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Iran has enough material to make nuclear bomb: US admiral Washington (AFP) March 1, 2009
The United States believes Iran has enough fissile material to build a nuclear bomb, top military officer Admiral Mike Mullen said on Sunday, marking the first time Washington has made such an assessment. "We think they do, quite frankly," Mullen told CNN when asked if Iran had enough nuclear material to manufacture an atomic bomb. "And Iran having a nuclear weapon, I've believed for a l ... read moreBangladesh deploys troops to hunt mutineers: officials
Dhaka (AFP) March 1, 2009Bangladesh's government will deploy army troops across the country to hunt border guards behind a deadly mutiny that killed at least 77 people, an official said Sunday. An Armed Forces spokesman told AFP, on condition of anonymity, that a nationwide operation would be launched from Monday to track down those believed to be behind a 33-hour revolt in the capital. A home ministry official, ... more
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Russian bomber intercepted as Obama visited Canada
Ottawa (AFP) Feb 27, 2009Canadian fighter jets intercepted a Russian heavy bomber skirting Canada's Arctic frontier within 24 hours of US President Barack Obama visit to Ottawa last week, officials said Friday. The Tupolev Bear strategic bomber and missile carrier did not enter Canadian airspace but came close enough for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to scramble two CF-18 fighter jets to ward ... more Obama seeks defense budget increase for 2010
Washington (AFP) Feb 26, 2009President Barack Obama Thursday unveiled a 663.7-billion-dollar defense budget, up a modest 1.5 percent from 2009, but projected a sharp decline in Iraq and Afghanistan war spending in the coming years. The new administration has signaled it hopes to make savings through a planned withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and from cuts in expensive new weapon programs, although Obama's budget reques ... more Obama deferred to military's advice on Iraq: Gates
Washington (AFP) Feb 27, 2009President Barack Obama heeded the US military's advice in deciding to postpone by three months the pullout of most US troops from Iraq beyond a promised 16-month deadline, his defense secretary said Friday. Obama chose to slow the pace of withdrawal after hearing the views of the commander in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, as well as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen ... more When The War Machine Runs Out Of Cash Part One
Washington (UPI) Feb 27, 2009 There has been an avalanche of news in recent weeks about more and more rescues within the U.S. domestic economy: the banks, the auto sector, homeowners and almost everybody else has required emergency bailouts on a gigantic scale, followed ominously by deeper and deeper Wall Street dives. Almost overlooked in all these tidal waves of woe was the announcement that the Obama administrati ... more |
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Italy challenges EU over key climate toolRome (AFP) Mar 6, 2026 Italy is once again challenging the EU's green transition, pushing for an overhaul of the bloc's carbon trading scheme and changing the way the tool operates to try to cut electricity bills. ... more
Swiss vote down proposal for massive 'climate fund'Geneva (AFP) Mar 8, 2026 Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a proposal to create a multibillion-dollar climate fund aimed at combating global warming and its consequences, voting against it by a large margin. ... more
AI giants promise Trump to pay for increased energy needsNew York (AFP) Mar 4, 2026 Seven US tech giants at the forefront of artificial intelligence committed Wednesday to offset the costs of their increased electricity needs through investments in energy infrastructure. ... more
CesiumAstro buys Vidrovr to embed AI across satellite communicationsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2026 CesiumAstro has acquired Vidrovr in a move to integrate artificial intelligence directly into its space communications systems, payloads, and satellite platforms, extending AI-driven analytics and r ... more
Behind Space Innovation The Growing Role of Outsourcing ServicesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2026 Explore the reasons outsourcing has become the norm in space innovation. Discover how it helps teams reduce turnaround times, lower costs and improve results within a short time. ... more
After oil, US moves to secure access to Venezuelan mineralsCaracas (AFP) Mar 4, 2026 US mining companies are lining up to invest in Venezuela, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said during a visit to Caracas on Wednesday as he pushed for greater access to critical minerals. ... more
Left, right and faithful unite to demand human control over AIWashington, United States (AFP) Mar 4, 2026 A coalition spanning US conservative figure Steve Bannon, progressives, labor unions and faith groups announced Wednesday a joint declaration of principles on artificial intelligence, framing the effort as a pushback against what they called Silicon Valley's reckless deployment of AI. ... more
