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London. A secret intelligence report has warned there is “little which can be done to stop Iran acquiring the components for a nuclear bomb”.
The shattering conclusion was made in a Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) report to Downing Street last week. It follows the visit by Sir John Scarlett, head of MI6, to [...]

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Plans related to Beijing’s strategic underground city have been released, which indicate that the city is designed to occupy 20 million square meters, and is scheduled for completion in 2012. Once completed, the underground city will be the largest of its kind in the world.
Around the same time, Chinese authorities disclosed the existence of other [...]

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We Should Welcome the Nationalism of Prime Minister Abe.
The conventional wisdom is that the ascension of Japan’s Shinzo Abe to the prime minister’s post is bad news for Japan and, by extension, the United States. Abe is an ardent nationalist who, the thinking goes, will unleash the country’s lurking militarism, thus isolating [...]

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LEVI, Finland Europe’s declining population will leave its armed forces facing a serious manpower shortage in 20 years, forcing governments to downsize their armies, develop more robot weapons or outsource military tasks, according to a report to be presented to EU defense ministers this week.
The report paints a worrying picture of an [...]

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THE United States will deploy four launch pads for Patriot interceptor missiles to Okinawa in southern Japan, it was reported yesterday.
The US announced in July it would set up Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles at Kadena Air Base and Kadena Ammunition Storage Area, both on Okinawa, following a series of missile tests by [...]

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WASHINGTON – Unless the South Korean government agrees to pay more of the cost of hosting American military forces, the
Pentagon may feel compelled to trim its presence there, a senior official said Monday.
Richard Lawless, the deputy undersecretary of defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, told reporters that the administration may have [...]

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Europe turns its back on Socrates, Locke, et al.
But now all that hard-won effort of some 2,500 years is at risk. The new enemies of Reason are not the enraged democrats who executed Socrates, the Christian zealots who persecuted philosophers of heliocentricity, or the Nazis who burned books. No, they are a [...]

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Russian troops in Georgia were put on “high alert” on Sunday and ordered to “shoot to kill if provoked” while defending Moscow’s two military bases in the Caucasian country. Tensions between Russia and Georgia are escalating after Tbilisi arrested four Russian officers on September 27 on spying charges.

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They are braced for a possible decision by Syrian president Bashar Asad to make good on his recent belligerent statements. Israeli officers and the security officers of local communities were cautioned ahead of Yom Kippur to stand ready for terrorist incursions from Syria, attacks on army posts and roads, roadside devices and [...]

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Weapons flowing, Palestinians training for battle
JERUSALEM – Hamas has succeeded in smuggling “hundreds of tons” of weapons from Egypt into the Gaza Strip and is preparing for the possibility of launching a large-scale conflict with Israel, according to a report by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party.

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