TEHRAN (AFP) — A high-ranking Iranian cleric on Friday said the country should grow into a military super power to defend all Muslims, following an army parade at a time of mounting tension with the West.
“In a not so distant future, we should reach a point to have the most powerful military equipment in the [...]

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TEL AVIV — Israel has found that Hizbullah was financing operational cells of the ruling Fatah movement in the West Bank.
Officials said the Iran-sponsored organization has been financing and directing around a dozen cells of Fatah’s Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. They said most of the cells were located in the northern West Bank, particularly in [...]

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Internet source imagery from January 4 has offered the first glimpses of what may be China’s emerging 5th generation air-to-air missiles (AAM). One missile, called the PL-ASR or PL-10, shows a very close resemblance to the South African Denel A-Darter AAM. A second image, discovered on a China’s Northwestern University web site in [...]

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President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been likened to an African plutocrat after a controversial political scientist claimed that he had acquired control of £20 billion in energy assets - enough to make him Europe’s richest man.
Black belt president stars in judo DVD
Stanislav Belkovsky, a colourful figure on the political scene, claimed that Mr Putin [...]

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According to the CIA, China has transferred one third of its nuclear arsenal to Nagchuka, 250 kms away from Lhasa, a region full of huge caves, which the Chinese have linked together by an intricate underground network and installed nearly 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles, many of them pointed at Indian cities.
The reason for this is [...]

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For a decade, metallurgists studying the hulk of the Titanic have argued that the storied ocean liner went down quickly after hitting an iceberg because the ship’s builder used substandard rivets that popped their heads and let tons of icy seawater rush in. More than 1,500 people died.
Now a team of scientists has moved into [...]

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