MOSCOW, March 16 (KUNA) — A high level Russian military official warned on Friday the United States from deploying an Air defense missile shield system in Europe, saying it will lead to another era of an arms race.
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Russia shows signs of wanting to withdraw from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed in 1987 ostensibly in response to US defense encirclement. Russia’s fears may not have a factual basis.
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The U.S. and China, which have had good relations since the 2-13 Beijing agreement, are waging a psychological war over how to deal with the Banco Delta Asia (BDA) issue in Macao.
The U.S. Department of Treasury plans to send Daniel Glaser, deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury Department who handles financial sanctions against North Korea, [...]

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The world seems headed for a showdown in the Middle East within the next two years over the issue of Iranian nuclear capacity. The stakes are high. On the one hand, there is the emergence of a new nuclear power, whose rhetoric and revolutionary record seem to pose an existential threat to Israel and challenge [...]

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Murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya was fearless in her pursuit of truth. In this shocking extract from her final book, she chronicles the death of Russian democracy
The day of the elections to the Duma, the [same] day Putin began his campaign for re-election as president. In the morning he manifested himself at a polling station. He [...]

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Proposals for Texas reflect how U.S. again is turning to this energy source
The number of nuclear-powered generators in Texas could triple in the next decade with several new projects in the works.
Expansions at the state’s two existing plants — Comanche Peak south of Dallas and the South Texas Project near Bay City — took steps [...]

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Finlandisation seems to be the net effect of Rudd’s (Australian governament’s opposition leader) closeness to China. But Rudd is not alone in this syndrome, as the week was to demonstrate.
For on Thursday my colleague Dennis Shanahan revealed that the US had proposed widening the trilateral security dialogue between Japan, the US and Australia to include [...]

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