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Oxford, England (UPI) Jun 30, 2008 The headlines around next week's Group of Eight summit meeting in Japan will focus on North Korea and Iran, on poverty and climate change. But the background music, which began swelling at last month's meeting of G8 finance ministers, is signaling the coming of something far more profound: the end of the 30-year era of free trade and free markets. Charlie McCreevy, the European Union's ... more US Navy Conducts First Test Of Raytheon's Standard Missile 6 
White Sands NM (SPX) Jul 01, 2008The U.S. Navy successfully conducted the first test of the Standard Missile 6 extended range anti-air warfare missile produced by Raytheon. The missile, launched from the Navy's Desert Ship at the White Sands Missile Range, successfully intercepted a BQM-74 aerial drone using the newly developed SM-6 active seeker. The active seeker autonomously acquired and engaged the target using the ... more Russian Military Strength To Drop To One Million By 2013 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 01, 2008The Russian armed forces will be slimmed down to 1 million personnel by 2013, three years earlier than previously planned, the defense minister said Monday. "We plan to do this by 2013," Anatoly Serdyukov said after meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev. He said that under the previously approved plan, the troop numbers were to have gone down to 1,100,000 personnel by 2011 and to ... more Raytheon Participates In Key Satellite Payload Trade Study 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Jul 01, 2008Raytheon has successfully completed a key satellite payload trade study with Northrop Grumman, the prime contractor for the Space Tracking and Surveillance System. Results of the study may be used to enhance the performance of follow-on satellites, improving their capacity to provide timely midcourse tracking data and report missile attacks. The Missile Defense Agency plans to develop ... more EU-Russia: Khanty-Mansiysk Engagement 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 01, 2008The European Union (EU) and Russia have been so slow in starting negotiations on regulating their new relationship that now they will talk about it in Siberia. As we know, Siberia is a land of opportunity. On June 26-27, the EU-Russia summit in Khanty-Mansiysk is expected to produce a decision on the start of negotiations on a new strategic cooperation agreement. The negotiations themselves ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jun 30, 2008 The suppression of violence and the reduction in U.S. casualties in Iraq over the past year and a half was not U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker's or U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus' accomplishment. It was achieved by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Even worse, the much celebrated "cash for cooperation policy" implemented by Petraeus in the spring of 2007, which currently pays 90,000 of Iraq's ... more ORNL Demonstrates Super-Sensitive Explosives Detector 
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Jul 01, 2008Using a laser and a device that converts reflected light into sound, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can detect explosives at distances exceeding 20 yards. The method is a variation of photoacoustic spectroscopy but overcomes a number of problems associated with this technique originally demonstrated by Alexander Graham Bell in the late 1880s. ... more New changes at top Iran security body: report 
Tehran (AFP) June 30, 2008Iran has made new changes at its Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), which looks after negotiations with the West in the nuclear crisis, the Mehr news agency reported on Monday. Javad Vaeedi has been replaced as the council's deputy head in charge of international affairs by Ali Bagheri, who was previously the foreign ministry's director general for North and Central European affairs. ... more Lockheed Gets Air Force Deal For Joint Air-To-Surface Standoff Missile Production 
Orlando, FL (SPX) Jul 01, 2008Lockheed Martin has received a U.S. Air Force contract valued at $107 million for a seventh production lot of the JASSM cruise missile. The contract award will bring total contracted quantities of the cruise missile to 1,053. The contract is for procurement of 111 JASSM production missiles, along with systems engineering and flight test support. In recent flight tests on the B-52 and ... more Indian PM hopes to rally support for nuclear deal: report 
New Delhi (AFP) June 30, 2008India's prime minister promised Monday to bring a nuclear pact with the US before parliament before going ahead with the deal that is fiercely opposed by his communist allies, a report said. In a conciliatory move, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh conceded there were "concerns" about the pact and pledged to bring the final text "to parliament before I proceed to operationalise (the deal)," the ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Jul 01, 2008Following the extremely hot weather conditions hitting Europe, Norway experienced its biggest forest fire in the last half century earlier this month. Envisat satellite images were used in the fire's aftermath to get an overview of the damaged area for authorities and insurance companies. Extreme heat, dry conditions and strong winds quickly spread the fire in the cities of Mykland and ... more US 'won't allow' Iran to shut key Gulf oil route 
Manama (AFP) June 30, 2008The commander of the US navy's Fifth Fleet warned on Monday that the United States will not allow Iran to shut the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf sea lane through which much of the world's oil is supplied. "They will not close it... They will not be allowed to close it," Vice-Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff told a press conference in Bahrain, where the Fifth Fleet is based. His remarks followed ... more Oxygen Ions For Fuel Cells Get Loose At Lower Temperatures 
Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Jul 01, 2008Seeking to understand a new fuel cell material, a research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, has uncovered a novel structure that moves oxygen ions through the cell at substantially lower temperatures than previously thought possible. The finding announced this month in Nature Materials may be key ... more Quantum computing in semiconductors doable 
West Lafayette, Ind. (UPI) Jun 30, 2008 U.S. physicists say the odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon chip may lead to the possibility of achieving quantum computing in semiconductors. Purdue University researchers say they've created a hybrid molecule in which its quantum state can be intentionally manipulated -- a required step in the building of quantum computers. "Up to now large-scale quantum ... more Analysis: KRG explains oil deal breakdown 
Erbil, Iraq (UPI) Jun 30, 2008 The contracts have not been published, but Ashti Hawrami, Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government natural resources minister, insists everything needed to know about what's in the dozens of contracts signed between the KRG and international oil companies is in the public domain. In a recent interview with United Press International from his office in Erbil, the capital of the KRG, Hawrami ... more
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