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US now in the 'end game' in Iraq: Gates
Washington (AFP) Sept 10, 2008The United States is now in the "end game" in Iraq but must move cautiously in drawing down its forces there despite a growing insurgency in Afghanistan, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday. Gates' top military adviser, Admiral Michael Mullen, said he was not convinced that "we're winning it" in Afghanistan and that he had ordered the military to draw up a new strategy that enco ... more Pentagon cancels tanker contest amid 'charged' politics 
Washington (AFP) Sept 10, 2008The Pentagon canceled a 35 billion-dollar competition for a new aerial refueling tanker Wednesday, leaving the politically charged decision for one of its biggest military contracts to a new administration. The announcement was a blow to Northrop Grumman and its European partner EADS, which won the contract earlier this year only to have it successfully challenged by rival Boeing. ... more Thompson Files: Obama, McCain back 'Rummy' 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Sep 10, 2008 U.S. presidential campaigns are so much about posturing that it's easy to miss what's really going on. Take national security policy. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., want you to think they represent diametrically opposed approaches to national security, when in fact they have quite similar views. One of the things they have in common is that neither wants you to ... more Russian strategic bombers in Venezuela for 'training': Chavez 
Caracas (AFP) Sept 10, 2008Two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers were in Venezuela on Wednesday for "training flights," Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said, adding he would be piloting one of the aircraft. "I hope that stings, 'pitiyanquis'," he said, using a derogatory term for Venezuelan opponents who have perceived US sympathies. "What's more, I'm going to take the controls of one of these monsters," boasted ... more Russia threatens to target US sites in Europe 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 10, 2008A top Russian general threatened Wednesday to target planned American missile shield sites in Poland and the Czech Republic with ballistic missiles amid icy US-Russia relations over Georgia. General Nikolai Solovtsov, head of strategic missile forces, said if Washington pushes forward plans to build installations in Central Europe the Kremlin would act to ensure Russia's vast nuclear arsenal ... more |
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Gelendzhik, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 11, 2008Russia's new carrier-based fighters will replace the Su-33 naval fighter in service with the Russian Navy after 2016, a senior military official said on Sunday. The Su-33 (NATO reporting name 'Flanker-D') is a carrier-based multi-role fighter, which can perform a variety of air superiority, fleet defense, air support and reconnaissance missions. The aircraft entered service with the Russia ... more US missile strike in Pakistan killed four Al-Qaeda: official, militant 
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 10, 2008A US missile strike targeting a top Taliban commander in Pakistan's northwest killed four mid-level Al-Qaeda operatives, a security official and a militant source said Wednesday. Monday's strike in North Waziristan failed to kill Jalaluddin Haqqani or his son, Sirajuddin, accused by Afghan and Western forces of orchestrating the ongoing insurgency across the border in Afghanistan. ... more NKorea regime would likely close ranks after Kim: analysts 
Seoul (AFP) Sept 10, 2008North Korea's apparently ailing leader Kim Jong-Il has never publicly nominated a successor, raising the possibility of instability in the impoverished nuclear-armed nation when he dies. Kim, 66, failed to appear at a massive parade Tuesday in Pyongyang for the nation's 60th anniversary. US and Korean officials said he has likely suffered a stroke, possibly sometime in the past two weeks. ... more Analysis: Watchlist flaws recounted 
Washington (UPI) Sep 9, 2008 A House committee Tuesday heard from an unusual witness -- an 8-year-old boy whose name appears on the U.S. government's terrorist watchlist. Lawmakers and officials said James Robinson was just one of tens of thousands of Americans who are repeatedly inconvenienced at airports and border crossings because their name, or one like it, appears on the list, which has burgeoned to contain a ... more Canada's PM affirms 2011 Afghanistan pullout 
Toronto (AFP) Sept 10, 2008The bulk of Canada's troops in Afghanistan will not remain there past a 2011 pullout date set earlier this year, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday. Canadians have no appetite for keeping their soldiers in the war-torn country past the date Parliament set in March, Harper told reporters at a breakfast briefing. "You have to put an end date on these things," Harper was quoted as ... more |
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Xiangfen, China (AFP) Sept 11, 2008Several hundred people believed missing after an industrial landslide engulfed a Chinese town are likely dead, with 128 already confirmed killed, state press said Thursday, citing a senior official. Minister of Work Safety Wang Jun said "several hundred" people are thought buried in the mud and sludge that came cascading down onto the village after a mining waste reservoir burst its banks on ... more Nearly 200 officials punished over China quake relief: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 10, 2008China has received thousands of complaints over misconduct among officials involved in Sichuan earthquake relief work, resulting in the punishment of nearly 200 cadres, state press said Wednesday. Twenty Communist Party officials have been sacked while the other 164 cadres punished received unspecified discplinary measures and "administrative penalties," Xinhua news agency said, citing ... more Cuba reels from battering by two storms 
Havana (AFP) Sept 10, 2008Strong winds and rain threatened to unleash deadly floods and mudslides in Cuba Wednesday a day after Hurricane Ike spread devastation across the island before heading towards the US Gulf Coast. The communist Caribbean nation lifted a state of alert but much of the country remained paralyzed, lacking transport, electricity or drinking water. Winds and rain lashed northwestern areas ... more Startech Environmental Hydrogen Fueled Electricity Powered Up At Tech Center 
Wilton CT (SPX) Sep 11, 2008Startech Environmental has announced that its hydrogen-fueled engine producing electricity is operational and available for demonstrations at Startech's Tech Center in Bristol, Connecticut. Joseph F. Longo, Startech's president, said "The line-up has started for demonstrations for our Customers, Distributors, Sales Representatives and also for the media. They're going to like what they see ... more Global 8 Environmental Technologies Announces Major Wind Project In China 
Orangeville, Canada (SPX) Sep 11, 2008Global 8 Environmental Technologies has reported the signing of a Cooperative Joint Venture Agreement with China Tong Liao Baolong New Energy Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as CTB) to develop Environmental Technology Centers focused on wind energy conversion in the region of Tong Liao City, Inner Mongolia, China. This new joint venture company, to be known as Tong Liao Wind Energy ... more
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