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U.S. charts $3 billion bomb planKabul, Afghanistan (UPI) Jul 14, 2010 Mounting efforts to counter crude bombs used by Taliban forces, the United States has decided to deliver $3 billion worth of equipment to Afghanistan. The decision comes as U.S. forces deployed in Afghanistan have intensified their fight against Taliban insurgents who have equally been increasing their attacks against foreign troops. More than 100 soldiers died in June, the highest monthly death toll for the 9-year war. In one attack this week, four Americans were killed by a roadside bo ... read more |
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Jerusalem (AFP) July 14, 2010Israeli warships warily shadowed a Libyan aid ship on Tuesday even as officials said the vessel was diverting its course from Gaza and heading for a nearby Egyptian port. The standoff comes amid high tensions just six weeks after Israeli commandos launched a pre-dawn operation to prevent a flotilla of aid ships from breaching the blockade, leaving nine people dead. The executive director ... more  
Fallujah, Iraq (AFP) July 14, 2010A series of six attacks in Baghdad and a shooting west of the capital killed six people, including three daughters and the grandson of a Sufi Muslim order's leader, Iraqi officials said Wednesday. "Men with Kalashnikovs and anti-tank rockets attacked the house and adjacent tekiya (Sufi shrine) at 10:00 am (0700 GMT)," said Jassim al-Jumaili, major of Amariyah, south of the former Sunni Arab ... more  
Islamabad (AFP) July 15, 2010The foreign ministers of nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India are to hold talks in Islamabad Thursday aimed at resuming a tentative peace process derailed by the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The talks are the third high-level contact in six months and the foreign ministers' first meeting since 10 Islamist gunmen left 166 people dead in 60 hours of carnage in India's financial capital two years ag ... more |
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Russia Needs More Flying Tankers For Its Air ForceMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 14, 2010 The inter-theater redeployment of aircraft during Vostok-2010 was one of the key events of the strategic war games, held recently. The Su-24 Fencer and Su-34 Fullback tactical bombers used midair refueling to fly to the Russian Far East. In-flight refueling, routinely used by the world's leading powers, including the United States and NATO countries, allows for the quick build-up of air power in a given zone of conflict. To efficiently implement that maneuver, a country should have a suffici ... read more |
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