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Britain says France defence deal intact despite EU rowLondon (AFP) Dec 11, 2011 Britain said Sunday that a defence pact signed with France a year ago under which the two countries would would share aircraft carriers was still intact despite last week's EU summit farrago. After British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday vetoed a new EU treaty aimed at saving the euro, Foreign Secretary William Hague also said that relations between Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy remained "warm". In November 2010 Britain and France signed two pacts agreeing unprecedented def ... read more |
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  5,000 surface-to-air missiles secured in Libya: US A top US official said on Sunday that a team of US and Libyan bomb disposal experts has secured about 5,000 surface-to-air missiles stockpiled during the regime of Moamer Kadhafi. ... more | .. |
  NATO to halt Iraq mission at year-end: official NATO will withdraw its Iraq training mission at year-end after Baghdad refused to grant it legal immunity, Iraq's top security adviser said on Sunday, mirroring the nearly-complete pullout of US forces. ... more | .. |
  N. Korea warns against Christmas lights near border North Korea warned South Korea on Sunday of "unexpected consequences" if Seoul displays Christmas lights near the tense border, and vowed to retaliate for what it called "psychological warfare". ... more | .. |
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  Israel's growing wall of steel fences off Egypt Far from the uproar of Cairo's Tahrir Square, Israel has been doubling its efforts to erect a giant, impenetrable security barrier along its 240-kilometre (150-mile) border with the Egyptian Sinai. ... more | .. |
 Iraq forces ready internally but face external gaps Iraqi forces can handle internal security, but the focus on quelling domestic violence has left major gaps in their ability to defend against external threats, US and Iraqi officers and officials say. ... more | .. |
  US vacates air base in Pakistan: officials The United States on Sunday vacated a Pakistani airbase following a deadline given by Islamabad in the wake of anger over NATO air strikes last month that killed 24 soldiers, officials said. ... more | .. |
 US invasion unleashed Iraqi 'creative anarchy' While the past eight-plus years of US forces in Iraq were dominated by headlines of brutal violence and fitful reconstruction efforts, Iraqis note the 2003 war has also unleashed a "creative anarchy." ... more |
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Rocket Lab launches 5th satellite batch for Kineis IoT constellation
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  India mulling naval protocol to prevent skirmishes at sea In the light of some incidents involving warships from Pakistan and China, India is considering a protocol on the lines of the Cold War era arrangement between the US and the erstwhile USSR warships to avoid any skirmishes at sea. ... more | .. |
  Top China official urges more 'forceful' web controls A top Chinese government official has urged authorities to be "more forceful" in the way they manage the web, state media said, as Beijing tries to tighten online controls over fears of social unrest. ... more | .. |
 In Iraq war, a revolution in battlefield medicine The Iraq war ushered in dramatic advances in battlefield medicine, with the effects of homemade bombs leading the US military to radically change how it treats wounded soldiers. ... more | .. |
 US pullout leaves an Iraq in flux The withdrawal of US troops from Iraq more than eight years after the invasion leaves a country grappling with political deadlock and vulnerable to regional interference and a domestic insurgency. ... more |
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 US cuts loose from Iraq war still hampered by its legacy The United States has cut loose from its long war in Iraq aiming to meet other challenges, particularly in Asia, but is still hampered by the war's legacy and the continuing conflict in Afghanistan. ... more | .. |
 Iraq PM sets off for US ahead of pullout Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki headed to Washington on Sunday, for the first time as leader of a country virtually empty of foreign troops as the US withdrawal from Iraq nears its final days. ... more | .. |
 Gaza father, daughter hurt in Israeli raid: medics A Palestinian father and his daughter were wounded in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City early on Sunday, Palestinian medics said. ... more | .. |
 El Salvador apologizes 30 years after massacre El Salvador's government asked for "forgiveness" Saturday over a civil war-era massacre in 1981 in which soldiers executed more than 1,000 people, nearly half of them children. ... more |
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SFL Missions Inc. Secures CSA Contract for HAWC Satellite Concept Study
Multinational research project shows how life on Earth can be measured from space
How life's building blocks formed on early Earth examined through polyester protocell formation limits | .. |
 NATO supplies attacked in Pakistan Fuel and other supplies for U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan were destroyed in southwestern Pakistan this week in brazen attack by unidentified gunmen. ... more | .. |
  Iran's boasts over US drone reveal inconsistencies Iran's boast it downed a highly sophisticated US drone has handed the Islamic republic a propaganda coup while revealing numerous inconsistencies in both Iranian and US accounts of the incident. ... more | .. |
 Nobel winner blasts lack of support for Yemen uprising The international community has not provided enough support for the uprising in Yemen, "Arab Spring" activist Tawakkol Karman lamented after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday. ... more | .. |
 China's Huawei cuts back in 'complex' Iran Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies says it will cut back its business in Iran, where it aids state-run telecom operators, due to the "increasingly complex situation" there. ... more |
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 Outside View: Will U.S. enable Holocaust? In April 1940, the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin ordered the massacre of Poland's military officer corps and intelligentsia. Taken out into the woods and gunned down, thousands of Poles lost their lives in the Katyn Forest Massacre. ... more | .. |
 Seoul shopping for cruise missiles South Korea has set aside $343 million toward buying 177 air-to-surface cruise missiles next year, a report in The Korea Herald newspaper said. ... more | .. |
  Russia may boycott NATO summit: ministry Russia said Friday it may boycott a May summit with NATO if the two sides failed to bridge their differences over a US-backed missile defence system for Europe. ... more | .. |
  Niger strengthens its army to tackle al-Qaeda: minister Niger has strengthened its armed forces to "stand up to the terrorist threat," in particular Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Defence Minister Mahamadou Karidjo said Friday. ... 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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 Japan extends sanctions against Iran Japan on Friday decided to extend its sanctions on Iran after similar moves by other nations to beef up international measures against Tehran's nuclear programme. ... more | .. |
 US drone penetrated 250 km: Iran protest The US drone which Iran said it had brought down penetrated 250 kilometres (150 miles) inside the Islamic republic's air space, state television's website reported on Friday. ... more | .. |
  Chinese man takes home-made raft to Taiwan democracy A Chinese man who claimed he wanted to experience Taiwan's democracy first hand was arrested after he tried to reach the island on a home-made styrofoam float, officials said Friday. ... more | .. |
 British soldier killed by Afghanistan IED blast A soldier died in a British hospital Thursday after being fatally wounded by an improvised explosive device in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence announced. ... more |
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Pentagon analyzing Iranian footage of US drone American experts are analyzing Iranian footage of what appeared to be a downed US drone that allegedly entered Iran's airspace last week, the Pentagon said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Satellite Tracking Specialist, Track24, wins Canadian Government Contract Track24 has won a contract to supply the Canadian government with short burst data (SBD) services from Iridium Communications Inc., operator of the world's furthest reaching communications network. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Awarded Contract to Advance Thermal Imagers Manufacturing Raytheon has been awarded $13.4 million by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Low Cost Thermal Imaging Manufacturing (LCTI-M) program. The goal of LCTI-M is to dev ... more | .. |
 The ethics of unmanned vehicle warfare The U.S. military has faced criticism over the ethics of the use of the unmanned aerial vehicles as the number of strikes carried out with drones skyrocketed in recent years. ... more |
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