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India tests nuclear-capable ballistic missileBhubaneshwar, India (AFP) Dec 13, 2009 India successfully tested a nuclear-capable ballistic missile from a ship near the east coast on Sunday, a defence official said. The Dhanush, which has a short range of 350 kilometres (220 miles), is a navy version of the surface-to-surface Prithvi missile and can carry both nuclear and conventional warheads. The missile was successfully fired from a ship in the Bay of Bengal, said S.P. Das, director of Integrated Test Range, a unit of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation. "The test met all the requisite parameters," he said. ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 11, 2009A senior Al-Qaeda figure was killed in a drone strike in northwest Pakistan, a US official told AFP Friday, as President Barack Obama urged Islamabad to step up the fight against militants. The unmanned aircraft killed a man in the "upper-tier" of the Al-Qaeda network, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The raid was part of a growing drone war by the United States ag ... more  
London (AFP) Dec 13, 2009Tony Blair's admission that Britain would have backed the Iraq war even if he knew it did not have weapons of mass destruction sparked outrage Sunday and calls for his prosecution for war crimes. The former British prime minister, who backed the US-led invasion in 2003, told the BBC he would "still have thought it right to remove" Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein because of the threat he posed to ... more  
Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan (AFP) Dec 13, 2009British Prime Minister Gordon Brown vowed a renewed effort to defeat the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan as he made an unannounced visit to troops in the field Sunday. Brown made the visit two weeks after ordering the deployment of 500 extra British troops to Afghanistan alongside a surge of 30,000 US forces, part of a sweeping new strategy to turn around the eight-year war. He held ta ... more |
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Taipei (AFP) Dec 12, 2009Taiwan is probing allegations that local companies might have sold specialised equipment to Iran that could be used to make nuclear weapons, a report said Saturday. "We are looking into the matter," Hsu Chun-fang, a spokesperson for Taiwan's Bureau of Foreign Trade was quoted by the Taipei Times as saying without elaborating. Export of sensitive items or to sensitive regions are restrict ... more  
Baghdad (UPI) Dec 11, 2009 Ukraine is to supply Iraq with arms and military equipment worth $2.4 billion and the United States will provide a $49 million border security surveillance system as Baghdad scrambles to build up its security forces amid worsening violence as U.S. troops depart. Meantime, VSD LLC, a subsidiary of Q.E.D. Systems Inc. of Virginia Beach, has been awarded a $23 million contract from the Nav ... more 
Lima (UPI) Dec 11, 2009 Peruvian arms buying in China for undisclosed amounts but on favorable credit terms has confirmed analysts' assessment that China has joined a lineup of arms manufacturers seeking new markets in Latin America. China launched a major fightback in Latin America last year as its markets elsewhere shrank in response to the recession. Amid projection of a steep rise in China's own energy con ... more |
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