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Raytheon Teams With Swift Engineering To Offer KillerBee UAS
Tucson AZ (SPX) May 13, 2008Raytheon has teamed with Swift Engineering, Inc. to provide the U.S. Navy and U. S. Marine Corps with an unmanned aircraft system for their respective Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Tier 2 missions. Raytheon leads the team and offers aircraft and mission systems integration with connectivity to the customers' combat systems and command and control systems. Swift Engineering ... more US envoy briefs colleagues on NKorea plutonium documents 
Washington (AFP) May 12, 2008A US envoy started briefing State Department colleagues Monday about thousands of documents linked to North Korea's plutonium program that he brought back from Pyongyang, officials said. Sung Kim, director of the State Department's Korea office, returned to the State Department and briefed colleagues there about the documents handed over last week in Pyongyang, the officials said. ... more Taipei says China defence build-up to deter US intervention 
Taipei (AFP) May 12, 2008China is building up its military defences to deter US intervention in case of war with Taiwan, the island's defence ministry said Monday. Beijing is focusing on developing long-range missiles "to strike at American bases and battle carrier groups stationed in the Asia-Pacific... so as to block the United States from coming to the rescue of Taiwan should war break out in the Taiwan Strait," ... more Iran-IAEA hold new round of nuclear talks 
Tehran (AFP) May 12, 2008Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog held a new round of talks on Monday on Tehran's disputed atomic drive, the official IRNA news agency reported. An unnamed source quoted by the agency said the talks, which meetings between Iranian officials and representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency in April, would last three days. The Iranian delegation is headed by Iran's ambassador ... more Military Matters: A time to cut -- Part 1 
Washington (UPI) May 12, 2008 At a recent book party for Winslow Wheeler's new history of the military reform movement of the 1970s and 1980s, I was asked for my views on the prospects for genuine reform. I replied, "So long as the money flow continues, nothing will change." Chuck Spinney, a reformer who spent decades as a polyp in the bowels of the U.S. Department of Defense, agreed. Events on Wall Street suggest ... more |
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Washington (UPI) May 12, 2008 The leak of Bush administration guidelines urging U.S. officials to avoid using terms such as "jihadi" or "Islamic terrorists" to refer to al-Qaida and similar groups has exposed a fault line in Republican thinking about the U.S. war on terror. Last Friday every GOP member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence voted for an amendment to an intelligence bill that would ... more Analysis: Hezbollah guns mightier than pen 
Washington (UPI) May 12, 2008 Lebanon has always been a country that has stood out from the rest of the Middle East for a number of reasons -- primarily because Lebanon consistently has been a country of many contradictions. It's the only country in the Arab world with a functioning parliamentary system that is not dependent on and does not answer to the executive; that, however, is true only when Parliament ... more Afghanistan says thousands flee fearing NATO strikes 
Kabul (AFP) May 12, 2008Up to 6,000 people have fled their homes in a southern Afghanistan district fearing NATO strikes amid a large-scale operation against Taliban militants, an official said Monday. The mass exodus from Garmser, a remote district in troubled Helmand province, comes as NATO-led troops hunt Taliban militants and their allies in an operation that kicked off two weeks ago. "Around 900 families ... more Walker's World: Georgia on my mind 
Frankfurt, Germany (UPI) May 12, 2008 Overwhelmingly, the tests that face the new duopoly of power in the Kremlin are internal and obvious. But Russia's future course may well be determined by an international dispute that has seemed relatively small and distant except for those most involved. Suddenly, both the dispute and the wider implications are getting serious. Russia's saber-rattling over the small former Soviet ... more China says foreign aid offers 'welcome' 
Beijing (AFP) May 13, 2008China said Tuesday it "welcomed" the offers of aid that have come in from around the world following a devastating earthquake that has caused nearly 10,000 confirmed deaths so far. "After the earthquake, the international community offered its support and sympathy to China. China and its people express their thanks and their welcome toward that," foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said. ... more |
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Bangkok (AFP) May 13, 2008The World Health Organisation said Tuesday it had sent body bags to cyclone-hit Myanmar, as experts warned that rotting corpses remain uncollected and pose a major health risk. The United Nations' health arm said the body bags are among shipments of 30,000 surgical masks and 30,000 gloves that have been sent to the Irrawaddy delta region which was obliterated in the May 2 catastrophe. ... more Transport, communications in chaos after China quake 
Beijing (AFP) May 12, 2008Transport and communication networks around China were thrown into chaos Monday after a powerful earthquake struck the country's southwest, killing more than 8,700 people, witnesses and media said. The 7.8-magnitude quake jolted Wenchuan, a mountainous region in Sichuan province, just before 2.30pm (0630 GMT) on Monday. The death toll in Sichuan alone came to 8,533 people, according to s ... more 'Thousands' dead or buried in China factory town: Xinhua 
Chengdu, China (AFP) May 13, 2008"Several thousand" people were killed or buried in a southwestern China town where a major factory collapsed after a powerful earthquake, state-run Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. The report, which gave few other specifics on the casualty numbers, said the disaster occurred when a steam turbine factory collapsed Monday in the town of Hanwang in Mianzhu city. "The earthquake has kille ... more Tens of thousands dead or missing in China quake 
Dujiangyan, China (AFP) May 13, 2008China was reeling Tuesday from its worst earthquake in three decades which left tens of thousands of people dead, missing or trapped under crushed houses, schools and factories. Rescuers were struggling to reach towns and villages devastated by Monday's huge 7.8 magnitude quake in southwestern Sichuan province, which is still being pummeled by wave after wave of terrifying aftershocks. ... more Japan says China quake to cause economic damage 
Tokyo (AFP) May 13, 2008A Japanese minister on Tuesday expected an economic blow from China's major earthquake, which shut operations of Toyota Motor Corp. and other Japanese companies. "It is unavoidable for the earthquake to have an impact on the Chinese economy," said Hiroko Ota, minister for state for economic and fiscal policy. "It is fully possible that this will affect local operations by Japanese firms, ... more
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