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China shows off air defences with anti-missile testBeijing (AFP) Jan 13, 2010 China said Tuesday it had successfully tested a missile intercept system in what analysts described as a show of its advanced air defence capabilities amid tensions over US arms sales to Taiwan. "China conducted a test of ground-based mid-range missile interception technology within its territory, which achieved its objective," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters. "This test is defensive in nature and not targeted at any other country and is consistent with the national defence policy of China," Jiang said. ... read more |
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San Francisco (AFP) Jan 12, 2010Google threatened Tuesday to shut down its operations in China after uncovering what it said were "highly sophisticated" cyberattacks aimed at Chinese human rights activists. Google said China-based cyber spies struck the Internet giant and at least 20 other unidentified firms in an apparent bid to hack into the email accounts of activists around the world. Google said the online espiona ... more  
London (AFP) Jan 12, 2010Britain announced a ban Tuesday on a radical Islamic group which triggered outrage by planning an anti-war march through a town where processions are held for soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Islam4UK will be banned from Thursday under anti-terror legislation, making it a criminal offence punishable by up to 10 years in jail to be a member of the group, which also uses other names, said Home ... more  
Kabul (AFP) Jan 12, 2010Missiles fired from drone aircraft have killed 16 militants in southern Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said Tuesday, in a rare attack in Afghanistan using the controversial unmanned planes. A drone was launched after troops observed large numbers of insurgents preparing a strike in the southern province of Helmand's Naw Zad district on Monday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force ... more |
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Kabul, Afghanistan (UPI) Jan 12, 2009 Al-Qaida signed in last week with an ominous message as if to warn the world its presence in Afghanistan dare not be written off or its hold in that country minimized with the growing influence of the Taliban. As attention remained focused on the poor Arabian Peninsula nation of Yemen as the new hunting ground of al-Qaida, the Osama bin Laden terror group sent out a statement on Islamic ... more 
London (UPI) Jan 12, 2009 George W. Bush did not have to talk Tony Blair into sending troops to take part in the Iraq war, Blair's former spokesman said Tuesday, just as a Dutch inquiry concluded the war had no legal basis. Alastair Campbell, Blair's former spin doctor, told a British inquiry probing the controversial military campaign that Blair's position on Iraq was not shifted by Bush at a summit at his ranc ... more  
Taipei (AFP) Jan 12, 2010Taiwan has scaled back its military budget for 2010, officials said Tuesday, amid generally warming ties with its former bitter rival China. Taiwan's parliament, controlled by the Beijing-friendly Kuomintang party, rubber-stamped a budget of 297.4 billion Taiwan dollars (9.3 billion US) for the defence ministry. It is a 6.7 percent fall from the 318.6 billion dollar budget in 2009, the C ... more |
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  Iran sanctions talks Saturday in New York: diplomat  S.Korea minister cool on N.Korea peace talks offer  Outside View: Intelligence effectiveness |
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