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China prods erratic N.Korea on economic reformBeijing (AFP) Aug 31, 2010 China has pressed North Korea to speed up economic reforms in a summit encounter that underscored Beijing's concerns about its impoverished and wayward ally, experts said Tuesday. Many analysts said North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's five-day tour of northeast China - which ended Monday - was aimed at conferring legitimacy on an eventual handover of power to his youngest son. But for China, reviving the North's moribund economy also appears paramount at a time when it is trying to coax Kim back ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Aug 31, 2010After months of rising tension, the United States is gingerly exploring how to launch talks with North Korea without loosening the screws on the isolated state, experts say. President Barack Obama has made dialogue a hallmark of his foreign policy, extending a hand to regimes no matter how odious in US eyes. A major exception was North Korea, which since Obama took office has tested a nuclea ... more  
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Aug 31, 2010 Military leaders and analysts are at odds over Defense Minister Ehud Barak's recent decision to buy 20 Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters, largely because it will take four years for them to be delivered and become operational, too late for any assault on Iran. Israel's army and navy have expressed opposition to the air force using so much of the defense budget on the new Lightning I ... more  
Denver CO (SPX) Aug 31, 2010In recent flight tests on the Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (TUAS), Rockwell Collins demonstrated a new technology that is able to perform real-time data monitoring and analysis while in flight to alert UAS operators of impending maintenance needs. The new capability, also known as the real-time Condition-Based Monitoring (CBM) system, is designed to improve UAS reliability, whi ... more |
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Can CO2 Be Stored Safely UndergroundBonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 31, 2010 Coal-fired power stations release more carbon dioxide per kWh than any other fossil fuel facility, and Germany has a large number of just this sort of power station. It is estimated that around 40 billion tons of coal are stored in potential open cast deposits in Lusatia and the Lower Rhine Basin. That makes up 14 percent of world reserves. The question is, can the carbon dioxide emissions be captured and stored underground? The idea of filtering carbon dioxide out of coal power station exha ... read more |
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