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NATO calls for pan-European missile shieldBrussels (UPI) May 6, 2010 Building a European-wide missile shield would cost no more than $250 million, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said. At a news conference Wednesday at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Rasmussen said he was in favor to link and expand NATO's missile defense systems to protect the entire continent. "NATO is already building a missile defense system to protect our armed forces when they go out on mission," Rasmussen said. "The cost of expanding that system to cover not only our so ... read more |
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RAAF Base Williamtown, Australia (SPX) May 06, 2010Boeing has announced that the Commonwealth of Australia has accepted the first two Project Wedgetail 737 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW and C) aircraft into the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) fleet. The aircraft were accepted during a ceremony at RAAF Base Williamtown, the main operating base for the Wedgetail fleet. "This major milestone demonstrates that the 737 AEW and ... more  
United Nations (AFP) May 5, 2010The need has "doubled" to create a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East as Britain, Russia and the United States have done nothing to carry out a 1995 pledge to set it up, Egypt told a UN conference here Wednesday. In a speech read in his absence to a conference reviewing the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit said: "the need is doubled today ... more 
Seoul (AFP) May 6, 2010Traces of explosive from a torpedo have been found on debris from a sunken South Korean warship, fuelling suspicions that North Korea sank the vessel, a report said Thursday. Aluminium fragments from a torpedo casing have also been found, Dong-A Ilbo newspaper quoted a member of a team investigating the blast as saying. President Lee Myung-Bak hinted Tuesday that North Korea was involved ... more |
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Japan PM to meet small island's mayors over US base rowTokyo (AFP) May 7, 2010 Japan's premier, under fire over a row on an unpopular US airbase, was Friday due to meet three mayors from a remote southern island over plans to relocate some military operations there. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has faced heavy criticism since he backtracked Tuesday on an election pledge made last year to move the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma entirely off the larger far-southern island of Okinawa. Instead, the centre-left leader conceded this week that most of the American base oper ... read more |
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