ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president warned the U.S. government Tuesday that their longtime ties will be harmed if Congress passes a resolution putting the genocide label on the mass killings of ethnic Armenians in Ottoman Turk lands during World war I.
President Abdullah Gul said in a letter there would be “serious troubles” if Congress [...]

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Fissile materials, ordinarily plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HEU) , are the essential ingredients in all nuclear weapons. Securing, consolidating, and eliminating fissile material stocks worldwide are the common imperatives in the overlapping efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons in the countries where they exist, halt their spread to still more countries, and prevent terrorists from [...]

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When the SCO was created on June 15, 2001, Russia was widely seen as the weak junior partner — the driving initiative for the new organization, after all, came from Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
But today Russia is in the saddle of the SCO. The extent and limits of the Sino-Russian relationship are set in the [...]

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What really ought to concern us about Hugo Chávez is not his strident anti-Americanism, his burgeoning friendship with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or his flirtation with nuclear technology, but his dangerous incompetence.
The mystery that shrouds the Caracas-Tehran air link is symbolic of the sinister but also bizarre relationship that is being swiftly cemented between Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s [...]

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France has taken a step towards rejoining the Nato military alliance with a series of proposals for closer relations between the organisation and the European Union.
In recent weeks both President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Defence Minister, Hervé Morin, have spoken about the possibility of ending four decades of French isolation from the US-dominated military command [...]

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A sharp debate is under way in the Bush administration about the significance of the Israeli intelligence that led to last month’s Israeli strike inside Syria, according to current and former American government officials.
At issue is whether intelligence that Israel presented months ago to the White House — to support claims that Syria had begun [...]

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Iran says developed new smart bomb
Ynetnews, Israel - 8 hours ago
Last September Iran showed off a longer-range missile in public for the first time and proclaimed a string of anti-Israel slogans, in a military parade held …
Report: Iran develops new optical smart bomb Xinhua
Iran developes new 2000-pound (900-kilogram) smart bomb Persian Journal
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Irony of ironies: The principal champion of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is the United States Navy. Yet predictably few organizations would suffer more than America’s naval forces from a supranational government of the oceans empowered by U.S. accession to that treaty.
The absurdity of this situation was on display last week as the [...]

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IT’S time to get tough with China. On issue after issue — human rights, trade, Darfur, Iran — the leaders in Beijing have been playing a destructive role. And now, in Burma, they are blocking the United Nations from imposing sanctions on a military regime that is brutally repressing pro-democracy protests.
China’s enormous economic and military [...]

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Is China a threat that needs containment and rollback or an opportunity that needs engagement and even selective emulation? How much more or less should we (as a country and as individuals) be focusing on China? All this week, Andrés Martinez and Joseph Farah debate relations with China.
Today, Farah and Martinez discuss the broad question [...]

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Taiwan pulls controversial missile from parade: source
Reuters - 2 hours ago
Taiwan has been pushing ahead with development of missiles to ward off the growing threat from China’s massive military buildup and has taken steps to boost …
Taiwan to demonstrate military prowess at National Day parade International Herald Tribune
Hsiung Feng won’t be displayed: MND Taipei Times
Taiwan: New [...]

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More details are emerging in the case of the three Islamists who were recently arrested for planning a bomb attack in Germany. Investigators believe that a 15-year-old boy smuggled the detonators from Istanbul to Germany — inside the soles of a pair of shoes. By Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark more…

Foiled Bomb Plot: Terror Suspect [...]

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Russia wants to weaken the United States, and however the US reacts to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Russia stands to gain. more…

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Russian military equipment manufacturers have concluded that China has illegally copied the Fregat M2EM naval radar, and many other high tech items. Despite growing pressure from manufacturers, the Russian government is still trying to decide what to do about it.
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