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India announces long-range nuclear-capable missile testNew Delhi (AFP) Feb 10, 2010 India will test a nuclear-capable missile with a range of over 5,000 kilometres (3,000 miles) within a year, its top military scientist said Wednesday, risking a rise in regional tensions. "The next series of missiles is Agni-V, which has left the drawing board and is moving toward the first flight trial within the year," the country's chief military scientist, V.K. Saraswat, told a news conference in New Delhi. India's current longest-range nuclear-capable missile, Agni-III, can travel a maximu ... read more |
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Seoul (AFP) Feb 10, 2010North Korea Wednesday repeated demands for sanctions to be lifted before it returns to nuclear disarmament talks, resisting appeals from its ally China to resume dialogue, a news report said. Pyongyang's nuclear negotiators were holding a second day of talks in Beijing amid international efforts to kickstart the stalled negotiations, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported from the Chinese ... more  
Islamabad, Pakistan (UPI) Feb 10, 2009 For more than 60 years the U.S.-Pakistani relationship has veered between despair and euphoria. In a very social sense, the two states could be characterized as an aging married couple occupying very distant parts of a large, deteriorating house whose plumbing, electrics and phone systems are in disrepair and who are at a loss on how to interact to fix both their relationship and their living ... more 
Washington (AFP) Feb 10, 2010A fierce supporter of US aviation giant Boeing who co-authored a report on alleged spying by China is set to head a congressional panel that oversees the Pentagon's yearly budget, according to a top lawmaker. Democratic Representative Norm Dicks is likely to become chairman of the House subcommittee that steers military spending, taking over the post held by his late colleague John Murtha, D ... more |
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NATO chief asks Dutch to take on new Afghan missionBrussels (AFP) Feb 10, 2010 The head of NATO has asked the Netherlands to take on a new training role in Afghanistan and remain at the head of civilian rebuilding work in Uruzgan province, his spokesman said Wednesday. "The secretary general has sent a letter to Prime Minister (Jan Peter) Balkenende asking the Netherlands to consider making a new, smaller contribution," NATO spokesman James Appathurai said. He said that the Dutch contingent was asked to focus "more on training and a managed transition to Afghan lead" from ... read more |
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