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Russia could use bases for its strategic bombers on the doorstep of the United States in Cuba and Venezuela to underpin long-distance patrols in the region, a senior air force officer said Saturday. "This is possible in Cuba," General Anatoly Zhikharev, chief of the Russian air force's strategic aviation staff, told the Interfax-AVN military news agency. The comments were the latest sign ... read more
Tehran (AFP) March 14, 2009Former Iranian premier Mir Hossein Mousavi, who is planning to run for the presidency, said on Saturday that gains in nuclear and space sciences were the result of the 1979 Islamic revolution. Addressing around 1,000 people at a mosque in southern Tehran's lower-middle class Naziabad area, Mousavi said it was the "resistance" of the Islamic republic that had led to these achievements. ... more
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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 USS Gerald Ford leaves Crete as Iran talks begin: AFP Iran says US talks to focus solely on nuclear programme Iran insists not seeking nuclear weapon ahead of US talks 
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Dubai (AFP) March 14, 2009French President Nicolas Sarkozy is due to formally open his country's first Gulf-based military base in Abu Dhabi in May, the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat said on Saturday The Saudi-owned paper quoted French diplomatic sources as saying that Sarkozy would travel to the United Arab Emirates to inaugurate the base amid efforts by France to bolster relations in the oil-rich Gulf region. ... more  
Washington (AFP) March 14, 2009The top US military commander has expressed confidence that his Pakistani counterpart, General Ashfaq Kiyani, is committed to civilian rule and is not plotting a military takeover. "He is committed to a civilian government, he is committed to the democracy that's there," Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen told PBS television Friday. "And in my view, the last thing in th ... more  
Washington (AFP) March 13, 2009The US Defense Department said Friday it opposed a key lawmaker's proposal this week to split in two a 35-billion-dollar plan to replace the Pentagon's aging fleet of in-air refueling tankers. "(Defense) Secretary (Robert) Gates' position on a split buy is clear to all involved. He thinks it is impractical and inefficient and he is adamantly opposed to it," said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morr ... more 
Beijing (AFP) March 13, 2009Chinese navy officers warned the dispatch of US destroyers to protect a surveillance vessel involved in a standoff with Chinese ships is an inappropriate response, state media said Friday. A press report quoted unnamed Chinese navy sources as saying the deployment signalled a US intention to "keep on pressing" Beijing in the South China Sea. "The timing and the extent (of the deployment) ... more |
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Paris (AFP) March 13, 2009France's sole aircraft-carrier, the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle, was out of action again Friday, only months after undergoing a lengthy refit, the navy said. The pride of the French fleet would be immobilised for weeks if not months after abnormal wear was discovered in links between the two of the four turbines and their propellor shafts, a statement said. The problem was discover ... more  
Washington (UPI) Mar 13, 2009 Israel's Iron Dome very-short-range anti-ballistic missile defense system is skyrocketing way over cost and is still years from effective deployment even though southern Israel has been under low-tech Qassam rocket bombardment for eight years. So why doesn't the Israeli military establishment buy America's tried and tested Phalanx super machine gun to do the job instead? "The Phalanx ... more  
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 13, 2009Iraqi military forces will take possession of 140 M1A1 Abrams tanks with U.S. military assistance by the summer of 2010, U.S. officials said. U.S. military teams in charge of training and mentoring Iraqi national forces said the M1 will be sent in shipments of 35 over the next 18 months, though it was unclear if they were donated or acquired under the Foreign Military Sales program, the American military ... more  
Washington (UPI) Mar 13, 2009 It is essential to devise a credible and viable strategy to raise developing societies out of backwardness and into modernity in order to provide a sense of hope for their people and thereby drain the reservoir of desperation upon which Islamic fundamentalist ideologies and their terror groups feed. The recognition that this will be a monumental task should not be a deterrent. Of course ... more |
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