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34 Tajik troops killed in anti-Islamist operation: sourcesDushanbe (AFP) Oct 7, 2010 Thirty-four Tajik troops have been killed in two separate incidents during a military operation against Islamic insurgents in the east of the Central Asian state, military sources said Thursday. The heavy toll in a single day in what official statements insisted were accidents is a severe blow for the government as it seeks to quell mounting Islamist unrest in the remote Rasht Valley in the east of the country. Twenty-eight troops were killed Wednesday when a military helicopter crashed in a pos ... read more |
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Seoul (AFP) Oct 5, 2010The youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has watched a military exercise along with his father, state media said Tuesday, his first such inspection since he was confirmed as heir apparent. The report signalled a rapid rise to public prominence for Kim Jong-Un. The son's name and photograph had never appeared in official media until last week, when he was made a four-star general a ... more 
Tehran (AFP) Oct 5, 2010President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad challenged the West on Tuesday to put more pressure on Iran, which he said would fail to make any impact on the Islamic republic or its atomic programme. Ahmadinejad, in an address to the people of the northeastern province of Golestan, said that during a trip he made last month to the United States, people there "were insisting that the sanctions have affected ... more  
Washington (UPI) Oct 6, 2010 Just when it seemed that things could not get worse, they do. One would have thought that given the ongoing catastrophic floods, conditions in Pakistan were at a nadir. But last week, several incidents lowered even that bar regarding U.S.-Pakistani ties. NATO forces in Afghanistan made two unauthorized incursions into Pakistan, the second killing three Frontier Corps soldiers. CIA drone ... more |
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Minister: Russia to buy weapons abroadMoscow (UPI) Oct 6, 2010 Russia will buy foreign and possibly U.S. arms because the domestic industry has failed to modernize, Russia's Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has said. In an interview with Russian Newsweek, Serdyukov said Moscow was forced to buy from companies abroad as it plans to spend more than $600 billion to modernize its armed forces. "Our weapons often do not meet the required standards," he said. "We are acting as consumers in this situation ... our producers want to issue outdated models b ... read more |
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