PARIS - Nicolas Sarkozy, a blunt and uncompromising pro-American conservative, was elected president of France Sunday with a mandate to chart a new course for an economically sluggish nation struggling to incorporate immigrants and their children.
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We are ready for another war with the Jews, Kassem reportedly said.
He bragged that Hizb’allah has taken delivery of new missiles and had built new concrete bunkers in preparation for another round.
Kassem’s statements were made brazenly, knowing as he does that the UN ceasefire resolution that brought an end to the Second Lebanon war expressly [...]

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According to a recent nationwide survey carried out by Gallup Pakistan, a majority (76%) of Pakistan’s population favor that Pakistan should support Iran in case of an attack by the U.S.
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The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have become an unprecedented field study in human relationships with intelligent machines. These conflicts are the first in history to see widespread deployment of thousands of battle bots. Flying bots range in size from Learjets to eagles. Some ground bots are like small tanks. Others are the size of [...]

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BERLIN (Reuters) - World powers have failed to persuade Iran to halt its nuclear program despite nearly four years of diplomatic efforts and are beginning to confront the ultimate choice — accept it or stop it at all costs.
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Russia will build more warships, both surface vessels and submarines, to ensure the country’s security, the Itar-Tass news agency reported on Sunday, citing the navy commander-in-chief Vladimir Masorin.
“It is second in its might in the world. We should not feel shy, but be proud of our navy, which now has strategic submarine forces equipped [...]

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“They have all our technology now,” NBC News quotes one law enforcement official as saying, referring to the Chinese.
The reality, though, is not quite so simple.
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First, anyone can go to a sporting goods or military equipment store — in person or online — and plunk down $3,000 to $4,000 to walk out with night vision [...]

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JERUSALEM, May 6 (Reuters) - When Egypt and Syria launched a surprise joint offensive in 1973, many Israelis braced for a fight to the finish.
But historians now agree that, for all their rhetoric about destroying the Jewish state, the attacking Arabs — who were eventually repelled — only intended to recapture the Sinai peninsula and [...]

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Intel report sees Putin willing to risk new battle with West.
A report by the Russian desk of Britain’s secret intelligence service sees a “growing possibility” President Vladimir Putin is prepared to resurrect the climate of the Cold War.
The report by MI6 chief John Scarlett to Downing Street comes at a time when a series of [...]

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Beijing is burnishing its image as the Games near, hoping to avoid fates that befell Moscow and Seoul.
Late in march, the actress Mia Farrow wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal calling for a boycott of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Denouncing China for its support of the murderous Sudanese government (which happens [...]

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Japan’s recent expression of intent to purchase American-made F-22 fighter jets is encouraging a race to see who in Northeast Asia is going to have the latest fighter planes. The competition also comes in response to deployment of the fifth generation jets to U.S. forces in the region.
Japan is the first country to say it [...]

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