In the long history of Egyptian-Palestinian relations, and in particular the relationship between Egypt and Gaza, there has been nothing to rival the current crisis in Gaza for intensity and for the implications it holds for future stability in the area. While it is too early to tell whether a fundamentally different relationship will develop [...]

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MOSCOW, July 14 — President Vladimir V. Putin formally notified NATO governments today that Russia will suspend its obligations under the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, a key cold war-era arms limitation agreement, in response to plans by the United States to deploy a missile shield in Eastern Europe.
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Apparently, Bashar Assad now believes Israel can be beaten. Assad is miscalculating. In the event Syria launches a gas attack on Israel, it’s a virtual certainty that Damascus would be instantly obliterated by Israeli nuclear weapons.
The thought of being gassed evokes a visceral response among Israel’s Holocaust survivors and their descendants that Damascus wildly [...]

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Indeed, even though that tour aroused some concern about Chávez’ typical challenging behavior, he still enjoyed good media coverage and a strong support among European politicians and members of parliament. Those were times when the British press called him “the new Latin American King” and both the Brazilian and the Chilean presidents attending the fourth [...]

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WASHINGTON — President Bush is set to instruct the Treasury Department to block assets associated with Iran’s revolutionary guard corps in a new executive order declaring financial war on foreign saboteurs of the Iraqi government.
The paperwork to designate Iran’s revolutionary guard corps, or IRGC, and Quds Force is now on the president’s desk awaiting his [...]

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Fourth, as Russia’s prominent and outspoken independent military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer has pointed out, one successful test does not make a successful program. The Bulava still has a long way to go before it has been operationally tested a sufficient number of times for it to be produced in significant numbers and deployed on the [...]

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“Japan and Australia are close military allies of US. India is now moving to join their ranks. This is a serious development. The UPA government has been forging a strategic military cooperation with US without any public debate or explanation. These steps are harmful to India’s strategic interests,” it added.
But, despite protests from the [...]

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The mosque incident is just the latest sign that the already close bond between Pakistan and China is becoming tighter. China is the chief supplier of Pakistan’s military equipment, and last week the two countries agreed to expand their defense ties. Meanwhile, Pakistan is reaching out to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, whose members include China, [...]

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Danis told a congressional advisory panel that the United States should closely watch China’s ambitious program to modernize its science and technology programs.
China’s goal in the past, he told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. was to catch up with the West. “Now, the Chinese are emphasizing the need to leapfrog and overtake the [...]

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