A mass mailed Trojan horse uses fear of World war III to trick people into opening the malicious attachment, security firm F-Secure warned over the weekend.
E-mail messages with dire subject lines such as “Iran Just Have Started World war III,” “Israel Just Have Started World war III,” “USA Just Have Started World war III” and [...]

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CAIRO, April 10 (UPI) — Moscow and Cairo may collaborate on Egypt’s new plans to build nuclear power plants to fuel its electricity demand.
Russia’s minister of energy and industry said Tuesday during a visit to Cairo the two sides are drafting a civilian nuclear power agreement.
Egypt announced in September it will restart its nuclear [...]

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Washington -– President Bush has signed a new law extending U.S. military assistance to aspiring NATO members Albania, Croatia, Georgia, Macedonia and Ukraine.
The NATO Freedom Consolidation Act of 2007 urges admission of the five countries into the alliance and authorizes new funding for military training and equipment for them, the White House said in a [...]

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Russia is preparing its own military response to the US’s controversial plans to build a new missile defence system in eastern Europe, according to Kremlin officials, in a move likely to increase fears of a cold war-style arms race.
The Kremlin is considering active counter-measures in response to Washington’s decision to base interceptor missiles and radar [...]

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Washington’s decision to eschew soft diplomacy with China for a more assertive stance on economic relations appeared to threaten U.S.-Chinese relations. On April 9, the United States sued China (NPR) in the World Trade Organization court over Beijing’s failure to address intellectual property rights and open its market to American DVDs, books, and movies. China’s [...]

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In a move that raised more questions than it answered, the world’s leading natural gas producers agreed April 9 to form a committee to explore collaborative efforts (FT) at price controls. Officials from the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) member states denied any intent to form a “cartel,” but the distinction is semantic—under any label, [...]

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China is developing an “impressive” array of space weapons, including missiles and jammers, and is moving toward placing nuclear weapons in space to attack U.S. satellites, the commander of U.S. strategic forces told the Senate yesterday.
The Chinese military has “undertaken what we would call a very disciplined and comprehensive continuum of capability against … our [...]

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The Zippe-type centrifuge is a device designed to collect Uranium-235. It was developed in the Soviet Union by a team of 60 German scientists working in detention, captured after World war II. The centrifuge is named after the team’s lead experimenter, Gernot Zippe.
Natural uranium consists of two isotopes; the majority (99.3 percent) is U-238, while [...]

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TAIPEI—Taiwan kicked off a month of military exercises on Tuesday designed to test the island’s defences in the event of attack by giant neighbour China, which considers the island its own.
The exercises come amid calls for Taiwan to move forward with plans to buy advanced weapons from the United States, which recognises Beijing’s “one [...]

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Bolton said he thought the United States should adopt a harder stance against the Iranians, but has been stymied by its more conciliatory European allies, who have tried without success to pressure the Iranians into cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
“What will it take for Europe to come to the conclusion that Iran is [...]

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Throughout the 1990s, strategic concerns over long-running conflicts in East Asia—from the division of the Korean peninsula to tensions across the Taiwan Strait to the Indian-Pakistan nuclear competition—shaped U.S. policy in the region. Although the Sino-Soviet rift during the Cold war provided a basis for U.S. relations with communist Beijing, post-Soviet Russia developed a growing [...]

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With news yesterday that Iran has begun injecting uranium hexafluoride gas into 3,000 centrifuges at its Natanz nuclear facility, the Islamic nation could be less than one year away from being able to enrich weapons-grade uranium.
International reports persist that Iran has made improvements to the advanced P2 centrifuge designs it bought from the black market [...]

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1. Arab leaders have no interest in genuine peace with Israel.
2. Israeli-Arab peace will come on the Arabs’ timetable.
3. All minorities living within the Arab world are under siege.
4. The Arab world is not about to make an exception for the Jews.
5. Arab regimes also demonize non-Muslim and non-Arab peoples living beyond the Arab [...]

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April 10 (Bloomberg) — Iran said it is aiming to install 50,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium as part of its nuclear program, a day after announcing that the work has reached an industrial scale in defiance of United Nations instructions.
Iran’s aim is not only “to install 3,000 centrifuges at its Natanz nuclear facility but [...]

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