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Australia gives green light for F-35sMelbourne (UPI) Dec 3, 2009 Australia has given its final approval for the first group of Joint Strike Fighters, worth $3 billion for 14 aircraft to be delivered in 2014. The Ministry of Defense said the F-35 aircraft will be handed over in the United States, ready to begin initial training and test activities and are to replace Australia's F/A-18F Super Hornets. Australia's first operational squadron will ... read more |
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Berlin (AFP) Dec 3, 2009German MPs approved on Thursday an extension of the country's Afghan mission, but Berlin refuses to even consider backing a new US surge with more troops until after an international conference in January. Germany currently has around 4,300 troops in Afghanistan, the third-largest contributor to a 110,000-strong international force after the United States and Britain. The Bundestag lower ... more 
Kabul (AFP) Dec 3, 2009A premature exit of US troops could fatally destabilise Afghanistan and nuclear-armed Pakistan, where powerful voices still back the Taliban as a strategic asset against rival India, analysts say. Unveiling his strategy to end the unpopular and costly eight-year war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered an extra 30,000 troops into battle but earmarked July 2011 as the sta ... more  
Tehran (AFP) Dec 3, 2009Powerful cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani called on Iran's warring political factions to stand together against foreign pressure on Tehran over its nuclear programme, the ISNA new agency reported on Thursday. The two-time former president also warned that an international "consensus" had formed against Iran over its nuclear ambitions, in contrast with hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Dec 2, 2009 A new consortium bringing together university academics and industry professionals is setting new targets for advanced research to combat threats to cybersecurity. Although the project is focused on the United States, its activities and findings are seen critical to widening the quest for more effective solutions to counter the threats posed in cyberspace by organized crime, drugs and t ... more 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 3, 2009A landmark US-Russian treaty seen as a linchpin of nuclear arms control is all but certain to expire Saturday, despite US President Barack Obama's efforts to improve ties with Moscow. When the Obama administration announced plans to "reset" the badly strained US relationship with Russia, it made finding a new nuclear disarmament treaty the centrepiece of that objective. But despite marat ... more 
Brussels (UPI) Dec 3, 2009 America's European allies are under pressure to do more in Afghanistan after U.S. President Barack Obama announced he would send 30,000 additional forces to the war-torn country. Leaders in Europe welcomed the U.S. troop surge, but they have been slow to send in their own reinforcements. Washington wants its allies to provide between 5,000 and 10,000 additional troops to defeat ... more |
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