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 Tokyo (AFP) June 16, 2009 
A Japanese newspaper reported Tuesday that Kim Jong-Il's third son visited Beijing this month to tell the Chinese leadership that he had been anointed as the reclusive state's next leader. The Asahi Shimbun said that Kim Jong-Un arrived for the secret visit by air around June 10 and met Chinese President Hu Jintao and other senior Chinese leaders, citing unnamed sources close to North Korean ... read more 
Seoul (AFP) June 16, 2009North Korea has finished preparatory work at a new launch pad for long-range missiles on its northwest coast, a report said Tuesday. Chosun Ilbo newspaper quoted a government source as saying the launch structure has been installed and a hangar has been completed at the Dongchang-ri launch site. "Large girders have recently been installed and the two or three months of preparatory work a ... more
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Paris (UPI) Jun 15, 2009 The re-election of Iran's firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is grim news for U.S. President Barack Obama. Little now remains of his hopes that diplomacy, respect and the offer of a new start in relations would resolve Tehran's nuclear challenge. With oil above $70 a barrel, Iran can defy even tougher sanctions and short of military action it is not easy to see any way to prevent its ... more  
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Jun 15, 2009 French President Nicolas Sarkozy, accompanied by an Airbus full of Cabinet ministers and business tycoons, recently flew to Abu Dhabi to inaugurate France's first permanent military base in the Persian Gulf -- and to hustle some of the big defense contracts coming up in the region. Abu Dhabi is the richest of the seven sheikdoms that make up the United Arab Emirates, and France is a ... more 
Yekaterinburg, Russia (AFP) June 15, 2009Russia Monday hosted a summit of a security forum seen as a counter to US power but without Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who put off his trip after his disputed re-election. Officials said that Ahmadinejad would not be appearing on the first day of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the central Russian city of Yekaterinburg, but was still expected to arrive on ... more  
Islamabad (AFP) June 15, 2009Pakistan's army chief Monday took a fighter jet trip over the northwest region where troops are battling Taliban militants, and vowed to defend the nation "at all costs", an official statement said. General Ashfaq Kayani, joined by the air force chief, visited soldiers at an operating base before the trip on an F-16, a day after the government announced an expansion of their seven-week-long ... more |
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Joint Base Balad, Iraq (SPX) Jun 16, 2009The Air Force's newest intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft flew its first combat sortie June 10 over Iraq. The MC-12 Liberty, assigned to the 362nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, arrived in Iraq June 8 and took off from Joint Base Balad at approximately 2:30 p.m. local time for a four-hour mission. "This is truly a success story," said ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) June 15, 2009Most US troops have already moved outside Iraqi cities and the American pullout from the country's urban centres, due by the end of the month, is on schedule, the top US commander said on Monday. General Ray Odierno added that American forces will leave the restive northern city of Mosul as well. "The dark days of previous years are behind us," Odierno told reporters at a press ... more 
Kabul (AFP) June 15, 2009General Stanley McChrystal, who took command of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan Monday, is a former special operations commander whose elite forces are credited with battlefield successes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said in May that he nominated McChrystal to replace General David McKiernan because "new thinking" was needed at a time when President Barack Obama ... more 
Vienna (AFP) June 15, 2009Iran's nuclear programme was in the spotlight of a meeting of the UN atomic watchdog here Monday, following the country's disputed presidential election. In his opening address to the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-member board, director general Mohamed ElBaradei urged Tehran to take up the US offer of dialogue over its disputed programme. "I am encouraged by the new initiative ... more |
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