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Israel's vaunted missile shield 'flawed'Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jan 15, 2009 Despite all the media fanfare and ballyhoo about the impending deployment of another missile-defense system, Israeli commentators are warning that the Jewish state's much-vaunted defense shield has a few chinks in it. The Defense Ministry announced on Jan. 7 that Iron Dome, which is designed to shoot down short-range missiles and mortar shells, had sailed through a series of test-firings with flying colors. The first operational battery would soon be deployed on the southern front against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip to counter rockets fired by the Palestinian militants. ... read more |
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Seoul (AFP) Jan 18, 2010North Korea Monday demanded an end to sanctions before it returns to nuclear disarmament negotiations, but gave the go-ahead for economic talks with South Korea despite earlier threats to attack its neighbour. Pyongyang's foreign ministry, reiterating its earlier stance, said it would not return to the six-nation disarmament talks it abandoned last April until the United Nations sanctions ar ... more 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 16, 2010The United States and Russia have made "significant" progress towards a new nuclear disarmament treaty, President Dmitry Medvedev was quoted as saying on Saturday. "We have taken a fairly serious step forward, and to a significant degree we have brought our positions closer," Medvedev said, quoted by the ITAR-TASS and RIA-Novosti state news agencies. The negotiations "are not proceeding ... more  
Sanaa (AFP) Jan 15, 2010An air strike against an Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) convoy in north Yemen on Friday killed six suspected leaders of the group including its military chief, a senior Yemeni official said. Qassem al-Rimi was among 23 people who had made a daring escape from a state security prison in Sanaa in February 2006 that left the government red-faced, and he was on a list of 152 suspects w ... more |
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Manila, Philippines (UPI) Jan 15, 2009 A small-town deputy mayor tried to stop his boss from starting what turned out to be mass murder of 57 people, a hearing has heard. That was the start of what promises to be one of the country's most disturbing legal trials to date, the massacre in broad daylight of men and women -- including one who was pregnant -- at a makeshift roadblock in November 2009. It is also on track t ... more  
Kabul (AFP) Jan 15, 2010Five Afghan civilians were shot and wounded by US and Afghan troops outside a military base in a restive area of the country that was the scene of a violent demonstration a day earlier, NATO said Friday. The incident took place in the Garmser area of Helmand province on Wednesday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement. An ISAF spokesman said warning sh ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) Jan 17, 2010Saddam Hussein's notorious henchman "Chemical Ali" was on Sunday sentenced to death for ordering the gassing of Kurds in the Iraqi town of Halabja, a brutal attack that killed an estimated 5,000 people. Ali Hassan al-Majid is to die by hanging, having been found guilty of the atrocity in the northeast of the country as the Iran-Iraq war drew to a close in 1988, an iconic moment that symbolis ... more |
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