Israel wants to put more international pressure on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme, suggesting an US-imposed naval blockade and tougher sanctions, local media reported on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert raised the idea of a naval blockade in talks with the Democratic speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, during her visit to [...]

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Fighting transnational terrorism often involves making unsavory choices between protecting civil rights and providing security. The following regimes have opted for the latter and are definitely not the kind of places you want to get caught if you’re plotting some terrorist mayhem.
France
Key tactics: Though many Americans view them as softies when it comes to the [...]

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The earthquake that devastated southwest China has left many dams badly damaged, posing an unknown threat of collapse and flooding made worse by poor management and information, the country’s water minister said.
In Sichuan and Chongqing, at least 17 reservoirs have been damaged, with some dams cracked or leaking water since the quake struck on Monday, [...]

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Jacob Verhoef, the federal geoscientist leading Canada’s bid to assert control of offshore territory in the High Arctic, told Canwest News Service on Friday that preliminary results of a seabed mapping project off Ellesmere Island suggest the submerged Alpha Ridge is attached to the Canadian landmass and appears likely to qualify under the UN Convention [...]

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The United States and Colombia have long been wary of Venezuela’s peacetime military buildup, suspecting the weapons could end up in the hands of drug-trafficking Colombian rebels.
Now they have documented reasons for their worries — certified by Interpol.
Colombian rebel computer files described Thursday as authentic by the international police agency suggest a dramatic arms buildup [...]

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FP: What potential disasters keep you up at night?
ALL: We’re all concerned about major, disastrous earthquakes. In particular, I’m worried about disastrous earthquakes in Asia. Large cities are built near faults, and there are cities that haven’t seen earthquakes in 500 years but are due. It is entirely conceivable that we could see an earthquake [...]

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Are you good with maps? Can you mentally unfold a box? If so, then you too might be candidate for the new computer game called Foldit. This is a protein folding game that could lead to medical breakthoughs. It’s free so check it out.
Tetris-Like Game Lets Players Find Scientific Solutions
Discovery Channel - May 13, 2008
May [...]

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History dictates that protecting and maintaining a nation’s industrial base is critical to its national security and to winning wars. This is why taking out an enemy’s manufacturing infrastructure, as America did to Germany and Japan during World war II, is the first step in rendering it defenseless.
Yet today in America, despite the menace of [...]

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Experts attempting to understand the strategic aims behind China’s aggressive military expansion have generally focused on Taiwan. But a new naval base points at Beijing’s significant and growing interest in projecting power into waters far from the Taiwan Strait. China, in fact, is equipping itself to assert its longstanding and expansive territorial claims in the [...]

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Raoul Wallenberg was a minor official of a neutral country, with an unimposing appearance and gentle manner. Recruited and financed by the U.S., he was sent into Hungary to save Jews. He bullied, bluffed and bribed powerful Nazis to prevent the deportation of 20,000 Hungarian Jews to concentration camps, and averted the massacre of 70,000 [...]

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An airbase inside a mountain is the latest sign that North Korea, whose links to Syria’s nuclear programme came to light last week, is cranking up its military machine
North Korean military engineers are completing an underground runway beneath a mountain that can protect fighter aircraft from attack until they take off at high speed through [...]

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In his January/February cover story, “A World Without Islam,” Graham Fuller takes issue with those who blame religion for the rift between East and West. He imagines what the world have looked like without Islam—and argues that it would look much the same. Now, he answers your questions about the role of religion, the future [...]

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Unfortunately for Russia, there are serious problems sustaining its strategic deterrent as is. The vast majority of missiles and their supporting infrastructure are well past their intended service lives and production is nowhere near sufficient to sustain those numbers. And continually developing and improving upon countermeasures and counter-countermeasures to contend with rapidly advancing U.S. BMD [...]

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PRESS TV
Analysis: Hamas won the battle - and it may win the war, tooJerusalem Post, Israel - 19 hours agoThird, Hamas’s actions gave Mahmoud Abbas the pretext - and allegedly the legitimacy - to dissociate Fatah from Hamas and to move forward with Israel on the …Three-State Solution!!? أمينANALYSIS-Month on, no end in sight to Gaza, [...]

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Serdyukov: Russia to Boost Base in KyrgyzstanMoscow News, Russia - 19 hours agoMOSCOW (AFP) - Russia will continue to boost its military base in Kyrgyzstan, Russia’s defense minister said late Wednesday, stressing that the base in this …

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Editor Arrested for Iran ThreatsMoscow News, Russia - 19 hours ago… Iran would attack Azerbaijan if the ex-Soviet nation supported any US, military operations against Tehran, his lawyer and colleagues said Wednesday. …

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Political Impressions from New YorkMoscow News, Russia - 19 hours agoIn Russia, however, discussions about the future president are reminiscent of fortune-telling by reading coffee grounds. Meanwhile, in the US, …More Than a Footnote to History Moscow News all 4 news articles

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Eurasia Daily Monitor
Can the CFE Treaty Be Salvaged?Moscow News, Russia - 19 hours agoRussia has already substantially reduced its military stocks there. Originally, 43000 tons of munitions were stored at Colbasna. …NATO and Russia Discuss US Missile Defense Plans Moscow NewsPutin Delivers His Final State of the Nation Address Moscow NewsMOSCOW RECONSIDERS ABANDONING CFE [...]

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Gulf News
Why This ‘Cold War’ Is DifferentMoscow News, Russia - 19 hours ago… which have more symbolic than military value. America holds onto the Jackson-Vanik legislation, and delays approval for Russia’s membership in the World …Cold war Redux: China responds to the Russo-American BMD dispute Asia Pacific Media NetworkThe new arms race is deadly because Russia [...]

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Russia Touts Space SuccessMoscow News, Russia - 19 hours agoIt is the second time Russia has launched a German military spacecraft from the Plesetsk space center. Russia’s Space Forces successfully conducted the …

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Korea as a model for Iraq?Christian Science Monitor, MA - 22 hours agoKorea may have another type of lesson for the Iraq war. Recent events have given hope to some US diplomats that ending North Korea’s nuclear program might …Peace progress NewsdayUPI NewsTrack TopNews - July 12, 2007 Earthtimes.orgUS ponders how to implement Korean war [...]

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