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Russia worried by US missile defence planMoscow (AFP) Feb 26, 2010 Russia has serious questions over the aims of fresh US missile defence plans for Europe, the foreign ministry said Friday, in Moscow's strongest expression of concern yet over the new initiative. "We still have serious questions regarding the true purpose of the US missile system," a ministry spokesman, Andrei Nesterenko, told reporters in televised remarks. "Therefore we will continue to consistently oppose any dubious unilateral actions in relation to missile defence that can negatively affect ... read more |
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Jerusalem (AFP) Feb 28, 2010Israel on Sunday began distributing new gas masks for civilians to use in a possible chemical or biological attack, the army said. "The civil defence has asked the Israeli postal service to begin distributing gas masks on an experimental basis to the residents of Or Yehuda," a military spokesman told AFP, referring to an area near Tel Aviv. "Gradually, based on the lessons learned in thi ... more  
Moscow (AFP) Feb 27, 2010Moscow's top anti-drug cop slammed Washington on Saturday over US policies on opium production in Afghanistan, news agencies reported, amid concern over a deadly wave of heroin use in Russia. "US statements on its refusal to eradicate opium plantations... sound like a solid guarantee of impunity for drug producers," Viktor Ivanov, head of Russia's Federal Narcotics Control Service, was quote ... more  
Kirkuk, Iraq (AFP) Feb 28, 2010The fate of a US-backed security force comprising Arabs and Kurds in Iraq's tense north is to be decided after next Sunday's elections, only two months after it was set up to avert a civil war. American and Iraqi officers in Kirkuk, 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad, said the tripartite unit's role and numbers are to be re-evaluated at a high-level meeting on March 9, two days afte ... more |
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Bolivia oil industry held back by meddlingLa Paz, Bolivia (UPI) Feb 25, 2009 State meddling is holding back Bolivia's hydrocarbons industry, which showed early promise of growth but more recently has seen production fall, findings published Thursday indicated. Bolivia Oil and Gas Report Q1 2010, published by the Irish Research and Markets, showed that regional oil use in Latin America had gone from 6.93 million barrels a day in 2001 to 7.74 million barrels a day in 2009 but Bolivia was featured in small percentages in those overall figures for supply and demand. ... read more |
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