Russians take their place alongside the Chinese in a battle for resources to fuel their growing empires.
Late on a Friday night at the Simba Saloon in downtown Nairobi, music by the Kenyan pop sensation the Boomba Clan is playing, and the ties are coming off. At the bar, banker types in expensive suits swap news [...]

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The gigantic machines of Star Wars are fantasy: tomorrow’s battlefield will belong to micro-gadgets. We reveal some of the unmanned devices racing to enter the front line.
The designs are groundbreaking because for the first time they hint at the possibility of removing humans from the loop. Swarm Systems, based in London, is one of the [...]

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Israel may have tricked Syria radars
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 10 hours ago
ISRAELI fighter planes may have managed to escape detection by Syrian radars during their September 6 raid by forcing the detection system to make a mistake …
Report: Israel tricked Syrian radar United Press International
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Iran’s president calls wants Israel’s Jews moved to Canada, Alaska …
The Canadian Press - 11 hours ago
Ahmadinejad’s remarks came as millions of Iranians held rallies across Iran to protest Israel’s continued hold on Jerusalem, the city where Muslims believe …
Iran’s leader denounces Israeli policies Los Angeles Times
Iranian president lashes out at Israel Los Angeles Times
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SCO: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Led by China
CST: Collective Security Treaty. Led by Russia
* New alliance seeks cooperation not confrontation with the West
DUSHANBE: A Russia-led defence alliance signed an agreement on Friday to link up with a China-headed security body, but both sides denied they were challenging the Western alliance, NATO.
The agreement, signed in the Tajik [...]

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Huawei, founded by a Chinese military officer in 1988, got its start building military communications networks. “Huawei is up to its eyeballs with the Chinese military,” a Pentagon official told Bill Gertz of The Washington Times. A second Pentagon official said the deal is taking place at a time when the Pentagon has mounted an [...]

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Tiny ‘Tin Whiskers’ Imperil Electronics
The Associated Press - 20 hours ago
(AP) — They’ve ruined missiles, silenced communications satellites and forced nuclear power plants to shut down. Pacemakers, consumer gadgets and even a …
Within a whisker of disaster Fort Worth Star Telegram
A Look at Big Tin-Whisker Failures The Associated Press
Tiny ‘Tin Whiskers’ Plague Electronics The Associated Press
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More generally, and more disturbingly, the US Studies poll shows only 37 per cent of Australians having a positive feeling towards the US and 48per cent wanting a more independent foreign policy. (By contrast, at the nadir of the Vietnam trauma in 1975, only 26 per cent wanted a more independent relationship.)
Australians’ dramatic loss of [...]

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While the United States has hailed the latest deal to end North Korea’s nuclear weapons programmes as a big step forward, analysts warned Thursday that total disarmament remained a very dim prospect. Doubts remain over whether the secretive regime in Pyongyang is genuinely prepared to give up its atomic ambitions, or whether it is [...]

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MOSCOW — With Vladimir Putin’s announcement this week that he would head the pro-Kremlin United Russia party in December’s parliamentary elections, Russia’s new power configuration began to take shape. Ultimately, it will mean the extension of Putin’s authority and a triumph of manipulative politics. But as they have demonstrated, the Russian people won’t mind.
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