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US helicopter engines missing in Pakistan-Afghanistan: coalition
Kabul (AFP) June 18, 2008The US-led coalition in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that four US helicopter engines worth more than 13 million dollars had gone missing while being transported by a Pakistani truck company. "Four helicopter engines transported by a Pakistani truck company to Coalition Joint Task Force 101 went missing. The exact location is not determined yet", coalition spokesman Christian Patterson told ... more Walker's World: France's new military 
Washington (UPI) Jun 18, 2008 French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has just unveiled a strikingly ambitious new plan for a joint European military force and identity, has an interesting sense of timing. He launched his bold proposals for a new EU aircraft carrier task force, along with a common air transport and logistics command and common procurement systems, on June 16. This was the anniversary of ... more Iraq says deadline for Shiite fighters 'successful' 
Amara, Iraq (AFP) June 18, 2008Dozens of Shiite militiamen surrendered to Iraqi forces on Wednesday hours before a deadline set by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for them to lay down their arms ahead of a new military crackdown. Officials said the four-day deadline given to the fighters in the southern oil rich province of Maysan was successful although some militants had escaped ahead of the crackdown set to begin at ... more Iran says will 'never' suspend enrichment: report 
Tehran (AFP) June 18, 2008Iran said it will "never" suspend its enrichment of uranium, in defiance of demands from world powers to suspend the sensitive nuclear activity, the official IRNA agency reported. "The United States and their allies want to oblige Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment in an illegal manner," IRNA quoted Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh a ... more Analysis: USAF counterinsurgency, Part 2 
Washington (UPI) Jun 18, 2008 To make the U.S. Air Force more relevant to the military's new counterinsurgency mission, experts say, the new leadership of the service has to "reinvent itself," look for alternatives to high-cost, high-tech, fuel-guzzling aircraft, and break out of its decades-long planning and procurement cycle to become a more agile, diverse force. Defense Secretary Robert Gates last week broke the ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Jun 18, 2008 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has granted Russia more than 70 million euros for disposing of scrapped nuclear ships and submarines moored at naval bases in Russia's northwest. Russia's state nuclear corporation -- Rosatom -- and the EBRD signed four relevant agreements on June 5. The EBRD is managing the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership ... more Democrats lash McCain over Boeing tanker row 
Washington (AFP) June 18, 2008The Democratic Party Wednesday turned new controversy over an Air Force tanker deal into a searing election attack on Republican White House hopeful John McCain. The Democratic National Committee, which is now fused with Barack Obama's presidential campaign, accused the Arizona senator of weighing in "on behalf of his lobbyist friends" to steer the tanker deal to European giant EADS. ... more Crunch talks on India-US nuclear deal postponed 
New Delhi (AFP) June 18, 2008Crucial talks between the Indian government and its left-wing allies on a controversial nuclear energy pact with the United States were postponed Wednesday with both sides still at odds over the deal. Neither side gave any reason for the delay but a source close to the talks, who asked not to be named, said left-wing parties were refusing to respond to a government appeal for the deal to go ... more Congress watchdog ruling a blow to Airbus US military strategy: analysts 
Paris (AFP) June 18, 2008The decision by the US Congressional watchdog Wednesday to back Boeing's protest over a massive inflight tanker contract is a blow to Airbus and its efforts to break into the giant US military market, analysts said. EADS, the parent company of Airbus which had teamed up with Northrop Grumman to win the 35-billion-dollar contract earlier this year, saw the deal as a key plank in efforts to ... more China urges NKorea to move forward nuclear talks: report 
Beijing (AFP) June 18, 2008Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping Wednesday urged North Korea and other countries to move forward six-nation talks about scrapping Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme, state media reported. In a meeting with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang, Xi said all parties involved "should work together to implement second-phase actions and move six-party talks into a new phase," ... more |
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Reston VA (SPX) Jun 19, 2008The Global Broadcast Service Satellite Broadcast Manager facility in Wahiawa, Hawaii, recently began operational broadcasts over the U.S. Air Force's new Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite. Developed and operated for the past 10 years by Raytheon, the Global Broadcast Service now provides users in the Pacific with increased capacity, thanks to the WGS. "The addition of WGS ... more Analysis: Iraq's Angel of Light goes home 
Baghdad (UPI) Jun 18, 2008 Al Herman is no diplomat. His choice words are frank, sometimes unprintable, and usually effective. As America's top adviser to Iraq's Electricity Ministry for the past 28 months, he's butted heads professionally with Iraqi ministers and the U.S. commanding general. On Friday, the Angel of Light, as he's been dubbed, turned out the lights of his office in Saddam Hussein's old ... more Guard Units Provide Real-Time Video Of Flood Damaged Areas 
Madison WI (AFNS) Jun 19, 2008Flying at 8,000 feet above flood ravaged Wisconsin, members of the Wisconsin Air National Guard with assistance from Air Guard units from Arkansas and Mississippi provided emergency management officials with "eyes in the sky" to help with disaster relief efforts. Recent heavy rains have left Wisconsin rivers and lakes swollen and in many cases the surrounding areas flooded. With disaster ... more Advance Towards Early Alzheimer Diagnosis 
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Jun 19, 2008An Australian research project has found a way to bring forward the detection of early stage Alzheimer's disease by up to 18 months. The leader of the team that made the discovery, Professor Christopher Rowe of the Austin Hospital in Melbourne, says early diagnosis and treatment presents medical practitioners with the best opportunity to delay the onset of Alzheimer's. "While the ... more Leading Chinese rights lawyer to defend dissident 
Beijing (AFP) June 18, 2008Leading Chinese human rights lawyer Mo Shaoping is to defend dissident Huang Qi, accused of "illegal possession of state secrets" after being taken into police custody last week. Mo, whose past clients include Zhao Yan, a former New York Times staffer who was freed from jail last year after being locked up for fraud, said he had accepted the case on Tuesday. "Exactly what state secrets ... more
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