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US warplanes shot down an Iranian drone inside Iraqi airspace north of Baghdad last month, an American military spokesman said on Monday. "This was not an accident on the part of the Iranians," the unnamed spokesman said in a statement, without elaborating. "The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) was in Iraqi airspace for nearly one hour and 10 minutes and well inside Iraqi territory before i ... read more 
Caracas (AFP) March 15, 2009Venezuela has offered Russia unlimited use of an air base off its Caribbean coast, President Hugo Chavez said Sunday - the latest step to boost military ties between the two countries. "I told (Russian) President (Dmitry) Medvedev that any time Russia's strategic aircraft need to land in Venezuela to meet their strategic aims, Venezuela will be at their service," Chavez said. Chavez's ... more
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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 Snake-like robot unveiled for Fukushima debris removal Iran president says ahead of US talks not seeking nuclear weapon 'at all' North Korea's Kim shuns South but could 'get along' with US 
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Seoul (AFP) March 15, 2009Critics call them provocative and a threat to regional peace but North Korea sees its missile tests as a sure-fire way of grabbing Washington's attention, analysts say. The communist state last week notified international aviation and maritime agencies that it will launch a communications satellite between April 4-8. Seoul and Washington say this is a pretext to test its Taepodong-2 miss ... more  
Paris (AFP) March 15, 2009Recent weeks have seen a flurry of diplomatic activity on the Afghan front, but this should not disguise what Western envoys admit is a radical lowering of their ambitions for the war-torn land. Where once Washington and its allies boasted that Afghanistan would serve as a democratic model in a difficult region, officials now accept things are going badly and that NATO can't hope to win a ... more  
Washington (UPI) Mar 16, 2009 Writing in the respected Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz on March 5, analyst Yossi Melman noted that in July 2007, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak questioned Shmuel Kern, director of the research and development department of the Israeli Defense Ministry, as to exploring the possibility of buying Raytheon's Vulcan Phalanx super machine gun from the United States as an anti-ballistic missile wea ... more  
Washington (AFP) March 16, 2009The US Defense Department on Monday made light of Russia's possible use of air bases in Venezuela or Cuba for its strategic bombers. "That would be quite a long way for those old planes to fly," Geoff Morrell, Pentagon press secretary, told AFP. Another defense official said Russia's efforts to promote military ties with Venezuela and Cuba were not cause for serious concern. Top US ... more |
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Baghdad (AFP) March 15, 2009The US military's pullout from Iraqi cities in June will improve urban security as American troops refocus on catching insurgents in the countryside, a senior US official said Sunday. "The repositioning to peripheral locations in the city will improve security outside and in the city centres by choking off supply chains fuelling terrorism," Baghdad's deputy US commander Brigadier General Fre ... more 
Rawalpindi (AFP) March 16, 2009A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a restaurant in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding 17 others, police said. "The suicide bomber blew himself up on a motorbike outside a restaurant, which was set up close to the cab stand," said senior police commander Nasir Durrani in the city that neighbours the capital, Islamabad. ... more  
Washington (AFP) March 15, 2009Ali al-Marri may have shaken off his status as the last "enemy combatant" held in the United States, but he remains in a military prison facing trial in federal court on charges of helping the Al-Qaeda terror network. The 43-year-old former Illinois student next appears before a federal judge on Wednesday in Charleston, South Carolina, a rare reprieve from deep isolation since president Geor ... more  
Washington (UPI) Mar 16, 2009 In politics, as in life, be careful what you wish for. The Palestinians had long wanted a two-state solution, and, well, now they have a two-state solution. Two states, one in the West Bank and one in Gaza. Actually, better make that three states, if you count the state of confusion that the two opposing states have created. Indeed, confusion seems to be the dominating factor in the Mid ... more |
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