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Study Explores Injury Risk in Military Humvee CrashesBaltimore MD (SPX) Aug 29, 2012 A new report by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy examines the risk factors for injuries to U.S. military personnel from crashes involving highly mobile multipurpose wheeled vehicles (HMMWVs), more commonly known as Humvees. According to the study, involvement in combat and serving as the vehicle's operator or gunner posed the greatest risk for injury. It is the first published analysis of factors associated with Humvee injury risk in a deployed setting, and ... read more |
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 New era in camouflage makeup: Shielding soldiers from searing heat of bomb blasts Camouflage face makeup for warfare is undergoing one of the most fundamental changes in thousands of years, as scientists described a new face paint that both hides soldiers from the enemy and shiel ... more | .. |
  Embraer awarded 1st phase of $6B cordon Brazilian aviation and defense manufacturer Embraer has won the contract for the first phase of 10,000-mile border security cordon aimed at beating organized crime, drug and people smuggling and poaching in the forests. ... more | .. |
  US 'withheld' emails on WikiLeaks suspect: defense Lawyers for the US soldier on trial for passing a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks on Tuesday accused the government of withholding emails about his pre-trial detention. ... more | .. |
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  Turkey seeks increased arms exports The Turkish government is making determined efforts to promote its indigenously produced armaments. ... more | .. |
  Japan looks to buy disputed Senkakus Japan's government is hoping to buy the private Senkaku Islands to bolster the country's claim to ownership in the face of increasing Chinese counter-claims. ... more | .. |
  Six soldiers killed in Iraq violence Bombings and gun attacks targeting the Iraqi army left six soldiers, including a colonel and a lieutenant, dead in and north of the capital on Tuesday, security and medical officials said. ... more | .. |
  N. Korea, Japan hold first direct talks since 2008 Japan and North Korea are set to meet Wednesday in their first face-to-face talks in four years as diplomats see if they can start laying the groundwork to overcome a troubled history. ... more |
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 S.Africa's Tutu snubs event over 'indefensible' Blair Peace icon Desmond Tutu on Tuesday said he would boycott an event in protest at sharing a stage with former British leader Tony Blair over his "morally indefensible" support of the US-led Iraqi invasion. ... more | .. |
  Russia not 'running away' from Syria: army chief The head of Russia's army said Tuesday that Moscow had no intention to end its military presence in Syria despite the escalating violence and threat of President Bashar al-Assad's fall. ... more | .. |
 Two Qaeda suspects killed in Yemen drone attack Two suspected Al-Qaeda members were killed in a drone missile strike on their vehicle in Hadramawt province of eastern Yemen on Tuesday, security sources said. ... more | .. |
 Iraq election chief gets prison sentence for graft Iraq's outgoing election commission chief told AFP that he and two other senior election officials were found guilty of graft on Tuesday and handed suspended one-year prison sentences. ... more |
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 Syria rebels dream of weapons to down aircraft On the edge of the Saif al-Dawla district of Aleppo, a commander argues with a rebel. He has ordered him to try to take out a regime tank, alone and with a single rocket-propelled grenade. ... more | .. |
 Iran 'will never stop' uranium enrichment: official Iran "will never stop" its controversial uranium enrichment, the country's envoy to the IAEA said on Tuesday, on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement ministerial meeting in Tehran. ... more | .. |
  NATO transition in Afghanistan 'irreversible': top commander The transfer of security control from a US-led international mission to Afghan troops has reached an irreversible phase, a top NATO commander said Tuesday, as he outlined moves to stem insider attacks on NATO forces. ... more | .. |
 UN leader to press Iran on nuclear drive, rights: spokesman UN leader Ban Ki-moon will stress to Iranian leaders this week that they must take "urgent" action on the country's nuclear drive and human rights, a UN spokesman said Tuesday. ... more |
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Climate change increases risk of successive natural hazards in the Himalayas
GMV teams up with +Atlantic CoLAB in AIR4Health project to enhance public health forecasting
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 Euro crisis weighs on Merkel's China trip German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week makes her second trip of the year to China, with the eurozone debt crisis taking centre stage as it begins to drag on the two global economic powers. ... more | .. |
 Clinton to press on China disputes in Asia tour US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will warn against the use of force between China and its neighbors on a tour of Asia that comes amid mounting tension over sea disputes, officials said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Israel's FM urges Morsi to visit Jerusalem Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday urged Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi to warm relations with Israel by visiting Jerusalem. ... more | .. |
 Canada mulls new army mobile surveillance The Canadian army is considering acquisition of a new mobile, vehicle-mounted surveillance system amid revelations of shortcomings of its present assets. ... more |
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 Carrier strike group rushes to PersianGulf The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis is being rushed to the Persian Gulf as tensions between Israel and Iran edge closer to the boiling point. ... more | .. |
 Uganda investigates helicopter crashes Uganda is attempting to determine why three of its helicopters crashed earlier this month. ... more | .. |
 Japan unveils video of clash with pro-China activists Japan's Coast Guard on Monday released an edited version of video footage showing a clash between pro-China activists and its patrol ships near disputed islands earlier this month. ... more | .. |
 Three US Marines punished over Taliban urination video Three US Marines have pleaded guilty and been sanctioned for urinating on the corpses of Afghan Taliban fighters and posing for pictures with the dead, the Quantico-based unit said Monday. ... more |
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Low-carbon energy investment hit record $2.1 tn in 2024: report
World awaits Trump tariff deadline on Canada, Mexico and China
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 Small arms trade grows to $8.5 billion a year: survey Legal trade in small arms has grown to at least $8.5 billion a year and if the illict trade was added it would come to more than $10 billion, a weapons research group said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Iraq minister quits over PM 'interference' Iraqi Communications Minister Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi told AFP he quit his post on Monday, accusing Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of "political interference" in his ministry. ... more | .. |
17 beheaded at party in bloody Afghan day Taliban Islamist insurgents beheaded 17 party-goers, 10 Afghan soldiers were killed and two NATO troops shot dead in a new insider attack in a bloody day across Afghanistan, officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
 US arms sales nearly triple in 2011, researchers say US arms transfers to other countries nearly tripled last year to $66.3 billion, giving America a market share of nearly 80 percent, government researchers said Monday. ... more |
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 Iraq attacks kill 10 people A series of attacks in and around Baghdad and in north Iraq on Sunday killed 10 people, including three soldiers and two policemen, security and medical officials said. ... more | .. |
 Iran seeks NAM support in nuclear showdown Non-Aligned Movement leaders should take a stand against Western sanctions at a Tehran summit at the end of the month, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Sunday, adding that many NAM members backed Iran's nuclear programme. ... more | .. |
 Libya's under-fire interior minister quits Interior Minister Fawzi Abdelali resigned on Sunday after coming under fire for the performance of security forces during a surge of violence that has rocked Libya, an official from his office told AFP. ... more | .. |
 Rebels claim downing of combat helicopter in Damascus A rebel Free Syrian Army group claimed it had shot down an army helicopter in Damascus on Monday and that the pilot had been killed, a spokesman said. ... more |
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