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The US administration is planning to create a new military command to counter cyber attacks on the country's sensitive computer networks, a US defense official said on Wednesday. The move would be part of a planned overhaul of cyber security policies now being weighed by the White House, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP. The "cyber command" would likely fall un ... read more 
Arlington, Va., April 21, 2009 Gen. Norton Schwartz, the U.S. Air Force chief of staff, faced biting criticism from his service's senior leaders in a video teleconference last week. They accused him of betraying the service's requirements process by siding with Defense Secretary Robert Gates in terminating key airpower programs without rigorous analysis and signaled that Schwartz's credibility is at risk among his A ... 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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Jerusalem (AFP) April 21, 2009Israel wants to buy a rocket intercept system from the United States to protect against militant fire from the Gaza Strip, Defence Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview published on Tuesday. "The Vulcan-Phalanx canons and radar will be part of a multi-layer defence to intercept rockets," Barak told the Haaretz newspaper. "Such defence, as far as I am concerned, is a strategic goal," h ... more  
Beijing (AFP) April 21, 2009China's navy will mark its 60th anniversary with a ceremony starting Thursday dubbed the "naval Olympics" that will display the country's nuclear-powered submarines for the first time, state media said. The four-day event involves 21 vessels from 14 countries in the eastern city of Qingdao and includes a fleet review to be held Thursday -- the fourth one in China since 1949, the official ... more 
Moscow (AFP) April 22, 2009Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that over 40 percent of those eligible for military service were not fit enough, amid a government drive to modernise the armed forces. "It is known that there are problems with the presence of young men prepared for military service," Interfax news agency quoted Medvedev as saying at a government meeting at Ryazan in central Russia. ... more 
Moscow (AFP) April 21, 2009A top Russian official on Tuesday accused the US administration of President Barack Obama of intensifying missile defence plans and said Russia saw no basis for big cuts in its nuclear arsenal. In an interview with Interfax news agency, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov revived threats to site Iskander strategic missiles in the Kaliningrad exclave near Poland if Washington's missile shi ... more |
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Washington (AFP) April 21, 2009The US Senate on Tuesday easily confirmed veteran diplomat Christopher Hill to be ambassador to Baghdad after weeks of bitter debate over his handling of the six-country nuclear talks with North Korea. Senators voted 73-23 to approve President Barack Obama's choice for one of the most sensitive US diplomatic posts, in which Hill will help manage the withdrawal of all US forces from war-torn ... more 
Baghdad (AFP) April 22, 2009The founder and chairman of micro-blogging service Twitter said during a visit to Baghdad on Wednesday that the US election had convinced him to try and get more people "tweeting" in Iraq. Jack Dorsey, among nine executives on a US State Department organised trip, held discussions with local mobile telephone companies and said he is determined to ensure that Iraqis could use Twitter on their ... more  
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) April 22, 2009Taliban militants in Pakistan's Swat valley have moved into another district in a bid to broaden their control despite a deal designed to end extremist violence, officials said Wednesday. Hundreds of armed Taliban from the scenic northwestern valley have entered Buner district, only 110 kilometres (68 miles) from the capital Islamabad. The militants have set up checkpoints, occupied mosq ... more  
Washington (AFP) April 22, 2009A little known Pentagon agency that trained US troops to resist torture promoted the use of some of the same interrogation techniques on Al-Qaeda, which were aired and quickly authorized at high levels of the US government, a Senate investigation has found. Warnings by military lawyers about both the legality and the effectiveness of techniques that were modeled on methods used by China to e ... more |
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