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Europe’s satellite navigation system might be opened up for military use, the European Commission has suggested, in a policy shift that sets it on a collision course with Britain and the United States.

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WASHINGTON North Korea’s claimed explosion of a nuclear device could be a rare opportunity for the United States and China: uniting the rival powers on an urgent global crisis and shaping the future of a relationship often plagued by suspicion

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The sudden revival of Egypt’s plans to develop nuclear power have already prompted speculation by intelligence sources that Mubarak may have more than just future energy supplies in mind. In fact, Mubarak said Egypt was “not starting from zero”. He continued: “We have knowledge of this technology, enabling us to move forward [...]

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US Air Force General reveals details of possible US aerial offensive against Iran should diplomacy fail to solve dispute over Tehran’s nuclear ambition; says ‘doing it alone’ is not an option for Israel

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QUITO, Ecuador — Another swing to the left is in the air in South America, with a political ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez favored to win Ecuador’s presidential election on Sunday.

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In March, two American professors subjected the U.S.-Israel relationship to a skeptic’s examination. John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, the former from the University of Chicago, the latter from Harvard, published a paper under the title “The Israel Lobby: Israel in U.S. Foreign Policy.” One version appeared in the London Review of Books; [...]

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Buried beneath the heaps of hot words on North Korea’s nuclear test, the announcement in Moscow on Monday about the Shtokman natural-gas deposit off Russia’s Arctic coast almost escaped attention, despite its comparable lethal fallout in world politics.

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NEW DELHI, OCT 12 : About 56% of Indians and 46% Chinese feel they are partners rather than rivals, even as 66% of Americans see the two Asian biggies as rivals, according to a public opinion survey on Americans and Asians by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA).

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BEIJING Chinese monitoring has found no evidence of airborne radiation from North Korea’s claimed nuclear test, an official involved in the monitoring said Friday.
Experts and governments have been unable to confirm North Korea’s claim of a successful nuclear test.

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A serious question necessarily arises: Is the deterrent capability of the United States eroding before our eyes? The world’s only superpower is not capable of preventing countries from crossing nuclear red lines. In fact, we are witnessing a collapse of the entire international community’s deterrence; the failure in regard to North Korea [...]

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BEIJING — The presidents of China and South Korea agreed Friday to support sanctions to achieve a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula but want to see stability maintained, a South Korean official said. He said they discussed a U.S.-proposed draft U.N. resolution on penalties but reached no agreement.

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WASHINGTON – North Korea’s claimed test of a nuclear weapon is only the tip of what frightens the rest of the world. It’s all the more worrisome because the country has shown itself to be a virtual bazaar for spreading missiles, conventional weapons and nuclear technology around the globe.

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On China’s border with North Korea, local villagers fear the fallout from Pyongyang’s nuclear aspirations.
The tension is hardly confined to the border, of course. Many governments fear that North Korea could be on the verge of another test—especially as the first may have been less successful than planned. And earlier today, the [...]

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EVER since the Berlin conference of 1883, which Belgium’s King Leopold II called “the sharing of Africa’s cake,” the West has assumed exclusive rights over sub-Saharan Africa.
But, while centuries of struggle to end colonial rule and apartheid have not changed this much, now Western influence is being challenged by China, which likewise [...]

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By Charles Krauthammer
It shall be the policy of this Nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.
– President John F. Kennedy, Oct. 22, 1962
WASHINGTON [...]

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The failure of world powers to rein in North Korea means that we face a bleak and terrifying future.
THE BIRTH announcement of each new arrival into the nuclear family in the past 50 years has been greeted by existing members with loud condemnations and dark prognostications.

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A MAJORITY of South Koreans believe Seoul should respond to North Korea’s nuclear test announcement by starting its own nuclear weapons program, a survey has found.
North Korea said on Monday it had detonated a nuclear device, causing great anxiety in the South, which is still technically at war with its neighbour and [...]

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