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Next-Gen Global Hawk UAV Takes FlightPalmdale CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2009 The first Block 40 configuration of the RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) successfully completed its first flight on Nov. 16. Designated AF-18, the advanced capability aircraft flew for approximately two hours from Northrop Grumman's manufacturing facility in Palmdale, Calif., to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. "AF-18, the eleventh of the ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 9, 2009Authorities in China's restive Xinjiang region have arrested 94 fugitives suspected of involvement in deadly ethnic violence in July, state-run media said on Wednesday. The report by Xinhua news agency appeared to indicate that further harsh sentences could be forthcoming over the violence, for which China has already executed nine people and sentenced eight others to death. ... more 
Kabul (AFP) Dec 9, 2009NATO commanders on Wednesday warned US Defence Secretary Robert Gates of the challenges involved in recruiting Afghan soldiers and police, which the US military hopes will number 287,000 by July 2011. Gates had spent two days in Afghanistan discussing the implementation of a sweeping new US war strategy set to deploy an extra 30,000 troops to battle the Taliban, with the goal of starting to ... more  
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Dec 10, 2009Thanks to the Internet and online social networks (OSNs) news and gossip now spread literally like wildfire - uncontrollably and seemingly without any order. But according to one Ryerson researcher, there is method to the madness. With the right mathematical model, you could spot when and where a story starts, then watch as it skips across the Internet. One day, similar models could even ... more |
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  Al-Qaeda claims Baghdad bombings: US monitoring website  Afghanistan no worse than Iraq in 2007: US general   Oslo braces to welcome 'war president' Nobel laureate |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 9, 2009Pakistan's military operations have "significantly degraded" Taliban militants but Islamabad has yet to go after the Taliban's Afghan leadership, a top US general said on Wednesday. General David Petraeus, head of US Central Command, said the military campaign has boosted US efforts against the Al-Qaeda network and represented an "important step forward." "One of the most important ... more 
Baghdad (AFP) Dec 9, 2009As Suhair Abdul Khaaliq shelters from a rare Baghdad cloudburst, waiting for her seven-year-old daughter Rana to emerge from primary school, it's obvious she's angry about a new textbook. Thumbing through Iraq's newly published "Islamic Education" manual, the mother of three points to photographs illustrating the differences between how the country's two biggest religious groupings, Sunnis ... more  
Tehran (AFP) Dec 9, 2009President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Iran's plan to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants was not aimed at confronting the UN atomic watchdog, which censured Tehran last month, the state television website reported. He also said Iran will continue to build the new plants, adding that sites for five of the 10 units had been finalised. "The news that we announced ... more |
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  Defense lobbying affair in Germany  Outside View: Playing the India card  Killing bin Laden key to Al-Qaeda defeat: McChrystal |
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