Europe should focus on industrial AI, SAP saysWalldorf, Germany (AFP) Mar 4, 2026 Europe should focus on competing in industrial AI, a top executive at German software giant SAP said, as the continent plays catch-up in the race for the cutting-edge technology against the United States and China. ... more
Questions over AI capability as tech guides Iran strikesParis, France (AFP) Mar 7, 2026 The latest bout of fighting between the United States, Israel and Iran has seen AI deployed as never before to sift intelligence and select targets, although the technology's use in war remains hotly debated. ... more |
Missiles Hit Pakistan As US Sidesteps Questions
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) March 1, 2009At least eight militants were killed Sunday in a suspected US missile strike which destroyed a Taliban hide-out in northwest Pakistan, security officials said. Top US military and defence officials refused to confirm or deny the attack, but said Washington was determined to counter militants operating along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. "Two missiles fired by a suspected US drone h ... more Russia expecting new US missile defence proposals
Moscow (AFP) March 1, 2009Russia is awaiting new proposals from the United States to resolve a dispute on missile defence that has chilled ties between the two Cold War ex-foes, President Dmitry Medvedev was quoted Sunday as saying. Medvedev's comments were among the most upbeat yet by Moscow on the chance of an improvement in ties under new US President Barack Obama after the missile defence row and Georgia war sent ... more Chinese Navy Has Global Potential As Economic Interests Expand Part Two In the future, wherever Chinese merchant ships go, that area may be taken as China's national interest frontier and the trace of the "Chinese Aegis" class DDG may appear. Moreover, this theory gives the People's Republic of China a more convincing rationale for building its own aircraft carriers. Clearly, the conventional Western analysis that the People's Liberation Army navy is follo ... more China, US agree to resume key military exchanges
Beijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2009China and the United States agreed to resume high-level military exchanges during talks here that a senior US defence official described Saturday as his best ever. The two-day defence contacts that ended Saturday were the first between the world powers in five months after China suspended military exchanges over a proposed US arms package to Taiwan -- a sensitive issue in Sino-US relations. ... more |
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Northrop Grumman moves to boost B-21 Raider outputLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2026 Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force are ramping up production capacity for the B-21 Raider to field the new bomber more quickly. The company describes the program as a demonstration of its perfo ... more
Dubai airport briefly suspends operations after interceptionDubai (AFP) Mar 7, 2026 Dubai airport, the world's busiest for international traffic, suspended operations Saturday before partially resuming services, after an air defence interception in the area during attacks from Iran. ... more
France's Dassault accuses Airbus of sabotaging European aircraft projectSaint-Cloud, France (AFP) Mar 4, 2026 France's Dassault Aviation on Wednesday accused Airbus, which represents Germany and Spain in the multibillion-euro FCAS warplane programme, of seeking to sabotage the project. ... more
Water emerges as a dangerous new war targetParis, France (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 Attacks on water systems are uncommon in wartime, but they have appeared in the war in the Middle East with strikes on desalination plants - critical infrastructure for millions of people in the arid region. ... more
Hydromea and Equinor prove subsea wireless link from seabed to cloudLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 Hydromea and Equinor have completed what they describe as the world's first real-time, high-bandwidth wireless data link from the seabed directly to a cloud environment, demonstrating a subsea-to-sa ... more
Warming El Nino may return later this year: UNGeneva (AFP) Mar 3, 2026 The warming El Nino weather phenomenon could return later this year as its cooling opposite La Nina fades away, the United Nations said Tuesday. ... more
Residents warned 'crocs everywhere' after north Australia floodsSydney (AFP) Mar 8, 2026 Police in Australia's Northern Territory warned of 'crocs everywhere' on Sunday and said they had moved more than a thousand people across the state into shelter after massive floods. ... more
Shelter rankings and shower-timing apps: Israelis, Palestinians adjust to Iranian rocketsJerusalem (AFP) Mar 8, 2026 What is Israel's best bomb shelter? And when is the best time of day to shower without interruption from a missile alert? ... more
Children must not be 'collateral damage' in Mideast war: UN expertsGeneva (AFP) Mar 4, 2026 The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child insisted Wednesday that children must be protected during the war in the Middle East, highlighting an alleged air strike on an Iranian school. ... more |
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