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China: Peaceful military developmentBeijing (UPI) Apr 5, 2011 China's military development remains focused on national security and not regional hegemony, a major government white paper on defense said. Beijing will continue to improve its military capability and strengthen military cooperation with many nations, including the United States, the document "China's National Defense in 2010," issued by the Information Office of the State Council, said. But cooperation with the United States remains difficult because of U.S. military sales and support ... read more |
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  Arms sales to Libya haunt Europeans Large-scale sales of weapons and other military equipment to Libya have come back to haunt European powers as they seek to bring down Moammar Gadhafi, with Britain, France and Italy using the same advanced combat jets they once tried to sell to his regime. ... more | .. |
  NATO: 30% of Libyan military destroyed, Misrata a priority Western strikes have destroyed nearly a third of Libya's military assets, and NATO is now making the defence of the besieged city of Misrata a priority, an alliance general said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Obama weighs shuffle of top national security posts With President Barack Obama weighing who should take over key defense posts, US media speculated Tuesday that his war commander in Afghanistan might head up the CIA while the current spy chief would move to the Pentagon. ... more | .. |
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  Pakistan to review its nuclear power Pakistan has called for a review of its nuclear power plants in Karachi and Chashma, in the wake of Japan's nuclear crisis. ... more | .. |
 Armoured Vehicle Worth Over 10 Billion Dollars Many countries are in the midst of acquisition or upgrade programmes to replace or refurbish large fleets of armoured vehicles. However, reduced defence budgets were announced by many countries in 2 ... more | .. |
  US Navy Accomplishes Several Firsts During Operation Odyssey Dawn The U.S. Navy, while partnering with joint forces and coalition forces, made several first-time accomplishments During Operation Odyssey Dawn March 31. During the beginning of Odyssey Dawn, st ... more | .. |
  Argon ST Awarded Joint Precision Air Drop System Ultra Light Weight Contract Argon ST and teammate Atair Aerospace, Inc (Atair) have announced that they have received a $45,000,000 not-to-exceed ceiling firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for t ... more |
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  Preparations Underway As US Army Gears Up For Large-Scale Network Evaluations As preparations for the Army's Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) kick into high gear, Soldiers, engineers, combat developers and test officials are joining forces at Fort Bliss, Texas, and White ... more | .. |
  Nine slain in Iraq, six from one family At least nine people were slain in separate attacks in Iraq on Tuesday, including six members of the family of a university professor who died in an attack last year, security sources said. ... more | .. |
 US Army Selects AAI's Man-Portable Aircraft Survivability Trainer AAI Test and Training has announced that its Man-Portable Aircraft Survivability Trainer (MAST) has been selected by the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentati ... more | .. |
 South African Rooivalk Handed Over To SAAF The upgraded Rooivalk combat support helicopter has been handed over to the South African Air Force for operational duties. The helicopter, designed and manufactured in South Africa, was received by ... more |
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 US general voices concern over Iran-Venezuela ties The United States is worried about increasingly close ties between Venezuela and Iran, a top US military official told lawmakers Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Boeing Supports First Hellfire Test Launch From Avenger System Boeing supported the U.S. Army's first test launch of an AGM-114 Hellfire missile on Feb. 23 at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The missile was fired from a modified Avenger weapon system as part o ... more | .. |
 US says envoy in Libya for talks with opposition A senior US diplomat arrived Tuesday in rebel-held eastern Libya for talks with the opposition about its political aims and the provision of humanitarian aid, the State Department said. ... more | .. |
 Mexican cartels armed from Central America: US Mexico's notoriously violent drug cartels get much of their weapons from stockpiles in Central America left over from conflicts in the region, a top US military official said Tuesday. ... more |
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 Israel, Hamas square off for new clash Israel and Hamas appear to be heading for another "mini-war" as the Jewish state indicts a Palestinian engineer, captured in Ukraine, for masterminding Hamas' rocket program and the Israeli army reportedly gets ready to assassinate Hamas leaders. ... more | .. |
 NEW-HIP Program Advances Avionics Networks Modern military aircraft are burdened with miles of heavily shielded copper wire cables that connect a multitude of components. This cabling is heavy and subject to deterioration due to harsh enviro ... more | .. |
 Small Diameter Bomb II Program Completes CDR Raytheon's Small Diameter Bomb II program completed a U.S. Air Force critical design review (CDR), clearing the way for the weapon to begin captive flight testing later this year. "Raytheon's ... more | .. |
  STSS Satellites Comms Crosslink Extends Real-Time 'Stereo Tracking' Of Space Objects The communications crosslink between the twin Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration satellites, built by Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, has shown its effectiveness in transmitt ... more |
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  DARPA Anti-Submarine Warfare Game Goes Live Can you best an enemy submarine commander so he can't escape into the ocean depths? If you think you can, you are invited to put yourself into the virtual driver's seat of one of several Anti-Submar ... more | .. |
 Report: Al-Qaida active in Triple Frontier Security agencies are looking into reports that a frontier triangle linking Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay has become a nexus for al-Qaida activities with alleged armament and training of Latin American youths and planning of cross-border attacks. ... more | .. |
 Commentary: Celebrity diplomacy No sooner did Libya's ragtag army of anti-Gadhafi insurgents retreat along the Mediterranean coast toward Benghazi than France's SSP 1 chartered a Falcon executive jet to meet with dissident leaders. ... more | .. |
  Kazakh leader cruises to re-election Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, in power for more than two decades, cruised to a landslide re-election victory in a country that could become a major resource supplier for the West. ... more |
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Lula pushes mega-oil project as Brazil prepares to host COP30
Trump slams paper straws, vows 'back to plastic'
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 Three killed in convoy attack in Pakistan Islamist rebels in northwestern Pakistan cut the throats of three security guards in the latest fatal attack on a NATO truck convoy headed for Afghanistan. ... more | .. |
 Iraq police media relations chief arrested Authorities have arrested the head of media relations at the police department for Iraq's Dhi Qar province after he wrote articles critical of the government, a local media watchdog said on Monday. ... more | .. |
 Suicide bomber kills 8 at Pakistan bus terminal A teenage suicide bomber killed a Pakistani anti-Taliban militia leader and seven other people on Monday, in the sixth bomb attack in as many days to hit the nuclear-armed country. ... more | .. |
 Gurkas in first wave of British military job cuts Debt-laden Britain said Monday that 2,600 troops would lose their jobs in a first wave of redundancies forced by defence cuts, with 150 Nepalese Gurkha troops among the first to go. ... more |
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 UN inspectors back from trip to Syria: IAEA UN inspectors have returned from a trip to Syria and are now analysing the data they collected there, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday. ... more | .. |
Kazakh strongman scores landslide election win Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev scored a crushing win Monday in presidential polls that saw him harvest over 95 percent of votes and raised worries about democracy in Central Asia's richest state. ... more | .. |
 Tsunami washes away hopes for Japan's young Japan's tsunami swept away more than just the buildings in places like Rikuzentakata - it took people's dreams and their plans for the future. ... more | .. |
 Air strike on car in Sudan kills two: state official An air strike on a car on Sudan's Red Sea coast killed its two passengers and destroyed the vehicle on Tuesday evening, the head of the state assembly told AFP. ... more |
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