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Israel conducts massive controlled blastNegev, Israel (UPI) Jan 27, 2011 Israel conducted a massive controlled explosion to calibrate instruments at seismic monitoring stations worldwide, officials said. Using 100 tons of explosives, The Geophysical Institute of Israel conducted the explosion at a site in the Negev on Wednesday. It registered 2.7 on the Richter scale, and created a mushroom cloud that reached the height of up to 1.78 miles, or three kilometers, Haaretz reported Thursday. Local scientists and scientists from the U.S. and France as well ... read more |
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  Scrapping Nimrod planes 'puts Britain at risk' Former British military chiefs said Thursday the scrapping of a fleet of Nimrod surveillance aircraft will create a "massive security gap" and leave Britain's Trident nuclear submarines vulnerable. ... more | .. |
  Drug violence edges closer to Mexican capital The deployment of soldiers on the outskirts of Mexico City this month has sparked concern that the country's drug wars are creeping toward the sprawling capital. ... more | .. |
  Palestinians ask foreign help to probe leaks Palestinian officials said on Thursday they have asked Britain, France and the United States for help in investigating people from those countries it believes may have leaked hundreds of documents to Al-Jazeera. ... more | .. |
 Gates blames Congress for defense budget 'crisis' US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday said lawmakers unloaded a "crisis on my doorstep" by failing to approve a military budget for the current fiscal year, forcing potential emergency cutbacks. ... more |
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 Iranian hangings spark protest in Berlin Germans and exiled Iranians gathered in front of the German Foreign Ministry Thursday to demand that Berlin take a stance against a wave of executions in Iran. ... more | .. |
  Baghdad car bomb hits mourners, 53 dead in attacks A massive car bomb ripped through a funeral ceremony in a Shiite district of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 48 people in Iraq's bloodiest day in more than two months. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon nabs $145 million deal in Kuwait Raytheon has won a $145 million contract to make Patriot missiles for Kuwait's air and missile defense systems. ... more | .. |
  US pledges help for Philippine navy The United States said Thursday it would help boost the Philippines' capacity to patrol its waters as part of a larger goal of keeping vital Asian sea lanes open amid the rise of China. ... more |
  
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 Germany to sell A400M planes to cut costs The German government has decided to stick with the troubled Airbus A400M airlifter project but announced that its air force would take 20 planes fewer than planned. ... more | .. |
  Chinese tycoon hands out cash in Taiwan China's most famous philanthropist began distributing cash in Taiwan on Thursday, the first day of a controversial trip that has sparked criticism and protests from anti-China groups. ... more | .. |
  Top NATO officer sees echoes of WWII in Afghanistan NATO-led forces have regained the momentum against rebels in Afghanistan but still face a tough fight, the alliance's top officer said Thursday, comparing the campaign to a turning point in World War II. ... more | .. |
 Enzymes That Provide Protection Against Nerve Gas Protection against nerve gas attack is a significant component of the defense system of many countries around the world. Nerve gases are used by armies and terrorist organizations, and constitute a ... more |
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 Support for arms trade treaty grows Support for international efforts to secure an effective arms trade treaty has received boost with new European funds going into the work of leading think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. ... more | .. |
  Gates heads to Canada for talks on war, weapons US Defense Secretary Robert Gates departed for Canada on Wednesday for talks on the war in Afghanistan as well Ottawa's plans to purchase F-35 fighter jets, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Iraqi refugees find limited aid in US Iraqi refugee Ayad Salman opens a folder and lays out the story of how he and his family came to Chicago. ... more | .. |
Israelis asked PA to outlaw Hamas: report Israel urged Palestinians to outlaw Hamas as a political and social movement, according to the latest batch of leaked documents published on Wednesday. ... more |
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 Israeli defense merger gets green light Israeli government ministers and labor leaders have recommended a merger between state-owned Israel Military Industries and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems in a major shake-up in Israel's high-tech defense industry. ... more | .. |
PA, Fatah 'can no longer speak' for Palestinians Gaza Islamists said on Wednesday that the Palestinian leadership could no longer speak for its people after leaked reports of its cooperation with Israel. ... more | .. |
 Iran not working on bomb: Israel intelligence head Iran is not currently working on producing a nuclear weapon but could make one within "a year or two" of taking such a decision, Israel's military intelligence chief said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  NATO networks vulnerable to cyber threat: US NATO's military networks are not fully protected against cyber threats and the alliance must make good on a pledge to erect a virtual wall by 2012, a top US defence official said Tuesday. ... more |
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 Pakistan warns against India nuclear support Pakistan warned on Tuesday that growing international support for rival India's nuclear programme would force Islamabad to bolster its deterrence and destabilise the region. ... more | .. |
Top Israeli general in land-grab probe Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant, recently named the next chief of staff of Israel's armed forces after a bitter backroom battle that scarred the military, is embroiled in a new scandal that could cost him the coveted post. ... more | .. |
Taiwan calls for US jets, cites China stealth plane A top Taiwanese official has renewed calls for Washington to sell the island advanced aircraft in the wake of China's development of its first stealth plane, a report said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Germany to take fewer A400M planes Germany will take delivery of only 40 of the 53 Airbus A400M military transport planes it has ordered, the parliamentary budget committee decided Wednesday, in a further blow to the troubled project. ... more |
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 India Republic Day clouded by tensions in Kashmir India celebrated its Republic Day Wednesday under heavy security, with tensions running high in Kashmir over efforts by Hindu nationalists to hold a rally in the troubled region's state capital. ... more | .. |
Secret files 'reveal British plan to weaken Hamas' British intelligence services helped draw up a secret plan to weaken the radical Palestinian movement Hamas, the Guardian reported on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
Outside View: Think the way out of danger The traditional U.S. solution to military threats has generally been to spend rather than think our way clear of danger. With the wind down of the wars in Iraq and hopefully Afghanistan and the state of the economy with debts and deficits that seem endless, U.S. defense budgets will and must decline, probably dramatically. ... more | .. |
 US has Al-Qaeda on the run in global fight: Obama President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the United States had Al-Qaeda on the run and vowed a relentless fight against the militants, from Afghanistan to the Arabian Peninsula. ... more |
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 S. Korea seeks military talks with N. Korea South Korea called Wednesday for preliminary military talks with North Korea next month, in what would be their first dialogue since the North's deadly shelling of a border island two months ago. ... more | .. |
Five dead in attack on Yemen payroll convoy Five people, including four soldiers, were killed on Wednesday in an attack on a convoy carrying a government payroll in southeastern Yemen, a police official said. ... more | .. |
Doubts recur on use of body scanners While the war on terror trundles on in fits and starts, the arrival of body scanners at an airport near you is generating more skepticism than the security industry anticipated and that may affect overall forecasts of global growth in the deployment of the privacy-stripping machines, new research showed. ... more | .. |
 Sri Lanka military to share war tips at forum Sri Lanka's army Wednesday announced plans to share with other countries its success in crushing ethnic Tamil Tiger rebels and ending the island's 37-year-old separatist war. ... more |
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