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Defense Focus: Cruiser strategy -- Part 1
Washington (UPI) May 28, 2008 The new series of live-firing exercises by the Russian missile cruiser Varyag in the Pacific Ocean this week offers a revealing look at the current balance of competing weapon systems in surface warfare. The Varyag is nearly 20 years old, but following an extensive refit it is once again a formidable, state-of-the-art, world-class warship excellently designed and armed for its mission, ... more Outside View: Cyber-war realities 
Moscow (UPI) May 28, 2008 Cyberspace, initially the invention of science fiction, has become a fact of everyday life. Digitalized documents, business transactions and information exchange have highlighted the need for cyberspace security. In 2007 the U.S. Air Force set up Cyberspace Command -- AFCYBER. In the spring of 2008 the European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization addressed the issue. On M ... more Suicide blast kills three Afghans, 30 Taliban dead in strike 
Kabul (AFP) May 29, 2008A suicide attack targeting US-led troops killed three Afghans here on Thursday, as officials reported that NATO air strikes on a militant fort in the remote southwest of Afghanistan left 30 Taliban dead. The insurgent Taliban movement claimed responsibility for the car bombing in the capital, which also damaged vehicles carrying soldiers from the US-led military coalition helping Afghanistan ... more US: Iran must not 'stall' on nuclear issue 
Washington (AFP) May 28, 2008The United States warned Wednesday that it would not let Iran "stall" the world with nuclear negotiations while Tehran pursues what the West fears is an atomic weapons quest. "We cannot allow the Iranian regime to use negotiations to stall for time, hedge its bets and keep open an indigenous route to a nuclear weapon," US national security adviser Stephen Hadley said in a speech. ... more US to withdraw 4,000 troops from Iraq 
Baghdad (AFP) May 29, 2008The US military on Thursday announced the withdrawal of another 4,000 troops from Iraq next month as violence across the country hit a four-year low. The military said it was pulling out troops deployed as part of a controversial "surge" of forces in February 2007. The pullout is in line with US President George W. Bush's plan announced in September to complete the withdrawal of the 30,0000 ... more |
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Washington (AFP) May 28, 2008Newly diagnosed cases of post-traumatic stress disorder surged among US troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007, a peak year for US fighting and casualties, according to figures released Wednesday by the Pentagon. Statistics show a nearly 50 percent jump in new cases last year when 13,951 service members were diagnosed with combat stress, compared to 9,549 in 2006. The increase ... more Analysis: Indian security agencies faulted 
New Delhi (UPI) May 28, 2008 Indian intellectuals meeting in the aftermath of the May 13 bombings in the northern tourist spot of Jaipur have accused the security and investigative agencies of picking up Muslim youths on suspicion and without any tangible evidence of their involvement in terror-related crimes. The conference, titled "Terrorism: A Solidarity Approach" and jointly organized by the People's Movement ... more Larijani warns IAEA that Iran could revise cooperation 
Washington (AFP) May 28, 2008The United States on Wednesday demanded Iran provide detailed answers about its nuclear program after a critical report from the UN atomic watchdog, as Tehran warned it might suspend cooperation with the agency. "The Iranians have a lot of explaining to do about the IAEA report, which essentially sees them as not cooperating on some very important, dark questions that the international commu ... more Pakistan hails 'historic' nuclear tests 10 years on 
Islamabad (AFP) May 28, 2008Pakistan hailed the tenth anniversary of its first nuclear tests on Wednesday, saying it marked a decade of "responsibility and restraint" by the Islamic world's only atomic power. The foreign ministry issued a statement marking the anniversary of the detonations on May 28, 1998, which were carried out in response to nuclear tests by regional rival India and caused worldwide alarm. ... more Thunderstorms may add to woes of China's quake survivors 
Beichuan, China (AFP) May 27, 2008Survivors of China's earthquake huddled inside tents near their devastated homes Tuesday as they awaited a predicted thunderstorm, wondering how they would cope. In Renjiaping, a village near the quake's epicentre in southwest China's Sichuan province, people made homeless by the disaster said their biggest concern now was rains predicted to deluge the area in the days to come. Wang Sufe ... more |
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Yokohama, Japan (AFP) May 27, 2008The head of the World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday called for swift distribution of relief aid to victims of Myanmar's killer cyclone. "Distribution needs to be more complete and quicker and scaled up even more," WFP executive director Josette Sheeran told a news conference here. "We are really hoping we will now be able to scale up ... to the level that we can reach more people more ... more GreenHunter Energy Subsidiary Executes First Biodiesel Tolling Agreement 
Grapevine TX(SPX) May 29, 2008GreenHunter BioFuels, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of GreenHunter Energy, has signed a two-year biodiesel toll processing agreement with a third party specifically related to the Company's new biodiesel refinery located at the GreenHunter Renewable Fuels Campus in Houston, Texas. GreenHunter BioFuels has entered into a two-year biodiesel toll processing agreement with this entity for up ... more GE And Schlumberger Sign Alliance Agreement To Advance A Total Carbon Solution 
Houston TX (SPX) May 29, 2008GE Energy has signed a carbon sequestration alliance agreement with Schlumberger Carbon Services to accelerate the use of "cleaner coal" technology. The agreement aligns GE's experience in integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) systems with proven carbon capture capabilities and Schlumberger's geologic storage expertise and capabilities for site selection, characterization and qualificati ... more Florida Installing Advanced Network Of Smart Meters From Silver Spring Networks 
Juno Beach FL (SPX) May 29, 2008Having successfully tested an initial 50,000 new 'smart meters' earlier this year, Florida Power and Light Company recently began deploying a second 50,000 units to its customers in Broward County, Fla. Powered by technology from Silver Spring Networks (SSN), a leading provider of real-time networking solutions for electrical grids, the new 'smart meters' will help customers monitor their ... more Interview: Crescent Petroleum's Jafar 
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UPI) May 28, 2008 In a 20th floor leisure room overlooking the lake in the center of this Emirate's skyscrapers, Majid Jafar talks of matters far up the Persian Gulf, where seemingly every oil company wants to be: Iraq. Crescent Petroleum, the Sharjah-based oil company of which Jafar is an executive director, is already there. Along with Dana Gas, partly owned by Crescent and on whose board Jafar sits, t ... more
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