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Anti Missile Showdown Building Between East And West
Moscow (UPI) Sep 5, 2008 The year 2008 has been the most productive for American missile shield plans since President Ronald Reagan launched his famed Strategic Defense Initiative in the 1980s. But the 1980s are also remembered for an unprecedented level of military confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. On Aug. 20 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed a U.S.-Polish agreement ... more US to de-list NKorea 'immediately' if accepts nuke verification: Hill 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 6, 2008The United States will take North Korea off its terror list "immediately" if it can agree a way to verify its nuclear facilities, top envoy Christopher Hill said Saturday. The renewed pledge followed a flurry of meetings here after North Korea said it had stopped dismantling its Yongbyon nuclear reactor and started taking equipment back to the site. "I want to stress that we're not ... more US rearming Georgia under guise of aid: Medvedev 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 6, 2008The United States is rearming Georgia under the guise of humanitarian assistance, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev charged on Saturday, following the arrival in Georgia of US warships laden with aid. "The rearming of the Georgian regime is continuing, including under the guise of humanitarian assistance. They've sent a whole fleet to provide humanitarian assistance," Medvedev told officials ... more The Rules Of Contract Based Warfare 
Washington (UPI) Sep 5, 2008 One of the most common criticisms about private security contractors is that there are insufficient rules governing their actions. But the truth is, there is and always has been a way to ensure that contractors act the way the client, as in the U.S. government or other private sector firms, wants. And that is to simply write it into the contract. And now, we have documentary ... more Cache By Cache Baghdad Being Disarmed By US Forces 
Baghdad (UPI) Sep 5, 2008 Continuing sweeps and targeted raids by U.S. and Iraqi forces for extremists' weaponry in northeast Baghdad are steadily chipping away at enemy munitions stores and hobbling attack capabilities, U.S. military officials say. From May to August Iraqi Security Forces, including National Police units, confiscated a mountain of weaponry in northeastern Baghdad from gunmen of anti-American ... more |
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Tehran (AFP) Sept 6, 2008Iran on Saturday played down French President Nicolas Sarkozy's warning this week that it risked being attacked by Israel because of its controversial nuclear programme. "This regime (Israel) is not in such a position and does not have the capacity to even think about attacking Iran," government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters. His remarks came after the French president ... more More troops needed in Afghanistan: US commander 
Washington (AFP) Sept 5, 2008A top US commander said Friday he needs more troops to counter growing insurgent violence in Afghanistan amid signs the rebels are preparing for a winter campaign for the first time. "I do believe that the level of significant activities, maybe violence, will be higher than any previous winter since 2002," said Major General Jeffrey Schloesser in a video teleconference from Afghanistan. ... more US may scrap Russia nuclear cooperation next week: official 
Washington (AFP) Sept 5, 2008The United States will likely scrap a US-Russia civilian nuclear cooperation pact next week in response to Moscow's actions in Georgia, a US official said Friday. "It's probably going to happen next week," the State Department official told reporters when asked about the issue. "The president (George W. Bush) has to withdraw the document from Congress. So he needs to take that step, and ... more Missile strike kills civilians on Pakistan-Afghan border: officials 
Miranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 5, 2008Three children and two women were killed when missiles fired by a suspected unmanned US aircraft hit a village on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border Friday in the third such attack in as many days, officials said. The strike hit two houses belonging to tribesmen in North Waziristan's Goorweck Baipali village, 30 kilometres (18 miles) west of the main town of Miranshah, and located right on the ... more Japan defence report warns on Russia 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 4, 2008An increasingly assertive Russia is staging more frequent military drills near Japan, including with nuclear submarines, the defence ministry here warned in a report Friday. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's cabinet approved the annual "white paper" on defence policy, which also reiterated Japan's longstanding unease about China's rapid military buildup and the threat of North Korea. ... more |
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L'Estere, Haiti (AFP) Sept 7, 2008Desperate, starving Haitians trudged through muddy water away from the flooded northern city of Gonaives Sunday, a grim echo of devastation four years ago from Hurricane Jeanne, in which 3,000 died. After a battering from three storms in as many weeks, Haiti's inhabitants despaired at a fourth, Hurricane Ike, which left some 47 dead after clipping the country's northern peninsula Sunday, the ... more China needs 245 bln dlrs to rebuild after quake: official media 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 8, 2008China has raised or allocated just one quarter of the 245 billion dollars needed to rebuild areas devastated by this year's devastating earthquake, state press said Monday. Southwest China's Sichuan province will need 1.67 trillion yuan (245.6 billion dollars) to fund reconstruction efforts following the May 12 quake, provincial vice governor Huang Xiaoxiang said, according to Xinhua news ... more 13 dead or missing in Philippines landslide: officials 
Maco, Philippines (AFP) Sept 6, 2008Six people were killed and at least seven others were missing after a landslide triggered by heavy rains buried houses in the southern Philippines, officials said Saturday. More than 100 residents whose homes were destroyed took refuge in a chapel, while one survivor said there could be many more missing in the town of Maco, in the Compostela Valley. District chairman Jovencio Anquera ... more 600,000 evacuate as Cuba braces for Hurricane Ike 
Havana (AFP) Sept 7, 2008Barely a week after Hurricane Gustav devastated western Cuba, the island was battening down the hatches again Sunday for another killer storm, with more than half a million people evacuating Cuba's northeast coast, officials said. Hurricane Ike, labeled an "extremely dangerous" storm already responsible for at least 20 deaths in heavily flooded Haiti, was on course to barrel into Cuba's ... more Storm-battered Florida gets ready for Ike 
Key West, Florida (AFP) Sept 7, 2008Boarding up windows and battening down everything else, residents of south Florida turned a wary eye to deadly Hurricane Ike Sunday as it tore into the Caribbean. The "extremely dangerous" Category Four storm was set to stampede just south of the Florida Keys on Tuesday with winds near 135 miles (215 kilometers) per hour, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said, prompting a mandatory ... more
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