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Iran scores with summit but wrongfooted by nuclear reportTehran (AFP) Sept 1, 2012 Iran scored a point against Western efforts to isolate it by hosting a summit this week of 120 Non-Aligned Movement countries, but its bid to boost its prestige was wrongfooted by a new report on its controversial nuclear activities, analysts said. Despite star guests Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and UN chief Ban Ki-moon strongly criticising Tehran policies during the summit, Iranian leaders and media were describing the event, in the words of the state newspaper Iran, as "the biggest success in ... read more |
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  China starts reshuffle ahead of leadership change China's ruling Communist Party has announced a reshuffle to a key post, state press said Sunday, a move widely seen as ushering in a once-a-decade leadership transition later this year. ... more | .. |
  Australia buys Growler systems for Hornets Australia has confirmed it will acquire Growler electronic warfare systems for its Super Hornet aircraft through the United States Foreign Military Sales process. ... more | .. |
  US drone strike kills four in northwest Pakistan: officials A US drone strike targeting a militant compound on Saturday killed at least four rebels in Pakistan's restive tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said. ... more | .. |
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 Rushed Afghan exit 'bad for image': Australia Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Sunday acknowledged the nation's weariness with the Afghan conflict after five more troop deaths but warned of "enormous" damage to its image if it pulled out now. ... more | .. |
  Freedom and fear in Syrian rebel town Residents of this rebel rear base north of the key battleground of Aleppo were cleaning up on Saturday after a Syrian regime air strike killed at least 12 people. ... more | .. |
  Iraq claims drop in deadly attacks The Iraqi government claimed on Saturday that the number of people killed in attacks nearly halved in August compared to the previous month, but AFP figures indicated violence remained largely unchanged. ... more | .. |
 US scales down military exercise with Israel: report The United States has significantly scaled down a planned joint military exercise with Israel most likely because of disagreements on how to deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions, Time magazine has reported on its website ... more |
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 N. Korea vows to expand nuclear deterrent North Korea on Friday vowed to expand and modernise its nuclear deterrent "beyond imagination" unless the United States changes its policy towards the communist nation. ... more | .. |
 Clinton says Pacific big enough for US, China US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that the South Pacific was big enough for both the United States and China but urged the Asian power to distribute its growing aid fairly. ... more | .. |
 Tokyo govt surveys disputed isles in row with China A team of Japanese surveyors Sunday sailed to a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea which the nationalistic governor of Tokyo wants to buy amid a widening diplomatic row with China. ... more | .. |
 Iran, pressed on nuclear activities, wraps up summit Iran on Friday closed a summit of non-aligned states after two days of sometimes conflictual speeches over Syria and stepped-up pressure over its nuclear programme that overshadowed the proceedings. ... more |
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  Apple shoots down drone strike tracking iPhone app The maker of an application that would alert iPhone users to US military drone strikes said Thursday that Apple has repeatedly shot down his efforts to get it into the App Store. ... more | .. |
  Taiwan to step up cyberwar capabilities: report Taiwan plans to beef up its cyberwar capabilities to counter a perceived threat from Chinese hackers targeting government and security websites, local media reported Sunday. ... more | .. |
 China says S. Asia ties 'no threat to third party' Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie says Beijing's increasingly close ties with South Asia are aimed at ensuring regional "security and stability" and are not intended to harm any "third party". ... more | .. |
  China dissident Chen accepts Taiwan visit invitation Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has accepted an invitation to visit Taiwan, Taiwanese lawmakers said Saturday, in a move likely to anger China. ... 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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 Northrop Grumman's BACN Completes 3,000th E-11A Mission Overseas Northrop Grumman's Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) has completed 3,000 missions flying aboard the E-11A Bombardier Global Express BD-700 aircraft in support of overseas contingency m ... more | .. |
 Boeing Fatigue Test to Validate Predicted Life of B-1 Bomber Fleet Boeing has begun a five-year fatigue test on the wing of a U.S. Air Force B-1 bomber to validate the predicted life of the bomber fleet, currently forecasted to be 2050. The test also will reveal po ... more | .. |
  Boeing Winged JDAM Completes First Round of Tests A winged version of the Boeing Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) that will triple the weapon's glide range to more than 40 miles is a step closer to production after completing wind tunnel tests a ... more | .. |
  Smartphone App Can Track Objects On the Battlefield as Well as On the Sports Field University of Missouri researchers have developed new software using smartphones' GPS and imaging abilities that determine the exact location of distant objects as well as monitor the speed and dire ... more |
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  Navy as an instrument of big strategy Joint Russian-US-Norwegian Northern Eagle-2012 exercises have ended in the Barents Sea. This kind of joint Russia-NATO exercises have become regular. What does Moscow's animated military cooperation ... more | .. |
 Boeing to Provide PBL for USAF F-15 Radars Boeing has received an $85 million Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) contract for continued support of U.S. Air Force F-15 mechanically scanned and Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars. ... more | .. |
  PAC-3 Missile Intercepts Tactical Ballistic Missile Target During Test Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 Missile successfully destroyed a tactical ballistic missile (TBM) target at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., in an Operational Test conducted by the U.S. Army Test and Evalua ... more | .. |
  Norway PM apologizes for terror response Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has apologized for the government's poor response following last year's terror attacks by a right-wing extremist. ... 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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 Outside View: Europe and Iranian sanctions Policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic view tough economic sanctions against Iran as perhaps the last peaceful means of curbing the Islamic Republic's appetite for nuclearization. ... more | .. |
  Thales in Australian, Indian ventures French defense industry giant Thales announced the official launch of its munitions business in Australia and a joint venture in India for radar systems. ... more | .. |
 Commentary: Global blivet When Barak Obama was elected president four years ago, he had the whole world on a string. Hundreds of millions, if not billions, saw him as the man who would restore America's greatness. An estimated 16 percent of Republican voters gave him the nod. ... more | .. |
 India halts Barak I missile purchase India has put on hold procurement of 262 Israeli-made Barak I missiles until the Central Bureau of Investigation finishes a report into possible corruption. ... more |
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 China says US defence chief to visit in September China said Thursday that US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta will visit in mid-September, the latest in a flurry of diplomatic activity between the two countries. ... more | .. |
 Defiant Iran doubles capacity at key nuclear site Iran has doubled its capacity at an underground nuclear facility, a UN atomic agency report showed Thursday, in spite of UN Security Council resolutions, sanctions and talk of Israeli military action. ... more | .. |
 UN nuclear watchdog has 'serious concern' over NKorea North Korea's nuclear programme is a matter of "serious concern," the UN atomic agency IAEA said in a report released Thursday, referring in particular to two sites Pyongyang has stopped it from visiting. ... more | .. |
 Syria rebels claim MiG shot down, Egypt causes storm Rebels said they shot down a MiG warplane on Thursday as violence whipped across Syria ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the country and along its borders. ... more |
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