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Up to 70 rebels killed in Afghanistan
Khost, Afghanistan (AFP) July 27, 2008Up to 70 insurgents were killed in Afghanistan early Sunday when helicopter gunships and ground fighting repulsed an attack by about 100 rebels near the Pakistan border, officials said. It was the latest in a series of major battles as violence linked to a Taliban-led insurgency has picked up in recent weeks with several deadly extremist attacks and military operations under way against the ... more Turkey renews air strikes on Kurdish rebels inside Iraq: military 
Ankara (AFP) July 27, 2008Turkey carried out fresh air strikes in the early hours of Sunday on Kurdish rebel positions inside northern Iraq, the Turkish military announced. Twelve targets linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party in the Kandil mountains - where the rebels have their headquarters -- were targeted, the military said on its website. There was no word of casualties in the air raids that began at m ... more Iran has up to 6,000 enrichment centrifuges: Ahmadinejad 
Tehran (AFP) July 26, 2008President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that Iran has boosted the number of uranium-enriching centrifuges to up to 6,000, in an expansion of its nuclear drive that defies international calls for a freeze. "Today they (the West) have agreed that the existing 5,000 to 6,000 centrifuges do not increase and that there is no problem if this number of centrifuges work," Ahmadinejad was quot ... more India to train US 'Green Berets' in jungle warfare 
Guwahati, India (AFP) July 26, 2008A contingent of US Special Forces, or Green Berets, will team up with Indian soldiers to train in jungle warfare, officials said on Saturday. The 30-member US team will train in the army-run Counter-Insurgency Jungle Warfare School from August 2 in the rebellion-torn northeastern state of Mizoram, they said. "The training schedule involves methodologies to tackle terrorism and low intens ... more "Dinosaur eel" points to body armour of the future 
Paris (AFP) July 27, 2008An extraordinary fish that inhabits muddy pools in West Africa and whose lineage can be traced back 96 million years could be the model for light, bomb-proof body armour for the soldiers of the future. So say Pentagon-backed scientists who have pored over the scales of Polypterus senegalus, also called the Senegal bichir or the dinosaur eel. Long and skinny and of ancient heritage, the 4 ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jul 25, 2008 For a moment there it looked like we might not have Blackwater to kick around anymore. The company's contract with the U.S. State Department has been at the center of a lot of unflattering media attention since a Baghdad shooting incident last year in which local authorities say innocent civilians and Iraqi police personnel were fired on and killed. I thought these armed personn ... more Analysis: Russia behind Georgia cyberwar? 
Washington (UPI) Jul 25, 2008 The Web site of President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia was brought down this week by hackers apparently based in Russia, the latest in a string of cyberattacks directed against neighboring countries experiencing friction with the newly resurgent bear. The attack was monitored by several U.S. Internet watch operations, including the center run by the Department of Homeland Security kn ... more Probe of irregularities in defense contract audits: Pentagon 
Washington (AFP) July 25, 2008A Pentagon agency that oversees billions of dollars in defense contracts said Friday it has asked for a review of allegations that supervisors sought to pressure auditors to favor major contractors. The Defense Contract Audit Agency took the step following a scathing report by a congressional audit agency this week that found numerous irregularities in a review of 14 DCAA audits betwe ... more Russia launches military satellite: report 
Moscow (AFP) July 26, 2008Russia successfully launched Saturday a military satellite from its northwest Plessetsk cosmodrome, Interfax news agency reported. The Kosmos satellite, which has a seven-year lifespan and is equipped with Russia's latest space technology, was propelled into orbit by a Soyuz-2 rocket, spokesman Alexei Zolotukhin said. ... more The Indian Nuclear Tango Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Jul 25, 2008 Considering the packed congressional schedule, U.S. legislators may not examine the U.S.-Indian agreement before the November presidential elections. The new White House could revise the agreement because of allegations the United States is giving too much to India and demanding too little in return. Meanwhile, the Communist Party of India is telling the national ... more |
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Hachinohe, Japan (AFP) July 25, 2008Residents of northern Japan said Friday that careful preparations and lessons learned from previous earthquakes limited the damage caused by the latest major tremor to hit the region. The earthquake-prone country is constantly preparing for the dreaded "Big One" and has built an infrastructure designed to withstand big tremors, which in much of the world would cause a large number of casualt ... more Tiananmen massacre photo slips into China paper 
Beijing (AFP) July 25, 2008A leading state-run Chinese newspaper has published a photo of victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, breaking a long-standing order for China's media to avoid the highly sensitive issue. The photo, showing bloodied victims being rushed away on bicycles, was published in the Beijing News on Thursday as part of the interview of Liu Xiangcheng, a photographer who had documented changes in Chi ... more Workers struggle to clean up oil spill on Mississippi 
Washington (AFP) July 26, 2008The US Coast Guard and clean-up crews were struggling Saturday to rid the Mississippi River of hundreds of thousands of gallons of spilled fuel oil and unclog a backup of commercial traffic. Nearly 800 people in several oil removal operations were busy containing the spill with booms and removing what they could from the water, as a limited number of vessels were being allowed ... more Scientists work on garbage for gas 
New York (UPI) Jul 24, 2008 U.S. companies are racing to bring gasoline made from wood chips, garbage, crop waste and other materials to market. The U.S. government is offering grants and subsidies to get the plants started in an effort to meet a mandated 36 billion gallons of biofuels a year by 2022, The New York Times said Thursday. Plans for about 28 different plants are in various stages of development. ... more Russia And China May Co-Design New Passenger Plane 
Farnborough, UK (RIA Novosti) Jul 28, 2008Russia may launch a joint venture with China to continue the development of a new passenger airliner, MS-21, the head of a Russian state-run aviation corporation said on Monday. "We will come to a decision with Chinese manufacturers next year on the possibility of setting up a joint venture to design a new mid-range passenger aircraft, MS-21," Alexei Fyodorov, the CEO of the United Aircraft ... more
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