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US drone strikes kill 15 militants in Pakistan: officialsMiranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Jan 1, 2011 Three US missile attacks in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on Saturday killed at least 15 militants and destroyed a Taliban compound, local officials said. Pakistani officials said the three strikes by unmanned drones in a single day destroyed targets in North Waziristan tribal agency along the Afghan border, a known hub of the al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network. They said the first two attacks took place in Mandi Khel, 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of North Waziristan's main town of Miranshah, wh ... read more |
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  Taliban attacks kills two NATO soldiers in Afghanistan Two NATO soldiers were killed Friday in separate rebel attacks in southern and western Afghanistan on the last day of 2010, NATO said, taking the death toll for foreign forces to at least 711 for the year. ... more | .. |
  Total 2010 Iraq death toll tops 2009: government The total number of Iraqi civilians and security forces personnel killed in violence in 2010 was higher than the previous year, according to official statistics released on Saturday. ... more | .. |
  Iran seeks UN help on missing official Iran has asked UN chief Ban Ki-moon for help on the fate of a former deputy defence minister who disappeared in Turkey in 2007, media said Friday after reports that he may have died in an Israeli jail. ... more | .. |
  EU could end China arms embargo early 2011: report A European Union arms embargo clamped on China in 1989 following the Tiananmen crackdown could be lifted in early 2011, Brussels sources told Thursday's edition of France's Le Figaro daily. ... more |
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  Abbas heads to Brazi to found Palestinian embassy Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was to travel to Brazil later on Wednesday to lay the symbolic foundation stone of a Palestinian embassy in Brasilia. ... more | .. |
 N.Korea adds more special troops, tanks: S.Korea North Korea has added 20,000 soldiers to its feared special forces over the past two years and deployed an unspecified number of new battle tanks, South Korea's defence ministry said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  US Navy introduces smoking ban on submarines Giving up smoking may be a New Year's resolution for some, but all US sailors will now have to follow suit, as the US Navy moves to ban its crews from smoking aboard submarines starting Friday. ... more | .. |
 Japan to consider using drones: report 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. ... more |
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  Commentary: Third World America? The old saw says if you owe the bank $1 million you're in trouble but if you owe $100 million, the bank's in trouble. The same logic is being applied to the $1 trillion the United States owes China. ... more | .. |
 N.Korea calls for better relations with South North Korea began 2011 with calls for improved relations with South Korea after a year of tensions marked by the first deadly attack on a civilian area since the war. ... more | .. |
 N. Korea attached conditions to nuke inspection offer: media North Korea attached conditions when it offered to allow UN nuclear inspectors back into the country in talks with US troubleshooter Bill Richardson this month, Japanese media reported Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Quiet spy expulsions won't spoil the party Plans by Russia and Spain to celebrate in 2011 each other's cultures remain intact despite tit-for-tat expulsions of alleged spies in the past several weeks. ... more |
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 Nigeria arms scandal hurts Iran in Africa Iranian efforts to woo governments in Africa, where Israel has long cast its diplomatic net, have taken heavy knocks in recent days at a time when Tehran needs every friend it can get. ... more | .. |
 Russia to pay almost 2 bln dlrs for French warships: report Russia will pay France 1.37 billion euros (1.81 billion dollars) for two Mistral-class assault warships that Moscow agreed to purchase from the NATO member last week, news reports said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Indians to outnumber Chinese in 2025: US India is on course to top China as the world's most populous country in 2025, the US Census Bureau forecast, potentially changing the dynamics between the Asian giants. ... more | .. |
 Progress slow but steady in Afghan flashpoint: US Marines US Marines fire mortars over the walls of their newest base in southern Afghanistan to defend ground freshly captured from the Taliban - a sign of progress, they say, after years of stalemate. ... 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 | .. |
 British feared Israel would nuke Arabs: archives British diplomats feared Israel would use nuclear weapons in the event of another war with its Arab neigbours, secret files released Thursday showed. ... more | .. |
  12 killed in Russia military cargo jet crash A giant Antonov cargo plane crashed during a training exercise in central Russia, leaving all 12 military pilots aboard the aircraft missing and presumed dead, officials said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
China backs S.Korea call to resume nuclear talks with North China on Thursday reiterated its support for the resumption of six-party negotiations aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear drive, one day after the South's president said the talks should be revived. ... more | .. |
 AeroVironment Receives Order For Raven UAS And Digital Retrofit Kits AeroVironment has announced that it received an order valued at $46,226,984 under an existing contract with the U.S. Army. The order comprises 123 new digital Raven small unmanned aircraft systems ( ... more | .. |
 China steps up anti-carrier missile tests: US commander China is stepping up efforts to deploy a "carrier-killer" missile system, the commander of the US Pacific Command has said in an interview with a Japanese newspaper, published Tuesday. ... more |
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