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Russia says will complete Iran nuclear plant
Tehran (AFP) Sept 2, 2008The Russian company building Iran's first nuclear power plant has renewed a commitment to complete the project, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday. Russia, one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, is building the plant at Bushehr on the Gulf coast of Iran despite a long-running standoff over Tehran's controversial nuclear drive. A visiting delegation ... more Russia-NATO: Return Of The Great Game 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 03, 2008After the breakup of the Soviet Union, many intellectuals in Russia and the West announced "the end of history." It seemed that the United States' complete domination of the world was not disputed by anyone. The subsequent decade, during which Russia lost its foreign policy positions, and its former satellites and even provinces became U.S. and NATO allies, seemed to have buttressed this ... more Outside View: Russia's war -- Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 2, 2008 Russia has completed its "peace enforcement" operation on the territory of South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Georgia. The country's political leaders and military commanders have announced that they are withdrawing troops from the conflict zone. It is still too soon to speak about an end to the conflict between the former Soviet republic of Georgia and the unrecognized republics of South ... more Outside View: BMD dilemmas -- Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 2, 2008 An analysis of America's global missile defense system shows that Washington is deploying its elements primarily in Eastern Europe rather than Japan, other Asian countries or Australia. This is probably because Washington does not want to irritate China, which could respond by stepping up the development of its own missile program and increasing the number of intercontinental ballistic ... more USAF/LockMart Team Achieves Major Milestone On First SBIRS HEO System 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2008Lockheed Martin has announced that the U.S. Air Force has certified readiness for dedicated operational utility evaluation and trial period operations of the first Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO-1) payload and associated ground system in preparation for use by the warfighter. SBIRS is designed to provide early warning of missile launches, and simultaneously ... more |
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Kabul (AFP) Sept 2, 2008The US-led coalition in Afghanistan said Tuesday that its investigation into a controversial air strike alleged to have killed 90 civilians has found that only seven non-combatants died. The force defended its decision to strike the target in the western province of Herat last month, saying a known Taliban commander was in the area. A government commission which investigated the incident ... more Thousands of NKorea children face hardship in China: activists 
Seoul (AFP) Sept 2, 2008A newly formed rights group said Tuesday it would launch a campaign to help thousands of North Korean children forced into begging or prostitution in northeast China. The Seoul-based North Korean Human Rights Campaign Organising Committee said it was concerned about orphan refugees and about "stateless" children born to North Korean refugee women and Chinese men. The number of orphans ... more Taliban admit kidnapping Chinese engineers in Pakistan 
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Pakistani Taliban militants said Tuesday they had kidnapped two Chinese telecoms engineers and their entourage and would soon issue a list of demands. The engineers went missing along with their local driver and a security guard four days ago near the Afghan border where they had been checking an installation. "Our men have kidnapped the two Chinese engineers and they are currently in ... more Syria warns of 'catastrophic' effect of any Israeli strike on Iran 
Paris (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned Tuesday that an attack by Israel on Iran would have catastrophic consequences for the entire world. "We think that Israel could try to launch attacks against Iran, even against Lebanon or Syria," he said in an interview with France 3 television. "Any attack by Israel or by anyone else will have catastrophic results not only on the region but on the ... more Outside View: America's nuclear maneuver 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 2, 2008 Quoting anonymous sources, the Western media are making a stir by saying the United States is ready to freeze the intergovernmental agreement with Russia for peaceful nuclear cooperation because of the Georgian conflict. The Financial Times called the agreement one of the obvious victims of the tensions between Washington and Moscow, which have rarely been so high since the end of the ... more |
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New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Emergency workers hustled on Tuesday to revive a hurricane-battered New Orleans area nearly devoid of power and people, as evacuees waiting in far-away shelters clamored to return home. Police blockaded main routes into town as residents tried to get back to their homes and shops, one day after Hurricane Gustav crashed into Louisiana. Hospital workers, non-critical city employees and ... more Hanna floods Haitain city where 3,000 died four years ago 
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Ten people were killed as Tropical Storm Hanna socked the north of Haiti Tuesday and officials called for help amid fears of a disaster like the one Tropical Storm Jeanne sparked four years ago. Haiti was still reeling after Hurricane Gustav killed 77 people and left eight others missing after barreling by the south of the hemisphere's most impoverished country only a week ago. ... more 15 drown as Indian flood relief boats capsize: officials 
Patna, India (AFP) Sept 2, 2008At least 15 people drowned overnight in two separate incidents in India's flood-ravaged northeast, an official said Tuesday. The dead were on two overcrowded rescue boats that capsized while ferrying people to relief camps and included children washed away by strong currents, said Bihar state's disaster management secretary Prataya Amrit. The boats were carrying people away from flooding ... more As Gustav fades, oil companies work to restore operations 
New York (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Largely spared by Hurricane Gustav, oil companies on Tuesday tallied the damage to their Gulf of Mexico installations, from offshore rigs and drilling to coastal refineries. Even under the most optimistic scenarios, operations were not expected to return to normal before several days, but the markets focused on relief that a crisis had been skirted, pushing crude oil below 105 dollars a ... more Hurricane threat to Gulf energy hub rattles US economy 
Washington (AFP) Sept 1, 2008With the US oil-refining industry heavily concentrated along the northern Gulf of Mexico coastline, a strategic sector of the economy is perennially vulnerable to the threat of hurricanes. Hurricane Gustav, which swept ashore at around midday southwest of New Orleans, will result in up to 10 billion dollars (8.22 billion euros) in insured losses and a long-term five percent cut to oil and ... more
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