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Russia has purchased its first unmanned drones from Israel after its own manufacturers turned out to be ineffective at making the high-tech reconnaissance aircraft, a newspaper reported Tuesday. The deal for an initial purchase of 50 million dollars' (37 million euros') worth of drones was concluded in early April with Israel Aerospace Industries, the Kommersant daily said, citing a Russian ... read more 
Arlington VA (UPI), April 7, 2009Ever since Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, threw a monkey wrench into efforts to lease new aerial refueling tankers five years ago, the U.S. Air Force has been struggling to implement an alternate strategy. The Air Force has spent a lot of time and money on the process but still hasn't managed to buy a single new tanker. Now the 453 Eisenhower-era Bo ... more
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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 North Korea's Kim says could 'get along' with US but shuns South 
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Islamabad (AFP) April 7, 2009Pakistan's foreign minister said Tuesday US drone attacks are working to the advantage of the extremists, highlighting differences with Washington after talks with top US officials. Shah Mehmood Qureshi said he flagged up "red lines" in Pakistan's cooperation with the United States in fighting Islamist militants when he met US military commander Admiral Mike Mullen and envoy Richard Holbroo ... more  
Washington (AFP) April 6, 2009President Barack Obama's vaulting rhetoric over North Korea's missile launch ran into familiar resistance at the UN, exposing the cold reality confronting his vows of a new diplomatic dawn. The Stalinist state's weekend launch of a long-range missile came just days after Obama's first talks with the Chinese and Russian presidents in London, posing an early test of the leaders' declared aim f ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) April 7, 2009US President Barack Obama told Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Tuesday that he would pull American troops out of the country as planned, the premier's office said. "Obama renewed the American commitment to Iraq and to withdraw troops as previously planned," Maliki's spokesman Yasin Majid said, decribing the meeting in which the two leaders also discussed security as "positive." ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) April 7, 2009Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone said Tuesday that North Korea had the right to develop a space programme -- but only after it denuclearised and no longer posed a threat. Nakasone was speaking in Tokyo hours after China said Pyongyang had the right to "peaceful use of space" and refused to condemn its communist ally's rocket launch that passed over Japan on Sunday. North Korea ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) April 7, 2009Regardless of whether North Korea's rocket launch was a success or failure, analysts say the regime will spin the news to bolster support amid lingering uncertainty about the health of leader Kim Jong-Il. Sunday's launch was "a great historic event heralding the victorious advent of a great prosperous and powerful nation," the ruling communist party newspaper Rodong Sinmun proclaimed Tuesday ... more 
Seoul (AFP) April 7, 2009North Korea hailed its controversial rocket launch as a famous victory Tuesday but said reclusive leader Kim Jong-Il wept tears of regret that the money could not have been used to help his people. As world powers struggled to agree on a response, with China and Russia both urging restraint, the North's media boasted of the "historic" achievement of putting a satellite into orbit that was no ... more 
Beijing (AFP) April 7, 2009A week after some saw the advent of a new world order at the G20 in London, the idea of a "G2" that would put the United States and China at the head of international affairs is gathering momentum. But analysts say the concept of "Chimerica," meant to reflect a new geostrategic situation created by China's unprecedented rise in power, is neither realistic nor likely to appeal to Beijing. ... more 
Washington (AFP) April 7, 2009Iran poses no threat to the United States, Russia said Tuesday, rebuffing a key argument of President Barack Obama on whether to go ahead with a European missile shield bitterly opposed by Moscow. Former president George W. Bush had infuriated Russia by striking a deal to install 10 missile interceptors in Poland and related radar stations in the Czech Republic, saying they were needed to co ... more |
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