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40 years on, NPT in urgent need of overhaul: experts
Vienna (AFP) June 29, 2008The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, which celebrates its 40th birthday this week, may have succeeded in keeping the number countries in possession of nuclear weapons down to a mere handful. But the treaty, drawn up during the Cold War period, is now in urgent need of an overhaul if it is to meet present-day challenges such as the proliferation crises in North Korea, Iran and most ... more US withdraws nuclear bombs from Britain: report 
Washington (AFP) June 27, 2008The United States has removed its nuclear arsenal in Britain, ending its half-century deployment there and reducing its European nuclear deployment to six locations in five countries, a report said. The withdrawal follows the removal of nuclear weapons from the Ramstein Air Base in Germany in 2005 and Greece in 2001, according to the The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Strategic ... more US gives 'major' boost to covert ops in Iran: report 
Washington (AFP) June 29, 2008The US Congress last year approved President George W. Bush's funding request of 400 million dollars for a dramatic increase in covert operations against Iran to undermine Tehran's leadership, a US magazine reported Sunday. The move reveals a "major escalation" in clandestine operations aimed at destabilizing the Islamic republic's religious leadership amid concerns over Tehran's nuclear ... more Rice urges NKorea to give up all nuclear weapons despite 'attachment' 
Seoul (AFP) June 28, 2008The United States pressed North Korea Saturday to follow up on a breakthrough by abandoning its full atomic weapons programme -- one where Washington sees signs of "emotional attachment" from Pyongyang. "At the end of this (process), we have to have the abandonment of all programmes, weapons and materials," US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after talks in Seoul with her South Korea ... more New Technology Creates Interoperability For Multinational Exercises 
Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Jun 30, 2008First multinational exercise in the army's combat exercise centre supported by the Saab integration tool WISE. Despite different system configurations from Austria and Germany, troop units from both nations exercised together in the ORF formation in the ALTMARK. Due mainly to the composition of NATO and EU intervention forces, multinational exercises are part and parcel of everyday life at ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jun 27, 2008 In his famous work "The Peloponnesian Wars," written more than 2,000 years ago, the classical Greek historian Thucydides argued that states go to war for one or all of three reasons. States fight against threats. States fight for profit. Or, states fight for honor. All three reasons were used to justify the United States' military intervention in Iraq. Of the three, however, only honor ... more NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan blast 
Kabul (AFP) June 29, 2008A British soldier with NATO forces in Afghanistan has been killed in a mine blast in the troubled southern province of Helmand, the defence ministry in London and the alliance said Sunday. The soldier, from the 5th Batallion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, died instantly when an apparent "legacy anti-personnel mine" went off near the airport at Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital ... more Israel has a year to destroy Iran's nuclear programme: ex-spy chief 
London (AFP) June 29, 2008Israel has one year to destroy Iran's nuclear programme or it faces the risk of coming under nuclear attack, the former head of its foreign intelligence agency said in an interview published Sunday. Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph, Shabtai Shavit said the "worst-case scenario" was that Tehran would have a nuclear weapon within "somewhere around a year". ... more Iran to ready thousands of graves for enemy soldiers 
Tehran (AFP) June 29, 2008Iran is to dig 320,000 graves in border districts to allow for the burial of enemy soldiers in the event of any attack on its territory, a top commander said on Sunday. "In implementation of the Geneva Conventions... the necessary measures are being taken to provide for the burial of enemy soldiers," the Mehr news agency quoted General Mir-Faisal Bagherzadeh as saying. "We have plans to ... more Taliban unable to expand insurgency in Afghanistan: NATO 
Kabul (AFP) June 29, 2008The Taliban cannot expand its insurgency into new Afghan areas, NATO said Sunday, a day after the Pentagon warned the rebels were likely to boost their presence in the north and west of the country. "Undoubtedly, the Taliban would like to expand their influence," Mark Laity a civilian spokesman for the NATO force in Afghanistan said. "But so far this year we assess that we've contained ... more |
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Paris (AFP) June 29, 2008Every week thousands of academic articles heralding discoveries in medicine and science are vetted and validated before being published in no-nonsense journals with names such as "Acta Crystallographica," "Methods in Enzymology," or "Macromolecules". Like works of art, these building blocks of human knowledge vary in quality and importance. Some are trivial, or just plain wrong. But a ... more Cooling global economy makes Chinese exporters hedge their bets 
Shanghai (AFP) June 29, 2008Feeling the chill from the US subprime crisis, Chinese exporters such as Zhejiang New Oriental Fastener Company no longer take it for granted that their customers will pay them. The company, whose 600 staff produce screws, nuts and bolts by the millions, has found that in an age of uncertainty it has to rethink the nuts and bolts of global trade. "With the subprime crisis, each of our ... more Australia, Japan, US plan disaster relief exercises 
Kyoto, Japan (AFP) June 27, 2008The foreign ministers of Australia, Japan and the United States pledged Friday to launch joint exercises to better coordinate relief operations after disasters in Asia. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura and Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith held talks on the sidelines of a Group of Eight meeting in the Japanese city of Kyoto. ... more Putin says central Asia wants to raise gas price for Ukraine 
Moscow (AFP) June 28, 2008Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday told his Ukrainian counterpart that Central Asian countries were urging Moscow to increase gas prices for Ukraine. Putin made the comments at the end of talks in Moscow with Ukranian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during which he also threatened to restrict military cooperation if the neighbouring country joined the NATO military alliance. ... more European airlines angered by EU 'CO2 tax' 
Brussels (AFP) June 27, 2008European airlines complained Friday that new EU rules on carbon dioxide emissions will cost them 4.8 billion euros (7.6 billion dollars) a year and threaten their future. Under an agreement reached Thursday, the European Union will set quotas on carbon dioxide, the main gas that causes global warming, on all airlines -- those from Europe and abroad -- from 2012. They would then have to ... more
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