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Japan to consider using drones: reportTokyo (AFP) Dec 30, 2010 Japan is to consider using unmanned aircraft for surveillance flights, a newspaper reported Thursday, at a time of heightened tensions with neighbouring China and North Korea. Japan will send military officials to the United States, which uses the cutting-edge Global Hawk high-altitude surveillance aircraft, to study how they operate and maintain the drones, the Yomiuri daily said. The defense ministry will start fully fledged research in the next fiscal year starting April, and intends to make ... read more |
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  Arabs to go to UN against Jewish settlements The Palestinians and Arabs will shortly bring a draft resolution before the UN Security Council calling on Israel to halt Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories and Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian official said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
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 Obama's other 'surge': US drone war in Pakistan As the United States pressed ahead with a grinding campaign in Afghanistan in 2010, President Barack Obama dramatically escalated another war across the border in Pakistan, using robotic planes to pound Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants. ... more | .. |
 US missile salvo kills 15 in Pakistan: officials A barrage of US missiles killed at least 15 militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal district on Tuesday, obliterating compounds and vehicles used by Islamist fighters, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Iran hangs 'Mossad spy': state media Iran on Tuesday hanged a man found guilty of feeding Israeli spy agency Mossad with Iranian military secrets and information on its missile programme over a period of six years, news agency IRNA reported. ... more | .. |
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 Bibi snubs Obama but wants to free spy Israel may have refused U.S. President Barack Obama's request to freeze settlements construction in the occupied West Bank but it is still pushing him to free Jonathan Jay Pollard, Israel's most notorious spy. ... more | .. |
 U.S. choppers to boost Iraqi training Three combat helicopters recently delivered by the United States to Iraq will help train local pilots to operate and maintain the fleet, U.S. military officials said in Iraq. ... more |
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