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India announced Monday a hefty 24 percent hike in its defence budget for the upcoming fiscal year as its military fast-tracks acquisitions following the Mumbai militant attacks. "We are going through tough times. The Mumbai terror attacks have given an entirely new dimension to cross-border terrorism," acting finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said as he presented an interim budget to parliament ... read more 
Seoul (AFP) Feb 16, 2009North Korea on Monday fuelled speculation that it was preparing to test a long-range missile by suggesting it would go ahead with a rocket launch as part of what it called a space programme. Pyongyang has previously tested missiles under the guise of launching a satellite and analysts said the latest comments from the North indicated the communist state was on the verge of another attention ... more
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Trump says frustrated with Iran, but mediator sees 'breakthrough'
IAEA stresses 'urgency' to verify Iran's nuclear material Trump says frustrated with Iran talks as US personnel leave Israel Sweden's PM rules out hosting French nuclear arms in peacetime Macron to set out how France's nuclear arms could protect Europe IAEA confirms 'technical' discussions on Iran's nuclear programme next week Iran urges US to drop 'excessive demands' to reach deal Press Release from Business Wire: Sun Nuclear Iran FM says 'good progress' in talks with US Press Release from Business Wire: Proxima Fusion 
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Woodland Hills CA (SPX\) Feb 17, 2009Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $16 million contract from the U.S. Navy for production of five additional AN/UPX-24(V) interrogator sets for the U.S. Navy and the Australian Navy. The AN/UPX-24(V) is a shipboard identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) processor system that is used to identify aircraft or ships equipped with an IFF transponder. The system provides target data to the ... more 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 16, 2009Iranian Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar arrived Monday in Moscow for talks on military and technical cooperation, Interfax reported, citing a defence ministry spokesman. Iran's defence chief will meet his Russian counterpart Anatoly Serdyukov on Tuesday, the spokesman said. The visit which runs until Wednesday will also include talks with representatives from Russia's state-owned ... more  
Baquba, Iraq (UPI) Feb 16, 2009 With violence at a low point in Iraq compared with earlier years, and with the Strategic Framework Agreement between Washington and Baghdad now in place and restricting independent action by U.S. forces, boredom is increasingly an enemy for many combat soldiers and Marines. Operations are still staged against terrorists and extremist groups, but now they're conducted with Iraqi Security ... more  
Brussels (AFP) Feb 16, 2009Germany plans to send 600 more soldiers to Afghanistan to help provide security for presidential elections in August, a NATO diplomat said Monday. The troops, who add to around 3,500 German personnel already in Afghanistan, will arrive six weeks before the polls and remain until after any possible second round of voting is held in September, the diplomat said. The polls will be a key test ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Feb 16, 2009China and the United States will resume their military dialogue in late February after Beijing suspended it last year to protest US arms sales to Taiwan, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday. "On 27-28 February 2009, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense David Sedney will hold annual Defense Policy Coordination Talks with the People's Liberation Army in Beijing," spokesman Bryan Whitman told AFP ... more 
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Feb 16, 2009A suspected US missile strike on Monday destroyed an Afghan Taliban camp and killed 26 in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of Kurram, security officials said. At least one missile fired by a suspected drone struck the Taliban centre in Bhagan, part of a remote mountain stronghold for the hardline movement waging a fierce insurgency across the border in Afghanistan. "One missile fired by ... more 
Washington (AFP) Feb 16, 2009The White House on Monday promised that President Barack Obama would "shortly" make a decision on whether to pour thousands more US troops into the Afghan war. Spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters aboard Air Force One as Obama returned to Washington from a weekend in Chicago that the decision, the subject of intense speculation here, was still expected soon. "I would expect the president ... more 
Chicago (AFP) Feb 16, 2009Research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which can haunt former soldiers and survivors of catastrophes, is shedding light on who may be more vulnerable, and how best to treat each case. "Interestingly, there are some individuals who, when confronted with extreme stress, their hormone profile is rather unique," said Deane Aikins, a psychiatrist at Yale University in Connecticut ... more |
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