Gross passenger volume this year will surpass 2.17 billion.
Zhang Yong went into a terrible stew after dialing the ticket booking number for more than 10 times. The telephone reminded him again and again that there was no ticket left for him to go back home. Like a migratory bird, Zhang Yong is used to going [...]

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Are the US and Israel heading for an armed showdown with Iran or is it brinksmanship aimed to pressurise the Iranians to cooperate in Iraq, roll back the enrichment programme, and give up support for the Shiite Hezbollah? Both the US and Israel view a nuclear weapons armed Shiite Iran as a threat to Israel’s [...]

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This year will likely see little improvement as the two governments limp home.
The year 2007 does not bode well for the alliance. One may argue whether the alliance has reached its lowest ebb in the past year or so, for it has been buffeted by many storms of varying intensity over its more than half-century [...]

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In the classic joke, two Berlin Jews are sitting side by side on a park bench in the mid-1930s. One is reading a Jewish newspaper with growing concern, the other is chortling over a Nazi Party newspaper.
The first one scolds him, “It’s bad enough you’re reading that anti-Semitic rag, but you’re laughing also?” His friend [...]

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Before being allowed into the heart of the conversion plant, journalists were told not to “overstep the boundaries” and observe a formal ban on taking pictures of the site’s exterior.
Then the assembled foreign and domestic media were given white protective clothes and headgear, as distinct from the blue clothing handed to the visiting International Atomic [...]

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During a press conference by the representative office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran held in Washington DC, in mid-August 2002, the existence of a secret nuclear facility at Natanz was revealed. Israeli military intelligence refers to the site as “Kashan.”
Natanz is located between Isfahan and Kashan in central Iran. The facility is [...]

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China is making geopolitical hay while the sun isn’t shining for America.
Chinese leaders have seen President Bush’s approval ratings continue a downward slide all over the world, according to the BBC’s latest universal survey. More important, previous public opinion polls showed China with a better image than America in friendly European countries — with the [...]

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An ideal aerospace command would provide the Indian armed forces the capability to monitor a vast region from outer space — the Strait of Hormuz in the West to the Strait of Malacca in the east, China in the north and the Indian Ocean in the south.
It would be an integration of various components of [...]

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Downing Street warns in landmark review of multiple threats to national security from terrorism, disease, energy shortages and pandemics
A disturbing vision of the dangers threatening the UK is to be revealed by the Prime Minister tomorrow when he unveils a landmark foreign policy review. Tony Blair will lay bare the challenges facing Britain, which include:
Threats [...]

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