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ISAF requests more spy planes from NATO
Brussels (AFP) July 10, 2008NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan has asked headquarters for more AWACS radar planes to support its operations against the Taliban, an official said Thursday. "ISAF has sent a letter to the supreme commander in Europe (US General Bantz John Craddock), to allied headquarters, they are considering the request," the NATO official told AFP. The official did not ... more Real Or Not Iranian Missile Tests Must Stop Demands US 
Washington (AFP) July 10, 2008The United States Thursday cast doubt on the strength of Iran's claims to have test-fired a whole barrage of missiles over two days, and urged Tehran to cease immediately all provocative acts. Iran appeared to have fired only a single missile on Thursday, not a second round of missiles as Iranian media reported, and seven on Wednesday not nine as claimed, a senior defense official told AFP. ... more Indian govt seeks allies ahead of confidence vote 
New Delhi (AFP) July 11, 2008India's embattled coalition government was grappling for support Thursday to ensure it can win a confidence vote sparked by a withdrawal of support from left-wing parties, officials said. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Congress-led administration lost its majority after a bloc of leftists and communists stopped backing the government because of their staunch opposition to a nuclear deal with ... more Analysis: U.S., Czech strike missile deal 
Berlin (UPI) Jul 9, 2008 The Czech Republic has agreed to host part of a U.S. missile defense system within its borders, despite serious opposition by its former Cold War master, Russia. Officials in Moscow say the project undermines, rather than improves, European energy security. On Tuesday, Washington took the first of at least two steps: After meeting her Czech counterpart, Karel Schwarzenberg, in Prague ... more Second GCS Shelter Delivered To BAE For Herti UAV Programme 
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Jul 11, 2008A second specialist ground control station (GCS) has been delivered to BAE Systems Integrated System Technologies (Insyte) for the HERTI (High Endurance Rapid Technology Insertion) Unmanned Air System (UAS) Programme by Marshall SV, the Cambridge based specialist vehicle and shelter manufacturer. Marshall Specialist Vehicles (MSV) delivered the 14 foot shelter on time, to cost and specific ... more |
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Washington (AFP) July 10, 2008The White House on Thursday downplayed the risk of war between Iran and the United States, despite Iranian missile tests and some tough talk by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Asked about an apparent contradiction between Rice's comment about tightening US security in the Gulf and those made earlier by Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday, Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman ... more The Nuclear Cycle And The Cycle Of Hostility Part Three 
Washington (UPI) Jul 10, 2008 The recommendation of a State Department advisory panel that the United States band together with other existing nuclear powers to build safeguards into the growing market for reactor capacity risks fanning nationalistic hostility in the Third World to global anti-proliferation regimes, say some critics. A task force of the International Security Advisory Board -- chaired by former ... more Rice warns Iran: US will defend Israel 
Tbilisi (AFP) July 10, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran on Friday that Washington had beefed up its security presence in the Gulf and would not hesitate to defend Israel and other allies in the region. "We will defend American interests and the interests of our allies," Rice said, answering a question on an Iranian threat to "set fire" to Israel. "We take very strongly our obligation to ... more NKorea returns to nuclear disarmament talks 
Beijing (AFP) July 11, 2008North Korea returned Thursday to international talks on its nuclear activities after a nine-month break, in what host China hailed as a potential turning point in the disarmament process. Envoys from the six nations involved in the long-running talks gathered in Beijing in an effort to capitalise on recent progress that saw the North finally hand over a declaration of its atomic activities ... more Air Tanker Wars Back To Square One 
Washington (UPI) Jul 10, 2008 The impossible has happened: The U.S. Air Force has decided -- or been told -- to reopen bidding on its $35 billion air tanker contract. The decision marks a dramatic victory for the world's biggest airliner manufacturer, Boeing, which also has provided the USAF with its jet air tankers for almost a half-century. And it is a huge setback for the European Aeronautic Defense and ... more |
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St. Ingbert, Germany (SPX) Jul 11, 2008The term "MRI scan" brings to mind the gigantic, expensive machines that are installed in hospitals. But research scientists have now developed small portable MRI scanners that perform their services in the field: for instance to examine ice cores. Magnetic resonance imaging yields deep insights - into the atomic structure of a biomolecule, for instance, or into the tissues of a patient's ... more UC San Diego Undergraduates Forge New Area Of Bioinformatics 
San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2008A group of undergraduate students from the University of California San Diego have forged a new area of bioinformatics that may improve genomic and proteomic annotations and unlock a collection of stubborn biological mysteries. Their work will be published in the July issue of the journal Genome Research. The new area of bioinformatics is called "comparative proteogenomics," and as the ... more New Insight To Demineralization 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Jul 11, 2008From toothpaste to technology, noncrystalline or amorphous silica is an active ingredient in a myriad of products that we use in our daily lives. As a minor, but essential component of vertebrate bone, an understanding of silica reactivity in physiological environments is crucial to the development of successful biomedical implants and synthetic materials with bone-like properties. ... more Growing pains for G8 club of rich nations 
Toyako, Japan (AFP) July 10, 2008The global economy has changed dramatically since the leaders of the world's major economies first sat down around a table in a French chateau in 1975 to discuss the first oil shock. More than three decades later after the informal club of rich nations was formed, the Group of Eight is accused of lacking legitimacy by critics who say it must reform if it is to survive. But while the G8 ... more Whales And Dolphins Influence New Wind Turbine Design 
Marseille, Spain (SPX) Jul 11, 2008Sea creatures have evolved over millions of years to maximise efficiency of movement through water; humans have been trying to perfect streamlined designs for barely a century. So shouldn't we be taking more notice of the experts? Biologists and engineers from across the US have been doing just that. By studying the flippers, fins and tails of whales and dolphins, these scientists have ... more
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