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Monday's assault on a police school and a wave of spectacular attacks underlines Pakistan's weakness and the danger posed by militants to the future of the nuclear-armed nation, analysts said. The commando-style assault on the training ground transformed a normally peaceful commuter belt near Pakistan's cultural capital Lahore into a war zone, leaving at least 20 people dead in pitched battl ... read more 
Seoul (AFP) March 31, 2009North Korea is preparing to indict two detained US journalists after it accused them of illegally entering the communist country, state media said early Tuesday. "The illegal entry of US reporters into the DPRK and their suspected hostile acts have been confirmed by evidence and their statements," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. The report said "a competent organ of the DPRK ... 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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Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 31, 2009The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon Company a $106 million contract for production of the Joint Standoff Weapon C-1. "With this contract award, the first network-enabled weapons in the world will be produced to meet warfighter requirements," said Cmdr. Andrew Kessler, JSOW deputy program manager in the U.S. Navy's Precision Strike Weapons program office. "The JSOW C-1 will maintain all th ... more  
Paris (AFP) March 30, 2009European aerospace group EADS insisted Monday it was still committed to building the A400M military transport after its Airbus unit warned it may not be able to complete the much-delayed aircraft. Airbus chief executive Thomas Enders had told the German weekly Der Spiegel the firm was unable "in current conditions" to complete the 20-billion-euro A400 programme, which is already running thre ... more 
Washington (UPI) Mar 30, 2009 The Obama administration may need to decide -- and sooner rather than later -- whether to negotiate with, sanction or attack Iran because of its ongoing programs to develop nuclear weapons and the intercontinental ballistic missiles to carry them. The efforts of the previous Republican administration of President George W. Bush to restrict the Iranian nuclear program failed because of R ... more 
Washington (UPI) Mar 30, 2009 "Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars." Jesus' famous words in the Olivet prophecy have been true for pretty much every generation of history for the past 2,000 years. So why should things be any different now? New U.S. President Barack Obama and the Democratic foreign policy establishment in the United States know they can't outlaw war. Believe it or not, that was actually done in ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) March 30, 2009South Korea and the United States expressed renewed concern at North Korea's upcoming rocket launch, saying it seems linked to a nuclear weapons drive rather than a space programme as Pyongyang claims. A satellite photo taken Sunday clearly showed a missile on the launch pad at Musudan-ri on the northeast coast, just days before the scheduled blast-off. The communist state says it will l ... more 
Washington (AFP) March 30, 2009US, South Korean and Japanese envoys to the North Korean nuclear disarmament talks have discussed how to "maintain close coordination" if Pyongyang test fires a missile, an official said Monday. US envoys Stephen Bosworth and Sung Kim each held separate meetings on Friday with their counterparts Wi Sung-lac of South Korea and Akitaka Saiki of Japan, according to Gordon Duguid, a State Depart ... more  
Dharamshala, India (AFP) March 30, 2009Tibet's exiled government said Monday it was trying to boost computer security systems after a report concluded they were being targeted by a China-based espionage network. Canadian researchers found that the network, known as GhostNet, had infiltrated government and private computers around the world, with Tibetan exiles based in the Indian hill town of Dharamshala -- including the Dalai La ... more  
Washington (AFP) March 30, 2009Barack Obama this week meets for the first time with President Hu Jintao of China, which is putting the new US leader on notice it sees itself as a power to be reckoned with. With both sides professing a desire to work together, few expect any fireworks when Obama meets with Hu on Wednesday in London on the eve of the Group of 20 summit on the global economic crisis. But under the surfac ... more |
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