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Iran warns any attack would start 'world war'
Tehran (AFP) Aug 30, 2008A senior Iranian military commander has warned that any US or Israeli attack on the Islamic republic would start a new world war, the state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday. "Any aggression against Iran will start a world war," deputy chief of staff for defence publicity, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, said in a statement carried by the agency. Iran is under international ... more Maliki reshuffles Iraqi negotiating team: report 
Washington (AFP) Aug 31, 2008Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has reshuffled a negotiating team working on an agreement on withdrawal of US troops from Iraq amid worries the move may sabotage the deal, The Los Angeles Times reported on its website late Saturday. The newspaper said the reshuffle was disclosed to it by a senior Iraqi official close to Maliki, who also suggested that the two sides remained deadlocked ... more NATO Has No Moral Right To Judge As Putin Assails US Over Georgia 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 29, 2008NATO has repeatedly ignored the United Nations and international law and has "no moral right" to judge Russia for its decision to recognise two rebel Georgian regions, the Russian foreign ministry said Friday. "In recent years, NATO has on several occasions, demonstratively, ignored the UN charter and other norms of international law," foreign ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said. ... more North Korea marks long-range missile test 
Seoul (AFP) Aug 31, 2008North Korea on Sunday celebrated the 10th anniversary of test-firing its Taepodong-1 long-range missile, which it claims to be the country's first satellite rocket launch. The official Radio Pyongyang, monitored by Yonhap news agency, said in a boastful commentary that the North built "purely self-developed" rocket technology and could repeat the launch anytime it wants. "Our country's ... more US House speaker to make landmark Hiroshima visit 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 31, 2008House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set this week to be the highest-ranking sitting US official to visit the site of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, which bitterly divides opinion six decades later. No sitting US president or vice president has ever paid respects to the dead of the US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, a sore point for many survivors in Japan. Pelosi will travel ... more |
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Seoul (UPI) Aug 29, 2008 The arrest in South Korea of a North Korean spy disguised as a refugee highlights Pyongyang's never-ending espionage activities, despite Seoul's decade-long reconciliation efforts, Seoul officials said Thursday. The discovery of a spy ring, the second in a decade, also reveals the existence of deep-cover or sleeper agents from the communist neighbor, even when the two Koreas were engage ... more Taiwan to cut military spending amid warming China ties: report 
Taipei (AFP) Aug 30, 2008Taiwan plans to scale back its military spending in 2009 amid warming ties with rival China, it was reported Saturday. Military spending will be 315.2 billion Taiwan dollars (10 billion US), a decline of 10.4 billion Taiwan dollars on this year, the United Daily News said, citing a draft budget pending parliament's approval. It will account for 17.2 percent of next year's government ... more Russian Incursion Could Speed NATO Integration As Finland Eyes Membership 
Bled, Slovenia (AFP) Aug 30, 2008Russia's incursion into Georgia could speed up the integration of the former Soviet republic into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Georgian vice prime minister Giorgi Baramidze said Saturday. "I would not be surprised if this (integration) process would be going even quicker," following Russia's decision to send troops into the rebel Georgian region of South Ossetia, Baramidze ... more Russia to boost military ties with Tajikistan 
Dushanbe (AFP) Aug 29, 2008Russia and ex-Soviet Tajikistan are to boost military ties, the two countries said in a statement Friday after talks between President Dmitry Medvedev and Tajik counterpart Emomali Rakhmon. "Russia and Tajikistan intend to strengthen military cooperation in future in order to guarantee national and regional security," said the joint statement, released after the talks in the Tajik capital ... more Iran operating 4,000 nuclear centrifuges: report 
Tehran (AFP) Aug 29, 2008Iran is operating about 4,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges and it is installing several thousand more, the state news agency IRNA quoted the deputy foreign minister as saying Friday. "There are nearly 4,000 centrifuges working in the Natanz enrichment facility... another 3,000 centrifuges are being installed," IRNA quoted Alireza Sheikh Attar as saying in an interview with state television ... more |
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New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 31, 2008Louisiana's levees, which gave way during Hurricane Katrina three years ago causing massive flooding throughout the state, likely will withstand the powerful winds and torrential rains of Hurricane Gustav, Governor Bobby Jindal said Sunday. "If they are 100 percent accurate, they are saying the levees will barely hold or barely be overtopped," citing predictions from weather forecasters and ... more The stubborn hunker down in New Orleans as hordes flee 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 31, 2008As highways out of New Orleans crammed with people escaping the wrath of Hurricane Gustav, Jack Bosma shuttered the windows of his home, ate gumbo and stayed put. "I'm shutting my shutters, but then I'm going to drink," Bosma said, explaining that he and a group of longtime neighbors were hunkering down for the duration of the storm. He opened his "porch bar" and ate seafood stew, or gum ... more New Orleans scrambles to evacuate ahead of monster storm 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 31, 2008Desperate to avoid a repeat of the 2005 Katrina catastrophe, residents of New Orleans evacuated their city Sunday as a new hurricane hailed as "the mother of all storms" threatened the disaster-scarred metropolis. Bumper-to-bumper traffic clogged roads leading out of the city and shops began running low on fuel and emergency supplies as the "monster" Category Four hurricane barreled toward ... more Republicans shut down most of convention over Hurricane 
St Paul, Minnesota (AFP) Aug 31, 2008Republican White House hopeful John McCain suspended most of Monday's first day of his nominating convention, as Hurricane Gustav sparked political turmoil as it zeroed in on New Orleans. Party leaders scrambled to change their plans, keen not to be seen by voters as mounting a celebratory event while a potential natural disaster unfolds on the Gulf Coast, exactly three years after the ... more Cubans pick up pieces of Gustav-battered homes 
Los Palacios, Cuba (AFP) Aug 31, 2008Trees and telephone poles littered the streets and houses were missing doors and roofs, as residents of Los Palacios, western Cuba, despaired Sunday at hurricane Gustav's path of destruction. A slightly weakened Gustav -- still a dangerous Category 3 storm with winds near 125 miles (205 kilometers) per hour -- battered Cuba Sunday after claiming at least 81 lives in its tear across the ... more
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