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 Tehran (AFP) Oct 27, 2009 
Iran will accept the broad framework of a UN-brokered uranium deal but wants "very important changes," state television said on Tuesday, adding Tehran will offer its formal response within 48 hours. As state-owned Arabic-language television Al-Alam said Iran will demand key changes to the deal, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated that Tehran has the right to pursue nuclear technology. ... read more 
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Oct 28, 2009The U.S. Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Lockheed Martin a $1 billion contract for continued development and evolution of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System. Under the contract, Lockheed Martin's Surface-Sea Based Missile Defense line of business, in Moorestown, N.J., will design, develop, integrate, test, deliver and install further Aegis ... more
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What led to US-Israeli strikes on Iran: protests, nuclear power and proxies
Canada PM backs US strikes on Iran US, Israeli strikes on Iran 'totally irresponsible': ICAN Trump says frustrated with Iran, but mediator sees 'breakthrough' IAEA stresses 'urgency' to verify Iran's nuclear material Trump says frustrated with Iran talks as US personnel leave Israel Sweden's PM rules out hosting French nuclear arms in peacetime Macron to set out how France's nuclear arms could protect Europe IAEA confirms 'technical' discussions on Iran's nuclear programme next week Iran urges US to drop 'excessive demands' to reach deal 
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Washington (UPI) Oct 27, 2009 Deliberations regarding a future strategy for Afghanistan need to include a consideration that the predominantly Afghan, Pashtun-based Taliban may have the capability of infecting other ethnic groups and becoming a greater transnational fundamentalist threat. It is well-known that the Taliban was spawned and gained support among the Pashtuns in the Kandahar area of southern Afghanistan. ... more  
Washington (AFP) Oct 27, 2009Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a top Chinese general on Tuesday that US-China military ties were too important to be be derailed by occasional disagreements, officials said. In a meeting with General Xu Caihou, China's second-ranking officer, Gates stressed the need to preserve a dialogue between the US and Chinese militaries regardless of disputes or policy differences, Pentagon press ... more  
Paris (AFP) Oct 27, 2009A French court slapped jail terms Tuesday on the main players in a network that smuggled arms to war-torn Angola and included an ex-minister and the son of the late president Francois Mitterrand. Russian-Israeli tycoon Arkady Gaydamak was convicted in absentia for organising the 1990s arms sales and sentenced to six years in jail at the trial that exposed a ring of corruption at the highest ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 27, 2009US National Security Adviser James Jones travels to Moscow this week for talks aimed at forging a new US-Russian agreement on limiting their nuclear arsenals, the White House said Tuesday. Jones, a retired US general, was to meet with senior Russian officials for talks on an arms agreement that would succeed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) which expires on December 5. His ... more 
Tehran (AFP) Oct 27, 2009An influential MP on Tuesday opposed shipping Iran's entire low-enriched uranium abroad in one batch but came out in support of a UN-drafted nuclear deal, which a colleague hailed as a "win-win" plan. The United States, meanwhile, said six world powers held talks on Monday in a bid to maintain a united pressure on Iran to come clean on its controversial nuclear programme as Tehran weighs the ... more 
Washington (AFP) Oct 27, 2009Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva said Tuesday that a deal giving the US military access to Colombian bases will be signed at the end of the week. The accord, which has led to howls of protest in several South American capitals, "will be signed when I return to Bogota at the end of the week," Silva told journalists during a visit to Washington. "It is possible" the signing will ... more |
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