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Russian Fleet May Go To Mediterranean
Washington (UPI) Sep 15, 2008 is stepping up its rhetoric about redeploying its Black Sea Fleet to the Mediterranean if Ukraine pushes ahead with plans to evict it from its home port base of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula. "Undoubtedly, the withdrawal (of the Black Sea Fleet) from the Crimea will affect Russia's security in the south. New bases in the Mediterranean Sea could make up for the ... more North Korea vows to build up 'war deterrent' 
Seoul (AFP) Sept 16, 2008North Korea on Tuesday renewed criticism of last month's joint US-South Korean military exercise and vowed to strengthen its "war deterrent" in the face of what it called invasion threats. "Reinforcing war deterrent is one hundred times justifiable," said Rodong Sinmun, newspaper of the ruling communist party, in a commentary attacking the war games. The phrase normally refers to its ... more NATO Blocked In The Caucusus Part Two 
Paris (UPI) Sep 16, 2008 If the little former Soviet republic of Georgia on the eastern shore of the Black Sea does not join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, then neither will the much larger and more important former Soviet republic of Ukraine. The accession of the two Black Sea states to the Atlantic alliance was part of the same U.S.-led strategic plan that went up in smoke as soon as Russian troops ... more Iran warns on nuclear cooperation, rattles sabre over Gulf 
Tehran (AFP) Sept 16, 2008Iran warned on Tuesday it will not respond to every adverse claim about its nuclear drive, after a damning report from the UN atomic watchdog left the global community divided about future action. Amid fears that one response might be a US or Israeli strike on Tehran's nuclear programme, a top aide to Iran's supreme leader warned again that Iran could bring oil shipments from the Gulf to a ... more Smiths Detection Launches Portable New Nuclear Threat Detector 
Pine Brook NJ (SPX) Sep 17, 2008Smiths Detection has announced the launch of its HPRID, High Performance Radioisotope Identifier, a next generation handheld device for detecting and identifying highly enriched uranium, plutonium and other radioactive materials. The HPRID was developed specifically to address the limitations of existing technologies by providing an instrument that is more accurate, sensitive and rugged ... more |
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San Jose CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2008Quantum3D has announced that it will serve as a subcontractor to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) on the STAP Boy contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). As the prime contractor, SAIC will leverage Quantum3D's new LibertyVPX High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) system for an advanced deployed radar, Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) ... more Odierno warns on Iraq security as he takes US command 
Camp Victory, Iraq (AFP) Sept 16, 2008US General Raymond Odierno took command of US-led forces in Iraq from David Petraeus on Tuesday, warning that security gains in the country were "fragile and reversible." Petraeus, the general credited with pulling Iraq back from all-out civil war, handed over control of the 146,000-strong force at a ceremony at a former Saddam Hussein-era palace turned US base near Baghdad airport. But ... more Gates in Afghanistan, commander says more troops needed 
Kabul (AFP) Sept 16, 2008The top US commander in Afghanistan said Tuesday he needed more than 10,000 combat troops to fight the insurgency, in addition to those committed last week by US President George W. Bush. David McKiernan, the highest-ranking US general here and commander of the NATO-led force, made the comments to reporters, as he met with US Defense Secretary Robert Gates in the Afghan capital. ... more China says more talks set with India on border row 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 16, 2008Chinese and Indian officials will meet in Beijing this week for the latest round of talks on their decades-old Himalayan border dispute, an official here said on Tuesday. Chinese diplomat Dai Bingguo will hold talks with Indian national security adviser M.K. Narayanan on Thursday and Friday, foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters. India says China occupies 38,000 square ... more Boeing Awarded Contract For Radar Upgrade On Saudi AWACS Fleet 
Seattle WA (SPX) Sep 17, 2008Boeing has been awarded a contract for the initial phase of upgrading the radar on Saudi Arabia's fleet of five E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft. The Foreign Military Sale, not to exceed $42 million, was contracted through the Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. This first phase includes a study to determine which parts are obsolete and no ... more |
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Havana (AFP) Sep 17, 2008Bypassing its trade embargo on communist Cuba, the United States on Tuesday announced approving 250 million dollars in "farm sales" to Havana after Hurricanes Gustav and Ike devastated Cuba's crops. The licenses for agricultural sales, which include food and construction materials, were approved after Ike lashed Cuba a week ago and "wood, a material essential to rebuilding, is included," ... more Residents of flattened Texan towns told to stay away 
Houston, Texas (AFP) Sept 16, 2008Officials in Texas coastal communities flattened by Hurricane Ike begged residents to stay away Tuesday, insisting that it may be months before the area has basic services like clean water. Galveston County administrator Jim Yarbrough said he would resort to "whatever means necessary" to remove some 200 to 300 people still hunkered down on Bolivar Peninsula, a strip of land all but swept ... more Myanmar seeks seeds, fertiliser after Cyclone Nargis: IRRI 
Manila (AFP) Sept 16, 2008Myanmar has sought foreign help for seeds and fertiliser to revive its key rice-growing region after a deadly cyclone earlier this year, the International Rice Research Institute said Tuesday. Cyclone Nargis left an estimated 140,000 people dead or missing when it swept through the Irrawaddy delta in May. The disaster has slashed Myanmar's food crop output by six percent or 1.2 million ... more China landslide death toll raised to 259: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 16, 2008The death toll from a landslide that engulfed a northern Chinese town grew to 259 on Tuesday with the discovery of five more bodies, state-run Xinhua news agency said. State media last week had quoted Minister of Work Safety Wang Jun saying "several hundred" people were thought still buried in the mud that swamped the town of Taoshi after a mining waste reservoir burst its banks on September ... more ADB warns hot money could turn China into 'next Vietnam' 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 16, 2008The Asian Development Bank warned Tuesday that China could risk becoming the "next Vietnam", suffering a sudden outflow of short-term speculative funds when the current global turmoil subsides. "One of the big factors is movement in international capital. Many are concerned that China will become the next Vietnam," said Jian Zhuang, a senior economist with the ADB. "Hot money will rush ... more
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