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Iran test-fires medium-range Sejil missile: state TVTehran (AFP) Dec 16, 2009 A defiant Iran on Wednesday test-fired an improved version of its Sejil 2 medium-range missile which it says can reach targets inside Israel, prompting a sharp rebuke from Britain. "It hit the defined target," state television reported, without giving further details. The two-stage Sejil, powered by solid fuel, is capable according to Iran of travelling 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) ... read more |
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Miranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Dec 17, 2009Two separate US missile strikes killed at least 14 militants in northwest Pakistan Thursday, officials said, as Islamabad faces growing US pressure to dismantle Islamist extremist networks. The attacks hours apart by unmanned US drone aircraft hit suspected militant hideouts in the same area of North Waziristan, part of the lawless tribal belt branded the most dangerous place in the world by ... more  
United Nations (AFP) Dec 17, 2009The UN Security Council, lauding the Liberian government for the progress it made in rebuilding its country, voted unanimously Thursday to exempt it from an arms embargo in force since 2003. Resolution 1903 extended for another year the arms embargo for "all non-governmental entities and individuals operating in the territory of Liberia," but lifted it for the sale of weapons to the Liberian ... more  
Moscow (AFP) Dec 17, 2009Russia should stop seeing the West as a threat, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday, as he called for a new partnership between Moscow and the transatlantic alliance. Relations between NATO and Moscow plunged to a post-Cold War low after the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, but Rasmussen has made improving ties a priority since coming to office in August. ... more |
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Seoul (UPI) Dec 17, 2009 North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong Il made a visit to the country's sputtering free-trade zone for the first time since its foundation two decades ago in an apparent bid to woo much-needed foreign capital. Kim made an "on-spot" guidance tour of the Rason free economic and trade zone on the country's northern tip bordering China and Russia, the North's official Central News Agency ... more  
Kabul (AFP) Dec 17, 2009Washington's ambassador to Kabul said Thursday no deadline exists for withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan and recommitted the US to helping build the capacity and competence of Afghan security forces. US forces would begin a "gradual and responsible transition" in July 2011 conditional on the readiness of Afghanistan's own police and army to take over the security of their war-battered ... more  
San Francisco (AFP) Dec 16, 2009US defense contractor Raytheon on Wednesday unveiled the first of what it said will be a series of software applications to make iPhones or iPod touch devices into battlefield tools. One Force Tracker (OFT) software takes advantage of features built into Apple's wildly popular touch-screen mobile devices to let soldiers track whereabouts of allies and adversaries on maps in real time. ... more |
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