Nevada’s Groom Lake Is Homey Airport
Pilots beware! Your GPS contains the airport identifier and location of Groom Lake — where they keep the space aliens at Area 51, in Nevada — and it’s one airport you don’t want to fly into.
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) recently noted the information has been in flight-planning [...]

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Some history and background on the Gaza Strip.
On Wednesday, tens of thousands of Palestinians streamed into Egypt for a shopping frenzy after gunmen in the Gaza Strip destroyed part of the barrier along the border. In the past two weeks, following a rise in rocket attacks, Israel had ramped up its blockades, refusing to allow [...]

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France, India fire up military cooperation, nuclear energy ties
AFP - 8 hours ago
… of Mirage fighters in a contract worth up to 1.5 billion euros that Israel had also been chasing. Nuclear cooperation has been in the works for years, …
France offers nuclear technology to India Pakistan Dawn
Expand G-8 to include India: Sarkozy Times of India
India, [...]

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“If the United States deploys its missiles in Europe for protecting their country against terrorism, Russia could in the same way create its stronghold in Serbia,” he continued. He even does not rule out a possibility of the deployment of Russian nuclear missiles in their country. “There is reason to hold talks on the problem, [...]

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Four of 10 ASEAN member nations have laid claim to the Spratlys — the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and Vietnam. Also claimants are Taiwan and China; of the two, China is an ASEAN dialogue partner.
“If this is not well managed, we will be facing a very serious problem in Southeast Asian and in the South China [...]

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The new small AAMs - if that is what they are - are unusual as they are not fitted with an infrared (IR) seeker. Both items instead have radomes, suggesting they might be active radar-guided weapons like the SD-10.
Russian specialist seeker design house AGAT has developed a special, miniaturised version of its 9B-1103M seeker to [...]

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Do foreigners have a more difficult time here than in other countries? Spurred by a recent editorial, SPIEGEL ONLINE readers have flooded our inboxes with their experiences and comments. more…

‘As Welcome as Satan in Heaven’: German Xenophobia as Our Readers See It
Opinion: Germany’s Homegrown Intolerance
Letter From Berlin: Xenophobia at the Heart of German Politics

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“We posses indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea islands and the adjoining waters,” Jiang said at a regularly scheduled news conference.
“We have exchanged views with Vietnam on many occasions and agreed to solve these disputes through negotiations and safeguard peace and stability in the South China Sea as well as in China-Vietnam relations,” she [...]

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