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NKorea nuke talks may be close to breakdown: SKorea Seoul (AFP) Sept 26, 2008 
International nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea may be near breakdown after the communist state announced moves to restart its atomic plants, South Korea's foreign minister warned Friday. Speaking to reporters, Yu Myung-Hwan said the North's tactics may be linked to the upcoming US presidential election. "We are at a difficult situation where we may be going back to square one," ... read moreIsrael's Peres says Ahmadinejad 'taking world for a fool' 
Jerusalem (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Israeli President Shimon Peres sharpened his attack on Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday, accusing him of "taking the world for a fool" in his statements to the UN General Assembly. "(Ahmadinejad) has committed a fatal error, and is taking the world for a fool. He thinks he is an absolute prophet, proclaiming that there is no more hope for the United States or Israel," Peres ... more
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India, Pakistan leaders agree to kickstart peace talks
New York (AFP) Sept 24, 2008Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari agreed here Wednesday to kickstart an embattled peace dialogue between the two nuclear-armed rivals, with new talks to be scheduled by year's end. The leaders agreed that their foreign secretaries "will schedule meetings of the fifth round of the composite dialogue in the next three months," a joint statement said a ... more NKorea piled up enriched uranium: defector 
Seoul (AFP) Sept 25, 2008North Korea has amassed a "considerable" amount of enriched uranium, a high profile defector was quoted as saying Thursday. Hwang Jang-Yop told South Korean lawmakers the communist state completed preparations for an underground nuclear test in 1996. "As far as I know it has piled up a considerable amount of enriched uranium," he told a meeting hosted by the minor opposition Liberal Forw ... more An African Arms Bazaar Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 25, 2008 From Sept. 17 to 21 the largest regional aerospace, defense and security exhibition, Africa Aerospace and Defense-2008, was held at Ysterplaat Air Base near Cape Town in South Africa. The biennial event involving weapons manufacturers from all over the world attaches priority to aerospace and defense systems, as well as military and dual-purpose equipment. This year a massive R ... more  |
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Contact man's murder delays Syria nuclear probe: IAEA
Vienna (AFP) Sept 25, 2008The UN atomic watchdog's probe into alleged illicit nuclear work in Syria has been delayed because the agency's contact man in Syria was murdered, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei revealed Thursday. "The reason that Syria has been late in providing additional information (is) that our interlocutor has been assassinated in Syria," ElBaradei told a closed-door session of the International Atomic E ... more EADS announces delay in first flight of A400M military plane 
Paris (AFP) Sept 25, 2008European aerospace group EADS said Thursday the first flight of its A400M military transporter, planned for the end of the year, is now postponed to an indefinite date. EADS said in statement the timing of the first flight would depend on tests carried out on the aircraft engine "and on the readiness of the propulsion system." "Only after this and further discussions with customers, (can ... more Pakistani, US troops exchange fire 
Washington (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Pakistani and US troops exchanged fire along the Pakistani-Afghan border Thursday after two US military helicopters came under fire, a US military spokesman said. Rear Admiral Gregory Smith said Pakistani soldiers at a border checkpoint were observed firing on two US OH-58 Kiowa helicopters covering a patrol of Afghan and US troops about a mile and a half inside Afghanistan. ... more Russia may sell S-300s to Iran 
Washington (UPI) Sep 25, 2008 Russia is likely to sell even more of its most modern anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense systems to Iran, according to the head of the nation's main arms export corporation. The move looks certain to even further strain relations between Moscow and Washington that are already now as fraught as at any time since the darkest days of the Cold War. "Contacts between ... more |
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