Russia readies nuclear fuel bound for Iran
Ynetnews, Israel - 8 hours ago
Russia’s state-run nuclear fuel producer said inspectors from the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog would later this month start sealing nuclear fuel bound …
Russia readies nuclear fuel bound for Iran Reuters India
Russia readies nuclear fuel bound for Iran: RIA Reuters
Unilateral action against Tehran can damage negotiations - [...]

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Radical Islam, or Islamo-fascism as conservatives are prone to call it, conveys the impression of a political movement. It is no such animal. Al-Qaida’s suicide bombers and assorted gunslingers are not individual al-Qaida terrorists, inspired by Osama bin Laden, who have hijacked a religion. Like it or not, the West is fighting a religion “that [...]

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QUEBEC — The Arctic Ocean could be free of ice in the summer as soon as 2010 or 2015 - something that hasn’t happened for more than a million years, according to a leading polar researcher.
Louis Fortier, scientific director of ArcticNet, a Canadian research network, said the sea ice is melting faster than predicted by [...]

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What defines a global “superpower”? In the past, it was the size of national armies or possession of nuclear weapons.
But now there is a more important (and peaceful) benchmark: the size and prestige of university systems.
And, while the US is still the global higher education “superpower”, China will soon be knocking it off top spot [...]

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Since the C.F.E. Treaty is considered to be a key element of the post-Cold war military balance in Europe, Russia’s decision has been greeted with worries and irritation by the United States and by N.A.T.O. Moreover, commentators in Europe, the United States, and Russia have repeatedly evoked the specter of a “new Cold War” between [...]

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During the past few months, the Russian Federation has implemented a new doctrine of increased military activity, as well as the development of new thermobaric bombs. There are a number of political implications for Russia’s close neighbors and for the international community.
The renewed bomber runs, which have been a regular occurrence since June 2007, have [...]

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