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Reaper Drops Laser-Guided Bomb On Anti-Iraqi Forces
Joint Base Balad, Iraq (SPX) Aug 27, 2008An MQ-9 Reaper dropped a 500-pound bomb against an anti-Iraqi target Aug. 16 in one of the first weapons engagements for the unmanned aircraft system. The Reaper began flying combat sorties in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom July 18 and joined the MQ-1 Predator as another UAS patrolling the sky to protect coalition forces. The successful airstrike, which destroyed a vehicle-borne ... more Czech, US agree on conditions to site radar: official 
Prague (AFP) Aug 26, 2008The Czech Republic and the United States have reached agreement on the conditions to set up a controversial US anti-missile base in the country, a defence ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. "All major issues have been solved," spokesman Andrej Cirtek told AFP, adding that the centre-right Czech government could be expected to discuss the proposed Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) in ... more US accuses NKorea of violating six-nation nuclear accord 
Washington (AFP) Aug 26, 2008The United States accused North Korea Tuesday of violating a six-nation nuclear accord and maintained it on a terror blacklist, after the hardline communist state defiantly stopped disabling its atomic plants. Washington said North Korea would stay on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list until it agreed to a protocol that could verify a nuclear program declared by Pyongyang in June ahead of ... more NKorea says it halts denuclearisation over row with US 
Seoul (AFP) Aug 26, 2008North Korea said Tuesday it has halted work to disable its plutonium-producing nuclear complex in protest at Washington's failure to remove it from a terrorism blacklist. Authorities are also considering restoring the plants at Yongbyon to their original state, a foreign ministry spokesman told the official (North) Korean Central News Agency. A six-party aid-for-disarmament deal is curre ... more UN team says evidence 90 civilians dead in US-led strikes 
Kabul (AFP) Aug 26, 2008A United Nations team has found "convincing evidence" that 90 civilians, including 60 children, were killed in US-led air strikes last week, the body's representative in Afghanistan said Tuesday. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) human rights team was sent to the western province of Herat after local claims that scores of civilians were killed in Friday's strikes. ... more |
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London (AFP) Aug 26, 2008NATO should not be able to use Russian routes to transit supplies and equipment to Afghanistan because Russia has suspended military co-operation with the Western alliance, the country's ambassador to Kabul argued in an interview published Tuesday. Speaking to The Times from the Afghan capital, Zamir Kabulov said increased tensions between Russia and West over the former's recent assault on ... more Russia To Boost Foreign Military Trade 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 27, 2008Russia plans to increase foreign weapon sales by 8-10% annually over the next three to four years, the country's defense cooperation service said on Monday. "Military-technical cooperation will see a steady increase in arms sales of 8-10% annually over the next three to four years. This is the potential set out in the defense contracts portfolio, and the industry potential," said Vladimir ... more Russia Says Ready To Supply Syria With Defensive Weapons 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 27, 2008Russia is ready to supply Syria with defensive weapons, the Russian foreign minister said on Thursday following a meeting between the two countries leaders in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Russia Wednesday on a two-day visit to discuss bilateral relations and regional developments, in particular the situation in the Middle East and Iraq. ... more Outside View: Zardari to follow Musharraf? 
Manipal, India (UPI) Aug 26, 2008 After Pervez Musharraf himself, the individual who will be most nervous at the resignation of Pakistan's president is the Pakistan People's Party co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari. For it was Musharraf -- admittedly with repeated prodding from U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- who offered Benazir Bhutto's widower amnesty from the numerous corruption cases against him in exchange for his ... more Outside View: NATO's Russia communique 
Moscow (UPI) Aug 26, 2008 The emergency NATO Council session held in Brussels last week at America's request to give Russia its "comeuppance" did not go smoothly. It took the ministers several hours to hammer out the final communique. In the end it turned out to be utterly predictable: The bloc's 26 members decided that they would, after all, live with Russia, but they should talk to it in a tactful but tough ... more |
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Shanghai (AFP) Aug 26, 2008The world's highest sightseeing hall, located on the 100th floor of China's tallest skyscraper, will open to the public on Saturday, local media reported. The hall is 474 metres (1,555 feet) above the ground in the Shanghai World Financial Centre, the Oriental Morning Post reported Tuesday. Sightseers who want a bird's eye view of the city will have to pay 150 yuan (22 dollars) each for ... more Corrupt Chinese officials' lovers to face jail: state press 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 26, 2008Relatives and "secret lovers" of corrupt Chinese officials could face prison under draft legal amendments that target spiralling corruption in the government ranks, state media said Tuesday. Relatives and people who have "intimate relations" with corrupt officials face up to seven years' imprisonment if they abuse the officials' positions to accept bribes or otherwise profit illegally, the ... more China quake refugees still facing uncertain future 
Dujiangyan, China (AFP) Aug 26, 2008More than 100 days after a powerful earthquake devastated much of this region in southwest China, Li Kuilan still faces an uncertain future, having lost her husband and her home. Li is among millions of residents whose lives were destroyed by the May 12 Wenchuan disaster and who were forced to move into hastily-built refugee camps now dotting the quake belt in Sichuan province. She sells ... more Flow Of Oil Through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Resumes 
Baku, Azerbaijan (UPI) Aug 27, 2008Flow of oil through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan to resume Tuesday. Operators for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline said Monday transportation from Azerbaijan to Turkey would return to normal starting Tuesday. BP, the majority shareholder in the BTC pipeline consortium, closed the pipeline Aug. 5 because of a fire at a pumping station in eastern Turkey. Conflict between ... more Why Wind Turbines Can Mean Death For Bats 
Calgary, Canada (SPX) Aug 27, 2008Power-generating wind turbines have long been recognized as a potentially life-threatening hazard for birds. But at most wind facilities, bats actually die in much greater numbers. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology, a Cell Press journal, think they know why. Ninety percent of the bats they examined after death showed signs of internal hemorrhaging consistent with trauma from ... more
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