WASHINGTON, March 23 (UPI) — U.S. military air superiority is at risk as U.S. Air Force combat planes age, Congress was told this week.
“I’m concerned … that our dominance in combat air power is a risk,” Rep. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., the ranking Republican on the Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces of [...]

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Karachi, Mar.23 : Gwadar, located on the southwestern coast of Pakistan, was just a small fishing hamlet at one time, but now is set to become not only a hub of shipping and commercial and industrial activities, but also a key geo-strategic location.
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March 23 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Navy, after nearly six years of warnings from Pentagon testers, still lacks a plan for defending aircraft carriers against a supersonic Russian-built missile, according to current and former officials and Defense Department documents.
The missile, known in the West as the “Sizzler,” has been deployed by China and may [...]

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Tokyo, March. 23 (PTI): Though India and China have formulated the political parameters and basic guidelines in resolving their boundary dispute, the two sides are yet to reach an agreement on “substantive” issues, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here today.
“Both sides have agreed on political parameters and basic guidelines in resolving the border issue. [...]

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New uranium mines could be built in Australia after a 24-year ban.
Australia has 40% of world uranium reserves, but mining is currently allowed only in two of Australia’s eight states and territories.
But state-level governments elsewhere banned new mines in 1983, amid wide public support and worries about nuclear proliferation.
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Europe, and the United Nations, are facing what could turn out to be a defining moment.
In 1999, following the conclusion of NATO’s war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1244, which established the political conditions for ultimately resolving the status of the province of Kosovo.
Even though the war had [...]

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The Iranian Shahab-4 missile is believed to be a derivation of the 1,350-1,500 kilometer range North Korean No-dong missile delivering a 1,000-760 kg warhead and the follow on Taep’o-dong-1/Paeutusan-1 launch vehicles. The first indications of the development of the Shahab-4 came in The Washington Times on September 11, 1997 when it stated the following: “The [...]

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London is demanding the immediate release of the British sailors and marines and has summoned the Iranian ambassador to the foreign office. The Ministry of Defense claims Iranian vessels seized the British seamen on the Iraqi side of the waterway while they were searching merchant vessels for smuggled arms and terrorists in the Siban area [...]

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US-Russian relations are heading for a potential crisis unless Washington drops its unilateral approach to foreign policy, a senior Russian lawmaker has warned.
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Russia’s strategic nuclear forces now have 762 missiles capable of launching 3,373 nuclear warheads. The Strategic Missile Force wields 503 ICBMs and 1,853 nuclear warheads. The Russian Navy operates 12 strategic submarines with 636 nuclear warheads, and the Air Force has 79 strategic bombers with 8,884 long-range cruise missiles.
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Japan and the United States are developing a joint operation plan for the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and U.S. forces to deal with contingencies. While the two sides discuss defense cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, Tokyo is preparing to question Washington on just how Japan fits under the U.S. nuclear umbrella, and how that umbrella actually [...]

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SANTA ANA, Calif., March 22 (AP) — As a top engineer for a major American military contractor, Chi Mak helped develop some of the most advanced naval technology in the world, including silent-running propulsion systems that can make submarines virtually undetectable.
Now Mr. Mak stands accused of stealing those secrets for the Chinese.
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However, Gen. Pace told reporters he did not regard China as a threat and hopes to further rebuild military ties that have languished since a midair collision between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese jet fighter over the South China Sea in 2001.
He said he would urge additional joint search-and-rescue exercises and expand contacts [...]

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China is building a satellite positioning system that they may reserve solely for military use, and only in wartime at that. This would enable China to jam GPS, or destroy GPS satellites, while using their more distant (and thus more difficult to destroy) satellite positioning system. All this came out of what was shaping up [...]

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A German Judge Cites Koran in Divorce Case
He beat her and threatened her with murder. But because husband and wife were both from Morocco, a German divorce court judge saw no cause for alarm. It’s a religion thing, she argued.
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The present debate isn’t really about missile defense, but about Europe and Russia’s relationship with the United States.
The loud Kremlin protests against Washington’s plans for missile defense are effective because they are aimed at the anti- American fault line that divides Europe. When Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld spoke about an “old” and a “new” [...]

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