked. ... more Tornado rips through Virginia, 200 injured: officials 
Washington (AFP) April 28, 2008A tornado ripped through southeastern Virginia on Monday, causing about 200 injuries and damaging homes, authorities said. "Suffolk looks to be hardest hit," said Bob Spieldenner, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, referring to the city in the southeast corner of the state. "They are estimating somewhere around 200 injuries." A local hospital was also hit ... more
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