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Venezuela-Russia nuke deal a new headacheCaracas, Venezuela (UPI) Oct 18, 2010 Russia's agreement to build a nuclear power station and a research reactor in Venezuela has handed the Obama administration and the International Atomic Energy Agency with a headache that won't go away easily. The problem isn't so much the introduction of nuclear energy to the Latin American country, which has growing electricity needs, but the unpredictable policies of populist President Hugo Chavez. U.S. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said in Washington the United States hop ... read more |
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Reykjavik (AFP) Oct 18, 2010Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks will not publish some 400,000 secret reports on the Iraq war on Monday as had been widely rumoured, but they would be available "very soon", a spokesman said. "There are rumours that have been floating around for some time, there is nothing you can do about it, they're obviously not correct. I can confirm that there's nothing coming out today," Kristinn Hraf ... more  
Washington (AFP) Oct 18, 2010The United States and Israel on Monday listed Iran's nuclear ambitions as a top concern, as they held another round of talks in their twice-yearly strategic dialogue. US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon held the talks in Washington about common strategic concerns, including Iran and the Arab-Israeli peace process. "While today's ... more  
London (AFP) Oct 18, 2010The prospect of savage cuts to the defence budget as the government battles to cut a huge deficit has revived a decades-old debate in Britain - is it losing its status as a global power? Prime Minister David Cameron has stepped in to mediate between the Treasury - which initially demanded defence cuts of up to 20 percent - and military chiefs who warn that cuts over four percent could end ... more |
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A New Pair Of Glasses To View EarthParis, France (ESA) Oct 18, 2010 Our view of Earth is set to become even sharper with new instruments to be carried on ESA's Sentinel-3 satellites. In many ways, it will be like looking at Earth through a new pair of glasses. Sentinel-3 is one of the five missions that ESA is developing for Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative. Primarily, Sentinel-3 will deliver data for GMES services related to the marine environment, such as ocean-current forecasting services that need surface-temperature i ... read more |
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