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US to deploy new intelligence drone in Afghanistan: reportWashington (AFP) Jan 2, 2011 The US military plans to to deploy a new intelligence drone in Afghanistan, which military experts say will allow US troops to monitor much larger operational theaters than before, The Washington Post reported Sunday. The newspaper said the airborne surveillance system is called Gorgon Stare and will be able to transmit live video images of physical movement across an entire town. In 2010, a total of 711 international troops were killed in Afghanistan, according to independent website iCasualt ... read more |
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  First British soldier of 2011 killed in Afghanistan The first British soldier to die in Afghanistan this year was killed in an explosion on New Year's Day, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Taiwan set to lift ban on solo Chinese tourists Taiwan is expected to lift its decades-old ban on visits by individual Chinese tourists from April in yet another sign of the island's fast-warming ties with China, officials and local media said Sunday. ... more | .. |
  US ambassador to China hints at presidential bid: report Jon Huntsman, the US ambassador to China, has hinted he is considering running for the Republican presidential nomination in comments made to Newsweek. ... more | .. |
 US drone strikes kill 15 militants in Pakistan: officials 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. ... more |
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  Two US soldiers die in Iraq, first casualties of 2011 Two US soldiers have been killed in central Iraq in the first deadly attack of 2011 on American forces in the country, the military said on Monday. ... more | .. |
 Qaeda in Iraq claims deadly bombings Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq claimed responsibility for two separate bombings in Mosul and Ramadi last week that killed eight policemen and five others, in a statement published Sunday by the SITE Intelligence Group. ... 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 | .. |
 Kurdistan newspapers hit by lawsuit barrage Newspapers and journalists in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region have been bombarded by a barrage of lawsuits from regional political parties, media rights groups and editors say. ... more |
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 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 | .. |
Hu pledges a peaceful, cooperative China in 2011 Chinese President Hu Jintao said in a New Year's Eve address on Friday China would adhere to the path of peaceful development and would always seek to cooperate when facing global problems. ... more | .. |
 Ethnic discrimination infests Afghan army, soldiers say Disgruntled Afghan soldiers dish out five-dollar dinner plates of fried rice and potatoes to US Marines at a camp on the frontline against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. ... more | .. |
  'Merchant of Death' says he turned down US plea bargain A suspected Russian arms dealer known as the "Merchant of Death" said in a rare interview published Sunday that he rejected a US plea bargain offer that would have exposed his alleged contact list. ... more |
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  U.S. Navy signs contract or Littoral ships The U.S. Navy has announced a contract for the design and construction of 20 coastal warships for a combined total of more than $7 billion. ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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