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President Barack Obama told The New York Times, in an interview published Sunday, that he is willing to talk to the moderate elements of the Taliban in order to reach a negotiated end to the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, now in its eighth year and showing no end in sight. A question that was put to this correspondent Sunday in a television interview by a reporter following Obama's st ... read more 
Washington (AFP) March 9, 2009Five Chinese vessels maneuvered dangerously close to a US Navy ship in the South China Sea on Sunday, closing within 25 feet of the unarmed surveillance ship, the Pentagon said. "This was a reckless, dangerous maneuver that was unprofessional" and violated international law, Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters on Monday. The United States protested to Chinese author ... more
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UK govt accused of renaming submarine to avoid offending France
Iran diplomat says no contact with US since Trump's return Lights out for French solar panel maker Kremlin urges Trump to resume nuclear disarmament talks 'as soon as possible' UK agrees �9 bn nuclear submarine deal with Rolls-Royce Trump hopes to avoid strikes on Iran nuclear sites Iran says Oct 7 attack 'destroyed' chance for US nuclear talks UN nuclear chief urges dialogue between Trump, Iran New Zealand mayor goes nuclear after Trump claims US 'split the atom' Iran says hopes Trump will take 'realistic' approach to region 
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Baghdad (AFP) March 9, 2009A senior MP from radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr's party on Monday called for the immediate withdrawal of US troops, a day after plans for a major drawdown was announced. Iraq and the United States said on Sunday that 12,000 US troops will go home by the end of September in a first step toward completing a withdrawal by 2011 under an accord signed between Baghdad and Washington last ... more 
Washington (UPI) Mar 9, 2009 CNN is watched the world over, and fear and worst-case scenarios are contagious. Fareed Zakaria's Sunday talk show "GPS" was doom and gloom on a global scale. Globalization is in retreat; capital flows are shrinking; a massive financial crisis, the likes of which have not been seen since the 1930s, is on its way; Asian exports are down 30 percent to 40 percent; Eastern European states, the for ... more  
Arlington VA (SPX) Mar 10, 2009CACI International has announced that it has been awarded a new task order, totaling an estimated $40 million in value, under the U.S. Army's Strategic Services Sourcing (S3) contract vehicle. The contract, for one base year and two option years, supports the Army's Product Manager Forward Looking Infrared (PM FLIR) and Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD). The award inc ... more 
London (AFP) March 9, 2009Britain is to temporarily withdraw Nimrod spy planes from overseas operations to carry out safety modifications ordered after a deadly crash in Afghanistan, a government minister said Monday. Fourteen servicemen were killed in the 2006 crash, when their Nimrod exploded in mid-air shortly after refueling, in the British military's single biggest loss of life in a single incident for nearly 25 ... more |
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Young Chinese turn to AI pets for emotional reliefBeijing (AFP) Jan 20, 2025 At a shopping mall in Beijing, Zhang Yachun murmurs quietly to her closest confidant, a fluffy AI-powered robot whose soothing chirps remind her that she is not alone. ... more 
Robots should be repurposed to combat e-waste crisisLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 17, 2025 Researchers from the University of Bristol and the University of West England have urged the robotics industry to focus on developing robots that can be reprogrammed and repurposed for alternative t ... more
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Washington (AFP) March 9, 2009US Vice President Joe Biden heads to Brussels on Monday for consultations with NATO allies as a moment of decision looms on a new US strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Biden, who holds a day of talks in Brussels Tuesday, will be on his second trip to Europe in a month, and officials said his high-profile journey was a sign of how seriously the war policy review was being taken. ... more 
Cincinnati OH (SPX) Mar 10, 2009BAE Systems has received a contract from the U.S. Army to supply Tensylon composite armor panels for the Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET) vehicles. HET vehicles transport, deploy, recover and evacuate combat-loaded main battle tanks and other heavy tracked and wheeled vehicles to and from the battlefield. Tensylon is a state-of-the-art material developed exclusively by BAE Systems t ... more 
Ottawa (AFP) March 9, 2009Canada's Defense Minister Peter MacKay expressed surprise Monday that the United States would reportedly promote him to European allies to become the next NATO chief. "That's breaking news to me," MacKay told a press conference. "I've never had discussions with (US) Vice President (Joe) Biden about this." Biden, according to The Washington Post newspaper, is to press European allies in ... more 
Washington (AFP) March 9, 2009The United States said Monday that northeast Asia is threatened by North Korea's "bellicose rhetoric" rather by than the annual US-South Korean military maneuvers. The exercises "are not a threat to the North," acting State Department spokesman Robert Wood said when asked if Washington might be misreading Pyongyang. "What is a threat to the region is this bellicose rhetoric coming out of ... more |
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