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Shift in forces to Afghanistan less than requested
Washington (AFP) Sept 9, 2008The modest shift in US forces to Afganistan announced Tuesday by President George W. Bush falls short of his commanders' requests despite signs the seven year-old US-NATO project there is at risk. While conditions have improved in Iraq, Bush admitted that things have not gone so well in Afghanistan, which is being shaken by an increasingly bloody insurgency fueled from safe havens in Pakistan ... more Russia to seek UN arms embargo against Georgia - envoy 
United Nations (AFP) Sept 9, 2008Russia pressed Tuesday for a UN arms embargo against Georgia as a US team prepared to travel to Tbilisi to assess the needs of its military, which was routed in a Russian blitzkrieg for control of South Ossetia. "It is in everybody's interest to have an arms embargo against Georgia," Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told reporters after he introduced a draft resolution in the UN ... more Rice makes 'full-court press' to win US approval of nuke deal 
Washington (AFP) Sept 9, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has launched a "full-court press" to win passage in Congress of a landmark US-India civilian nuclear cooperation deal before January, her spokesman said Tuesday. In a flurry of contacts members of the US Congress, Rice is speaking to key lawmakers by telephone and meeting others in person, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters. ... more Pentagon set on mission to rebuild Georgian military 
Washington (AFP) Sept 9, 2008The Pentagon said Tuesday it was sending a team to Georgia this week to assess needs for rebuilding its military, emphasizing that Tbilisi must be capable of deterring any new Russian attack. "The Department of Defense is sending an assessment team to Tbilisi later this week to help us begin to consider carefully Georgia's legitimate needs and our response," said Under Secretary of Defense ... more Afghan elder offers to open graves to prove civilian deaths 
Kabul (AFP) Sept 9, 2008A tribal elder offered Tuesday to allow graves to be opened of people killed in US air strikes in western Afghanistan nearly three weeks ago to prove that most were civilians, many of them children. Afghan government and UN investigations have backed local claims that more than 90 people were killed in the August 22 strikes but the US-led coalition has said only seven to five civilians were ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Sep 9, 2008 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was not put off by the belligerent rhetoric used by officials of the former Soviet republic of Georgia who openly threatened to solve the country's territorial disputes by force. NATO countries and their allies in recent months have spared no effort or money to equip, support and train the Georgian army. We all know what happened next. ... more North Korea moves toward restarting reactor: US 
Washington (AFP) Sept 8, 2008North Korea has taken steps toward restarting the nuclear reactor it began disabling under an international deal, but it is probably nowhere near being operational, a US official said Monday. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters he could not confirm news reports that North Korea had broken seals placed by the International Atomic Energy on equipment at its Yongbyon ... more NKorea's Kim may have suffered stroke: US intelligence 
Seoul (AFP) Sept 10, 2008North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il failed to appear Tuesday at a massive parade marking the communist country's 60th anniversary and a US intelligence official said he may have suffered a stroke. The 66-year-old, who is known to suffer from diabetes and heart problems, was absent from the parade of reserve military forces, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency, which monitored North ... more NKorea to stage massive parade to mark anniversary 
Seoul (AFP) Sept 9, 2008North Korea marked its 60th anniversary Tuesday, trumpeting the success of its socialist system despite acute food shortages, a foundering economy and a deadlocked aid-for-disarmament nuclear deal. The republic, virtually the last outpost of Cold War-era communism, heaped praise on leader Kim Jong-Il as "a great man without parallel" as South Korean media reports sparked renewed speculation ... more GD Awarded Contract For M1A1 Abrams Tank Upgrades 
Sterling Heights MI (SPX) Sep 10, 2008The U.S. Army TACOM Lifecycle Management Command has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, a $34 million delivery order for 30 M1A1 Abrams Integrated Management (AIM) main battle tanks. The contract includes an option for 30 additional AIM vehicles, bringing the total potential award value to $69.5 million. AIM is a joint effort to refurbish M1A1 ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 9, 2008At least 56 people were killed after an industrial mudslide swept through a small mining town in northern China, state media said late Tuesday, updating an earlier government toll of 34 dead. A market, homes and a three-storey building were buried under tonnes of sludge when the disaster hit Taoshi township, Shanxi province, on Monday, Xinhua news agency said, adding 35 people were also ... more US renews offer to send aid team to Cuba after Hurricane Ike 
Washington (AFP) Sept 9, 2008The United States on Tuesday renewed an offer to send experts to Cuba to see how much more disaster US aid is needed to an island hit by yet another hurricane, the State Department said. The State Department said Cuba declined its offer last week to send a team to assess the damage from Hurricane Gustav on August 30, but decided to renew the offer after Hurricane Ike hit. In the meantime ... more Judge Hanna threatens storm detainees with watery death 
Gonaives, Haiti (AFP) Sept 9, 2008Screams came from the darkened cells, and desperate hands poked through the bars of the police jail where inmates nearly suffered death by drowning with Tropical Storm Hanna as their judge. "If you work for human rights, give us food, we are hungry," shouted one voice inside the jail in the stricken Haitian city of Gonaives where four major storms in four weeks have killed hundreds of people ... more China worried of financial contagion via Hong Kong 
Washington (AFP) Sept 8, 2008Beijing is worried that an overly liberal financial system in Hong Kong could invite financial contagion into China and disrupt critical economic growth, a government economist said Monday. "China today has a very unique situation -- it is one country with two financial systems -- the Hong Kong system is very open, very liberal, very efficient, very modern" compared with the Chinese system a ... more China central bank says Fannie, Freddie takeover is 'positive' 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 9, 2008China's central bank sees the US takeover of struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as "positive", given the billions of dollars of exposure of Chinese banks, state media said Tuesday. "Chinese investors have a certain amount of exposure" to the companies, central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said, according to the China Daily. "I think they welcome the new policy, but we ... more
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