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Russia And China Against Deployment Of Weapons In Space
Beijing (RIA Novosti) May 27, 2008Russia and China want an international agreement to be drafted banning the deployment of weapons in space, the countries' leaders said on Friday in a joint declaration after talks in Beijing. "The sides are in favor of the peaceful use of space, but are against the deployment of weapons in space or a space arms race," the declaration said. In February Russia and China presented at a ... more iRobot Receives Orders For 200 More Infantry Robots 
Bedford MA (SPX) May 27, 2008iRobot Corp has received orders under two separate contracts from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), that manages these contracts on behalf of the Robotic Systems Joint Project Office at Warren, Mich. and Huntsville, Ala. PEO STRI placed a $16 million order, the third under the xBot contract, to put more than 200 robots and spar ... more X-48B Blended Wing Body Flight Tests Enter 2nd Phase 
Edwards, CA (SPX) May 27, 2008NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center and The Boeing Co. are expanding the flight envelope for the X-48B blended wing body research aircraft. Flight tests with the 500-pound, remotely piloted test vehicle are now in a second phase involving higher speed regimes. The 21-foot wing span test aircraft is flying without its slats deployed. Slats are flight control surfaces on the leading ... more SAIC Awarded Contract To Support Space And Naval Warfare Systems Command 
San Diego CA (SPX) May 27, 2008Science Applications International Corporation has won a contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, Program Executive Office for command and control, communications, computers and intelligence (PEO C4I) to provide specialized network infrastructure support for legacy systems. This single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract has a two year base ... more British Bulldog Helps Protect The Protectors 
London UK (SPX) May 27, 2008UK Defence Minister Baroness Ann Taylor announced Monday that the Army has taken delivery of the 500th upgraded Bulldog infantry troop carrier - large numbers of which are deployed in Iraq where they have been praised by troops. The delivery is part of a programme to upgrade 900 of one of the British Army's workhorse vehicles, the FV430 Mk 2. Soldiers from the First Battalion the Duke of L ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) May 26, 2008North Korea may hand over a declaration of its atomic activities during US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill's trip to Beijing this week or shortly afterwards, a report said Monday. But it is not clear whether Hill's Pyongyang counterpart, Kim Kye-Gwan, will show up in the Chinese capital to meet him, a South Korean government source told Yonhap news agency. Hill will be in Beijing from May ... more Israel has '150 or more' nuclear weapons: Carter 
London (AFP) May 26, 2008Israel has "150 or more" nuclear weapons, former US president Jimmy Carter said at a press conference over the weekend, a spokesman for the literary festival at which he was speaking confirmed. Asked how a future US president should deal with the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran, the 83-year-old said: "The US has more than 12,000 nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union (sic) has about the same; Gr ... more Iran still needs to explain weapons studies: IAEA 
Vienna (AFP) May 26, 2008Iran still needs to convincingly disprove allegations that there was a military dimension to its past nuclear activities, the UN atomic watchdog said on Monday. "Substantive explanations are required from Iran to support its statements on the alleged studies and on other information witha possible military dimension," the International Atomic Energy Agency said in its latest report on Tehran ... more US finds scant progress in IAEA report on Iran: envoy 
Vienna (AFP) May 26, 2008Iran has delivered scant evidence to suggest that its atomic drive has no military dimension, a top United States official said here on Monday. Reacting to a new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which said that Iran still had to convincingly disprove allegations of military ambitions behind its nuclear activities, the US envoy to the IAEA complained that Tehran was co ... more UN concludes Russia shot down Georgian spy plane 
Tbilisi (AFP) May 26, 2008The UN concluded in a report Monday that a Russian fighter jet shot down an unmanned Georgian spy plane last month, prompting the EU to call on Moscow and Tbilisi to "explain themselves." The report, posted on the UN website, said evidence gathered by UN monitors "leads to the conclusion that the aircraft belonged to the Russian air force" and that the downing was "fundamentally inconsistent ... more |
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Vancouver, Canada (SPX) May 27, 2008Western Wind Energy is pleased to announce that Western Wind is now engaged in negotiations reviewing other offers and is in discussions with major US institutions regarding self-financing initiatives whereby its 120 MW Windstar Project will produce directly, $1.7 billion in revenue over 30 years. Although Western Wind was offered $228 million for all development rights of its 120 MW Winds ... more USA Geothermal Forms Exploration Joint Venture In Nevada 
Boise ID (SPX) May 27, 2008U.S. Geothermal has announced that it has entered into a joint venture agreement with Gerlach Green Energy of Nevada ("GGE"). The target of the joint venture is the exploration of the Gerlach geothermal system, which is located in northwestern Nevada, at the town of Gerlach. The joint venture is located near the Company's Granite Creek leases that were recently acquired as part of the Empi ... more Nigerian army confirms explosion on pipeline in Nigeria 
Lagos (AFP) May 26, 2008The Nigerian army confirmed an explosion on Monday at an oil facility owned by Royal Dutch Shell in southern Nigeria, but denied militant claims that 11 soldiers had been killed. Lieutenant Colonel Musa Sagir told AFP that a "riser" near a flowstation in Degema in the Niger Delta region had "exploded in the early hours". Shell has yet to make a formal statement on the incident. ... more Olmert says Israel serious about peace with Syria 
Jerusalem (AFP) May 25, 2008Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday that indirect peace talks with Syria, a process begun more than a year ago and confirmed this week, will be conducted seriously and in secrecy. "We have no intention to conduct these negotiations neither in the media, nor in daily statements, nor in slogans," Olmert said before the weekly cabinet meeting. "I can say we are taking these ne ... more Iran conservatives tap ex-nuclear chief as speaker 
Tehran (AFP) May 25, 2008The conservative bloc dominating Iran's new parliament has chosen former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani as its candidate for speaker, the state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday. IRNA said conservatives MPs parliament chose Larijani by 161 votes against 50 for the incumbent Gholam Ali Hadad Adel, who is also a conservative. Conservatives have the majority in the new parliament after w ... more
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