The just concluded trip of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to India is an extremely important event not only for those two countries but also for the whole world. This is because this trip has laid the foundation of a trilateral axis consisting of China, Russia and India. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh went to [...]

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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil’s newly retired ambassador to the United States said policy at Brazil’s Foreign Ministry was being increasingly dictated by a group of short-sighted, anti-American leftists.
Roberto Abdenur, 64, whose interview was published in the magazine Veja on Saturday, retired last week after 44 years at Brazil’s Itamaraty, or Foreign Ministry. His last [...]

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A PRIZE-WINNING Iranian nuclear scientist has died in mysterious circumstances, according to Radio Farda, which is funded by the US State Department and broadcasts to Iran.
An intelligence source suggested that Ardeshire Hassanpour, 44, a nuclear physicist, had been assassinated by Mossad, the Israeli security service.
Hassanpour worked at a plant in Isfahan where uranium hexafluoride gas [...]

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Vice President Dick Cheney’s May visit to Kazakhstan and his subsequent criticism of Russia spotlight the rebirth of a centuries-old “Great Game” of geopolitical maneuvering by outside powers for control of Central Asia. Rather than campaigns waged between Russia and Britain for trade routes to India, however, the current struggle is for access to Caspian [...]

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) — What has happened to the Bulava missile, the submarine-launched new star of Russia’s formidable strategic weapons arsenal?
Everything seemed to be shining on the Bulava. It had three successful test launches in a row. It was not some radical new design with untested technology but a mature adaptation of the already [...]

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A Chinese navigation satellite was successfully hauled into orbit Friday to kick off a busy year in space that will include the launch of the country’s first probe to study the Moon.
Liftoff of the Beidou satellite was at 1628 GMT (11:28 a.m. EST) from the Xichang space launch center in southwestern China’s Sichuan province. The [...]

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