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Russia tests ICBM designed to overcome missile shield
Moscow (AFP) Aug 28, 2008Russia on Thursday said it test-fired an intercontinental missile designed to avoid detection by missile-defence systems, raising the temperature in a tense stand-off with the West over Georgia. The Topol RS-12M intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia and flew 6,000 kilometres (3,700 miles) to hit a target on Kamchatka Peninsula in the ... more Taiwan acquires Harpoon anti-ship missiles 
Taipei (AFP) Aug 28, 2008Taiwan has acquired 60 Harpoon anti-ship missiles from the United States in a boost of its defence against rival China, the defence ministry here said Thursday. The missiles will be used by the air force's F-16 fighter jets, the ministry said, in a 90-million-dollar deal. The sale was announced after Washington affirmed in July that its policy on supplying arms to Taiwan remained ... more Putin assails US over Georgia conflict 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 28, 2008Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused Washington on Thursday of manufacturing the Georgia conflict as tensions mounted with the United States threatening to scrap a nuclear deal in protest at Moscow's actions. Russia tested an inter-continental missile before Putin, the powerful former Kremlin leader who now heads the government, said the US administration had a hand in the five-day ... more NKorea rejects key verification test in nuke dispute: official 
Seoul (AFP) Aug 28, 2008The latest deadlock over North Korea's nuclear disarmament will be hard to break because it involves a key test of how much bomb-making plutonium has been produced, a South Korean official said Thursday. The senior official gave details of the dispute which led the North to announce on Tuesday that it has stopped work to disable its nuclear plants. The US and the North cannot agree on ... more Packing A Punch With The T-72 Part One 
Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2008 The effective use of decades-old Russian T-72 Main Battle Tanks in the brief Georgia conflict again shows how supposedly obsolete weapons can still play a potent and even decisive role in modern war. The Russian army did not rely exclusively on its 30-year-old T-72s. State-of-the-art T-90 Main Battle Tanks were also identified during Russia's brief but highly effective five-day drive in ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Aug 28, 2008The White House said Thursday that it was considering scrapping a US-Russia civilian nuclear cooperation pact in response to Moscow's actions in Georgia. "I don't think there's anything to announce yet, but I know that that is under discussion," spokeswoman Dana Perino said when asked whether Washington might drop the May 6 accord over the conflict in the former Soviet republic. ... more NATO denies Black Sea naval build-up 
Brussels (AFP) Aug 28, 2008NATO rebuffed Thursday Russian accusations that it was building up naval forces in the Black Sea, as the waters became a new source of tensions linked to the conflict in Georgia. "There is no NATO naval build up in the Black Sea as Russian authorities are claiming in the media," alliance spokeswoman Carmen Romero said, after Moscow warned that it would respond. The alliance said that ... more Analysis: Azerbaijan loses in Ossetia 
Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2008 If the five-day Georgian-Russian conflict proved nothing else, it shattered the complacency of Western investors who believed that Georgia offered a reliable route for the transit of Caspian energy, as well as the naive beliefs of Bush administration officials, who, while chanting "Happiness is multiple pipelines," schemed that any such corridors would bypass both Russia and Iran. ... more Analysis: Caucasus crisis intensifies 
Berlin (UPI) Aug 28, 2008 The crisis over Georgia intensifies, with the European Union for the first time mulling sanctions against Russia after Moscow recognized the Georgian breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states. Observers predict a period of icy East-West relations. Just days before an extraordinary EU summit on the Caucasus crisis, EU leaders are issuing harsher words in the ... more BMD Games And The Caucasus Crisis Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Aug 28, 2008 On Aug. 14 Poland and the United States signed an agreement on the deployment of 10 ground-based missile interceptors on Polish territory. The timing of the event leaves little doubt that it is linked with the recent conflict in the Caucasus. Like Washington, Warsaw unreservedly backed the former Soviet republic of Georgia at all levels, and the Polish government eventually agreed to ... more |
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Kabul (AFP) Aug 28, 2008The Afghan army Thursday took over extra responsibilities for security in the capital from NATO-led forces, but authorities kept the details under wraps on the largely symbolic move. The Afghan defence ministry had announced its army would take responsibility for Kabul on August 28 in the first stage of a process that would eventually see international troops relinquish command of the entire ... more China rules out Taiwan joining UN agencies 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 28, 2008China on Thursday ruled out Taiwan joining agencies of the United Nations, frustrating hopes that its stance might soften after the island elected a more China-friendly president earlier this year. Taiwan this month launched a bid to join the 16 UN Specialised Agencies instead of seeking membership of the world body itself, but the Chinese foreign ministry said it would not accept the ... more Changing The World, One Student At A Time 
Hampton VA (SPX) Aug 28, 2008Can we put some of the world's biggest societal problems - like global warming, disaster management and public health - into the hands of students? For NASA's DEVELOP student internship program team the answer is a definitive "Yes!" The DEVELOP program celebrates its tenth anniversary this summer. For 10 years the program has pushed the envelope of the traditional summer internship ... more China hails three-billion-dollar oil deal with Iraq 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 28, 2008China hailed Thursday a three-billion-dollar oil agreement with Iraq as a win for both nations, as it sought to reassure the rest of the world that it should not be concerned by the deal. Becoming the first foreign firm to enter such an agreement since the end of Saddam Hussein's regime, state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) this week won the right to develop the Al-Ahdab oil ... more Oil companies evacuate Gulf workers as Gustav looms 
New York (AFP) Aug 28, 2008British oil group BP and US rivals ConocoPhillips and Shell on Thursday evacuated workers from their energy installations in the Gulf of Mexico, as Tropical Storm Gustav loomed. "We're completing the evacuation of non-essential personnel from offshore platforms," BP said in an automated phone message. "Production is not impacted by the storm." ConocoPhilips said it was evacuating 44 people ... more
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