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Outside View: Space race warnings
Moscow (UPI) Jun 5, 2008 The Americans seem determined to flood outer space with weapons. In early April U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. Gen. Henry Obering again called for the early deployment of space-based missile defense systems, a universal means of hitting either ground or space targets. His Russian counterpart and longtime opponent on this issue, Space Forces Commander Col. Gen. Vladimir ... more Analysis: Missiles aimed at Taiwan 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jun 6, 2008 Satellite photos of the Leping Ballistic Missile Base in China's southeastern province of Jiangxi show this is a key site for the deployment of the People's Liberation Army Air Force's DF-15A campaign tactical missiles. The direct distance from the base to Taiwan is 435 miles. It is apparent that the striking range of the earlier version, the DF-15 ballistic surface-to-surface missile ... more Analysis: Medvedev's trip to the West 
Berlin (UPI) Jun 5, 2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in his first official visit to the West, on Thursday in Berlin vowed to bring Russia closer to Europe, but warned that NATO's relations with Russia would be "ruined" if the alliance expanded further east. Does Medvedev read spy novels? His predecessor, Vladimir Putin, certainly didn't have to -- he was trained as a KGB agent. While one ... more A New Mission For Russian Armed Forces Chief Part One 
Washington (UPI) Jun 5, 2008 Gen. Nikolai Makarov has replaced tough, old Gen. Yury Baluyevsky as the chief of staff of Russia's armed forces and has been tasked with rapidly modernizing them -- but the odds are against him. Despite all the stories of gloom and doom about them that regularly appear in the Western media, the Russian armed forces are still one of the most formidable and important factors of military ... more War Zone Demand Assures Steady Growth For US Unmanned Aviation Systems Market 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2008In support of the global war on terror, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has bolstered the strength of its unmanned systems fleet, which includes unmanned aerial systems (UAS), unmanned ground systems (UGS), and unmanned maritime systems (UMS). The increasing demand for remotely operated systems from the DoD has created a multi-billion dollar defense industry, wherein small firms and large ... more |
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Jerusalem (AFP) June 8, 2008Israeli officials on Sunday slammed a senior minister's threat to attack Iran unless the Islamic republic halts its atomic drive, accusing him of exploiting the issue for political gain. Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai, in an interview with public radio, slammed what he called Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz's "cynical use of central strategic issues for internal political reasons." ... more Iran trying to complicate US-Iraq military talks: ambassador 
Washington (AFP) June 5, 2008The United States hopes to seal a deal with Iraq by July 31 on future US troop deployments despite Iranian attempts to complicate the negotiations, the US ambassador to Baghdad said here Thursday. "We have set the end of July as a notional date and we are certainly going to try meet that date," Ambassador Ryan Crocker told reporters during a brief visit to Washington. The US government ... more Poland would let Russia inspect missile site: report 
Moscow (AFP) June 5, 2008Poland is ready to give Russian inspectors access to a missile defence site that Washington hopes to build on Polish soil, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski was quoted on Thursday as saying. Sikorski was speaking to the Russian daily Gazeta as negotiations continue over the US plans to site missile defence facilities in both Poland and the Czech Republic, plans that have prompted ... more Turkish warplanes strike Kurdish rebels in Iraq: army 
Ankara (AFP) June 8, 2008Turkish warplanes bombed separatist Kurdish rebels in neighbouring northern Iraq late Saturday, the Turkish army said in a statement. The raid against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) began at 10:30 pm (1930 GMT) and targeted the Zap area, close to Turkey's border with Iraq, said the brief statement on the general staff's Internet site. It gave no further details. ... more US says it will emphasize diplomacy with Iran 
Washington (AFP) June 6, 2008The White House on Friday reiterated it would focus on diplomacy to persuade Iran to renounce sensitive nuclear activities after an Israeli official said force was the only option left. "I am not going to talk about hypotheticals; I think we've been pretty clear in recent weeks and months about our approach on Iran," said Scott Stanzel, a White House spokesman. "Obviously (...) issues of ... more |
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Tokyo (AFP) June 8, 2008Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, on his first mission in space, said Sunday he was in awe of the Earth as he spoke with his prime minister in Tokyo. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda joined a group of students who spoke through a video link with Hoshide, who is on the International Space Station (ISS) to help install Japan's first space laboratory, Kibo. Hoshide, working 338 kilometres ... more China tightens media controls in earthquake zone 
Mianzhu, China (AFP) June 6, 2008Chinese police Friday restricted the movements of foreign journalists in the earthquake zone, the latest sign that initial openness on covering last month's disaster was drawing to a close. Two AFP journalists were barred entry to the town of Wufu, where parents have bitterly demanded answers from the government why a 10-year-old primary school building collapsed in the May 12 quake when ... more China 'quake lake' still rising despite drainage: report 
Dujiangyan, China (AFP) June 8, 2008A swollen "quake lake" in southwest China continued to rise Sunday despite intensive efforts to drain it, triggering official warnings that the situation remained dangerous. Soldiers had already dug one channel to drain water from Tangjiashan lake, and were working Sunday to clear a second one in hopes of reducing the risk that it might burst its banks, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. ... more Mothers who lost children in China quake given new baby hope 
Beijing (AFP) June 7, 2008China has sent medics to offer reverse sterilisation operations to women who lost children in last month's Sichuan earthquake but want to give birth again, state media reported. Under China's one-child family planning policy, parents are allowed only one child in most cases and mothers are often encouraged to have sterilisation surgery after giving birth. However, a medical team is being ... more Walker's World: Are the BRICs crumbling? 
Washington (UPI) Jun 2, 2008 The Chinese media is reporting that Beijing's financial authority, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, has instructed Chinese mutual funds, on pain of "administrative punishment," to shore up falling stock prices and prevent a deeper slump. Three weeks ago the regulators appealed to the mutual funds to buy on patriotic grounds, to avoid a stock market plunge after the earthquake ... more
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