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N.Korea lashes out at Seoul's 'preemptive strike' planSeoul (AFP) Jan 24, 2010 North Korea on Sunday lashed out at South Korea's plan to launch a "preemptive strike" to thwart any nuclear attack from Pyongyang as an "open declaration of war," state media said. The North's General Staff of the Korean People's Army said the South Korean defence chief's recent remarks on a preemptive strike had created a "grave situation" which could lead to war "at any moment." "They will take prompt and decisive military actions against any attempt of the South Korean puppet authorities. ... read more |
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Turks, Uighurs killed by Afghan drone attack: websiteKabul (AFP) Jan 23, 2010 An attack by a Western drone aircraft in Afghanistan killed 15 militants of Turkish and Chinese Uighur origin, a Turkish militant website was quoted as saying on Saturday. The Islamist website, quoted by the US-based SITE Intelligence Group which monitors such sites, said the attack took place on January 19. The NATO military force said it had no record of such an attack on that day but announced a few days earlier, on January 12, that 16 militants had been killed by missiles from drone aircraf ... read more |
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Moscow (AFP) Jan 20, 2010US military planes are flying over Russia with supplies for Afghanistan under a deal signed last summer, the US ambassador to Moscow said Wednesday, denying claims that the deal had broken down. "There are many incorrect reports that this agreement is barely functioning, that supposedly there was only one flight of a US plane," John Beyrle said in an interview with Echo of Moscow radio. ... more  
Tehran (AFP) Jan 24, 2010President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hinted on Sunday that Tehran would itself pursue uranium enrichment to higher levels if the West spurns its offer of a phased fuel swap, promising Iranians "sweet" news soon. Ahmadinejad said Iran will make an announcement regarding the enrichment of uranium to 20 percent purity when the nation next month marks the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution whic ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) Jan 24, 2010A bomb detection device newly banned from export in Britain and labelled useless by US forces was still being used at checkpoints in Baghdad on Sunday, to a mixture of confidence and disbelief. "We know it doesn't work and that it has been banned but we are continuing to use it," an Iraqi army lieutenant, shaking his head amid busy traffic, told an AFP correspondent in the capital. "It i ... more |
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Vietnam tops Russia's arms client listHanoi, Vietnam (UPI) Jan 22, 2009 Vietnam is now officially Russia's biggest arms client thanks to recent orders for six Kilo-class submarines and 12 Su-30 fighter jets, according to a Moscow-based think tank. Vietnam's deal for its first submarines is Russia's second-biggest contract for subs in the post-Soviet period, after a 2002 contract with China for eight submarines, said the independent Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies that monitors Russian military exports. The analysis by CAST confirms what ob ... read more |
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