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Iran nuclear work will go on: Ahmadinejad
Tehran (AFP) Aug 11, 2008President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday told visiting Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika that Tehran will press on with its nuclear programme, despite the risk of fresh sanctions. "They've deeply understood that Iran's peaceful nuclear programme will never be halted and of course they have no choice but to keep on talking to Iran," Ahmadinejad was quoted as telling Bouteflika. ... more Al-Qaeda At 20: How Many Groups Are We Really Fighting 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 12, 2008The world first heard about al-Qaeda ten years ago, on August 7, 1998, when two explosions ripped through the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 223. Al-Qaeda was set up a decade earlier, on August 11, 1988. Unlike much of the later history of the organization we know this for sure, because both CIA and Pakistani intelligence service agents took part in the "founding" meeting ... more What Will Be The Outcome Of The Georgian-Ossetian War 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 12, 2008The very real possibility of full-scale war between Georgia and South Ossetia raises questions about its possible outcome. At present, the Georgian armed forces have more than 30,000 men, including 20,000 ground forces. They are equipped with more than 200 tanks, including 40 T-55s and 165 T-72s, which are currently being upgraded. Apart from tanks, the ground forces have 200 combat armored ... more US-led force kills eight civilians in Afghanistan 
Kabul (AFP) Aug 12, 2008Eight Afghan civilians held hostage by Taliban militants were killed in an air strike by US-led troops during a battle that also left 25 rebel fighters dead, the force said Monday. Separately, a suicide bomber targeting a NATO convoy in the capital Kabul killed three people, while a Latvian soldier died in a roadside bomb blast in the relatively peaceful north of the country. The eight ... more Analysis: Is war in the (Gulf) air? 
Washington (UPI) Aug 11, 2008 No sooner had Operation Brimstone ended -- a mega joint U.S., British and French naval exercise held in the Atlantic Ocean where the allies practiced enforcing an eventual blockade on Iran -- when, according to numerous reports, the armada set sail for the Gulf waters -- and a potential showdown with Iran. The move comes shortly after the European Union issued a decree Friday authorizing ... more |
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Damascus (AFP) Aug 10, 2008Syria on Sunday ruled out the UN atomic watchdog making a second inspection of a contested site bombed by Israel last year and alleged by the United States to be the location of a nuclear facility. The official news agency SANA quoted a foreign ministry source as saying Syria had agreed with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the site should be visited "just one time". ... more Russian jets stage Georgia raids as Moscow-US tensions worsen 
Tbilisi (AFP) Aug 11, 2008Advancing Russian forces on Monday took a key Georgian city and the country's armed forces retrenched to defend the capital, a top Georgian official said. Russian troops occupied Gori, close to the breakaway region of South Ossetia, Georgia's National Security Council secretary Alexander Lomaia told AFP amid growing international calls for a halt to the fighting which has left hundreds ... more ATK And BAE Team For JATAS Program 
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Aug 12, 2008Alliant Techsystems and BAE Systems have teamed to compete for the upcoming U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Joint Allied Threat Awareness System (JATAS) program. JATAS is the Navy's planned next-generation missile warning system that will provide protection for rotary-wing aircraft from infrared guided missiles. "ATK and BAE Systems have been credited for saving dozens of aircraft and the ... more Outside View: Georgia-Russia war balance 
Moscow (UPI) Aug 11, 2008 The very real possibility of full-scale war between the former Soviet republic of Georgia in the Caucasus and its secessionist breakaway region of South Ossetia raises questions about its possible outcome. At present, the Georgian armed forces have more than 30,000 men, including 20,000 ground forces. They are equipped with more than 200 tanks, including 40 Soviet-built T-55 Main ... more Commentary: Caucasus cauldron 
Washington (UPI) Aug 11, 2008 For several years after the implosion of the Soviet empire and the end of the Cold War, the United States assured Boris Yeltsin and his successor, Vladimir Putin, that Washington was not interested in expanding NATO's writ to include former Soviet republics. That assurance was ignored when the three Baltic states were voted in to the NATO club. The United States then pushed hard to ... more |
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Taipei (AFP) Aug 11, 2008Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou Monday said his administration would push ahead with plans to purchase arms from ally Washington while trying to improve ties with traditional rival China. Ma, who was elected in a landslide in March and took office in May, has pledged better relations with China. The two sides launched regular direct flights for the first time in nearly six decades last month. ... more Walker's World: $200 oil is coming 
Washington (UPI) Aug 11, 2008 Oil prices may be dropping like a stone, but it won't last, according to one of the West's top experts on the industry, who is forecasting "an oil supply crunch" in or around the year 2013 when the price could soar as high as $200 a barrel. The problem will come "not because of below-ground resource constraints but because of inadequate investment by international oil companies and ... more Trade surplus shrinks, inflation risk returns in China 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 11, 2008China's trade surplus has shrunk and factory gate inflation has soared to a 12-year high, official data showed Monday, as the country's stock market plunged 9.4 percent in two days. The benchmark stock index closed below the psychologically important 2,500 mark, reflecting serious concerns about where the economy was heading, observers said. "Investors were jittery over the economy ... more Wind Energy Development Path Cleared In South Texas 
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 12, 2008Babcock and Brown announced that a federal court in Texas dismissed a final lawsuit, clearing the path to bring wind energy to South Texas. Babcock and Brown's wind farm on the Texas Gulf Coast, which will provide enough clean and renewable energy to power 80,000 Texas homes, will be completed and operational later this year. The wind farm is located on the property of the Kenedy Memorial ... more PSE Adds Turbines At Hopkins Ridge Wind Facility 
Bellevue WA (SPX) Aug 12, 2008Puget Sound Energy's (PSE) Hopkins Ridge Wind Facility continues to build on the success of generating clean, renewable energy with the addition of four new wind turbines. The expansion, which brings the total number of turbines at the Dayton, Columbia County facility to 87, is another step for the utility and the region toward a sustainable energy future. "Wind power and southeastern ... more
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