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Russia sticks with missile project despite setbacks: reportMoscow (AFP) Dec 23, 2009 Russia will press ahead with its Bulava missile programme, the country's defence minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday, despite another failed test launch earlier this month. "We are certainly not going to cancel Bulava," Anatoly Serdyukov told the Rossiyskaya Gazeta in an interview to be published Thursday, parts of which were obtained by Interfax news agency. "There's a whole series of problems and unfortunately we can not resolve them as quickly as we would like," he added. "Nevertheless, I believe that the missile will fly. ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 23, 2009The United States on Wednesday denounced China's trial of leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo as a political one that is "uncharacteristic of a great country." The 53-year-old Liu, a writer who was previously jailed over the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests, has been charged with "inciting subversion of state power" after co-authoring a bold call for political reform last year. His ... more  
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Dec 23, 2009The Malaysian government faced a storm of criticism Wednesday over allegations of official corruption after the theft of two US-made fighter jet engines worth 29 million dollars. News reports this week said the stolen Northrop F-5E jet engines had been sold on the black market by military officers to a South American company. They had been taken from a military airbase, apparently last year. ... more 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 23, 2009Russia has signed a contract to deliver 20 MiG-29 fighter planes to military-run Myanmar, the daily Kommersant reported Wednesday. The contract was signed a few weeks ago and came to nearly 400 million euros (570 million dollars), according to a source close to Russian arms sales company Rosoboronexport quoted by the paper. The Southeast Asian country is under Western sanctions but human ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 23, 2009A court in western China's Xinjiang Wednesday tried 22 more defendants suspected of involvement in ethnic violence that left nearly 200 dead and over 1,600 injured, a government spokesman said. "Today a group of 22 people suspected in the July 5 incident were tried," Hou Hanmin, spokesman with Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region government told AFP by phone. "A verdict was reached in the a ... more 
Washington (UPI) Dec 23, 2009 Winston Churchill characterized Soviet Russia in terms of riddles and enigmas. Pakistan today can be characterized as seemingly implacable contradictions and collisions between immovable objects and immutable forces -- potentially creating the "mother of all quagmires." A critical question is whether these competing concurrent centrifugal and centripetal forces bring Thermidor to Pakistan? ... more 
Mosul, Iraq (AFP) Dec 23, 2009A pre-Christmas attack on a church killed two people in the Iraqi city of Mosul Wednesday while a Sunni Arab candidate died in a bombing in Fallujah, the first such murder ahead of March polls. They were among 13 people killed in violence across the country, despite security forces ramping up their presence ahead of Christmas and the Shiite commemoration ceremonies of Ashura. In Mosul, t ... more |
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