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U.K. to repay Iran $650 million for tanks London (UPI) Apr 27, 2010 An international trade court ordered Britain to pay Iran $650 million for failing to deliver some 1,300 tanks after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was toppled in the 1979 Islamic revolution, officials said. That marked a propaganda victory for Iran as it braces for the United States and its allies to secure a new round of economic sanctions on it for refusing to abandon its nuclear program. But Tehran won't gain any material benefit from the ruling by the court in The Hague. With financial r ... read more |
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Washington (UPI) Apr 26, 2010 Britain's general election has become one of those moments when life imitates art, or at least, when international politics follows a script from the movies. Nick Clegg is the leader of Britain's third party, the long-derided Liberal Democrats, who has electrified the election by leaping forward in the televised debates and opinion polls to be at level pegging with the Conservatives and ... more  
Hualien, Taiwan (AFP) April 27, 2010Taiwan's military Tuesday lifted the veil on how it would respond to a massive Chinese air attack, showing that the island still takes the risk of war very seriously despite improving ties. Journalists were invited for the first time to a drill simulating aerial assaults on Taiwan's major air bases and testing the military's ability to recover quickly from such a shock. The manoeuvres, s ... more  
Fort Worth TX (SPX) Apr 27, 2010Day one of the annual Army Aviation Association of America convention in Fort Worth, Texas, opened April 15 with remarks by AAAA president, retired Brig. Gen. Rod Wolfe, and a welcome from the host commander, Maj. Gen. William F. Grimsley, who serves as acting commander of III Corps and Fort Hood, Texas. Aviation Branch Chief Maj. Gen. James O. Barclay III gave opening remarks and introduc ... more |
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Fears grow over oil spill off US coastNew Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) April 27, 2010 The Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster will develop into one of the worst spills in US history if the well is not sealed, the coast guard officer leading the response warned Tuesday. BP, which leases the Deepwater Horizon platform, has been operating four robotic submarines some 1,500 meters (5,000 feet) down on the seabed to try to cap two leaks in the riser pipe that connected the rig to the wellhead. But the best efforts of the British energy giant have yielded no progress so far, and engineers ... read more |
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