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US mulling Japanese participation in F-35 fighter: reportTokyo (AFP) Dec 29, 2009 The United States is considering allowing Japan to take part in a multinational project to develop the F-35 next-generation stealth fighter, a press report said Tuesday. Washington may allow Tokyo to participate in the project even without assurances from Japan that it will procure the F-35, Kyodo News reported, quoting sources from both governments. The move is intended to clear the way for Japan to introduce the F-35 as its future mainstay fighter as countries not participating in the joint development would not be allowed to acquire it at an early date, Kyodo said. ... read more |
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Jerusalem (AFP) Dec 29, 2009Israeli police have arrested nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu for allegedly being in touch with a foreigner, police said on Tuesday. "Vanunu was detained in Jerusalem last night," said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. "He was arrested for talking with a foreigner," Rosenfeld told AFP. YNet News said Vanunu was arrested at a Jerusalem hotel during a meeting with a Norwegian. ... more  
Kaneohe, Hawaii (AFP) Dec 29, 2009President Barack Obama has vowed to hunt down extremists wherever they plot attacks against the United States, as Al-Qaeda said it hatched the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a US-bound airliner. Obama pledged Monday to "disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists who threaten us -- whether they are from Afghanistan or Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia or anywhere where they are plotti ... more  
Skopje (AFP) Dec 29, 2009Macedonia will an additional 80 soldiers to Afghanistan in February, bringing its total contingent there to 243, the defense ministry said Tuesday. Macedonia already has 163 troops in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-run International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the ministry said in a statement. Macedonia has also been participating in a UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon and an EU ... more |
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London (AFP) Dec 29, 2009Britain summoned China's ambassador in London on Tuesday to protest the execution of a Briton it said was mentally ill, as the affair triggered a sharp diplomatic chill between London and Beijing. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was "appalled and disappointed" that China ignored repeated appeals to show mercy on Akmal Shaikh, who was said to have suffered from a mental illness, while his ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) Dec 29, 2009Four members of an anti-Qaeda militia were gunned down at a checkpoint outside Baghdad on Tuesday, an interior ministry official said, the second such attack in the area in three weeks. "They were at a checkpoint in Mashaada and gunmen came up to them, fired on them, and then fled," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The attack occurred near the railway station in Mas ... more 
Helsinki, Finland (UPI) Dec 29, 2009 The National Guard is part of the military reserve forces and operates under the authority of the governor or adjutant general of each of the 50 U.S. states and may offer an idea for security forces in Afghanistan. Each U.S. state's National Guard may be called to active duty by that state's governor during natural disasters or civil unrest. With the governor's consent, state National G ... more |
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