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 Tehran (AFP) Sept 27, 2009 
Iran test-fired three short-range missiles on Sunday as the Islamic republic began war games two days after the UN nuclear watchdog disclosed it was building a second uranium enrichment plant. Hossein Salami, air force commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, said that on Monday there would also be a test-firing of the long-range Shahab 3 missile which Iran says has a range of ... read more 
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 28, 2009President Barack Obama's decision to restructure a previous missile defense plan designed to protect Europe from a possible ballistic missile attack from Iran provides a more effective, flexible system that will take less time to implement, senior Pentagon officials said on Capitol Hill. "We are confident that our new approach represents a dramatic improvement over the program of old," ... more
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Apple blocking Dalai Lama, Kadeer, iPhone apps: report
US telecom company fined for bribing Chinese officials Apple blocking Dalai Lama iPhone applications: report Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security firms AT&T wants out of landline business Apple wins iPod hearing loss lawsuit Nuance buys British voice-to-text company SpinVox Facebook, Twitter to face more sophisticated attacks: McAfee Google plans Android event in January Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case 
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Paris (AFP) Sept 27, 2009People who were killed, injured or bereaved in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake had the cruel misfortune to be victims of an event that probably occurs just once in four millennia, seismologists said on Sunday. In a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, Shen Zhengkang of the China Earthquake Administration and colleagues said the May 12, 2008 quake comprised a strong seismic wave ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 27, 2009The People's Liberation Army marched into Beijing in 1949 as a ragtag peasant force, but this week it will show what a difference six decades and billions of dollars can make. A military parade on October 1 marking 60 years since the founding of communist China will showcase a modern, professional army wielding advanced new weapons that is increasingly capable of projecting its power ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 25, 2009Unusual signals detected by the Mars Express MARSIS instrument have been used to determine the magnetic field strength of Mars. In a forthcoming issue of Icarus, Ferzan Akalin and colleagues demonstrate how the MARSIS instrument can be used as a magnetometer - an unexpected application with important consequences for studies of local plasma effects and the Mars Express spacecraft environment. ... more |
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Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Sep 22, 2009 U.S. Navy warships have begun arriving in Israel for joint missile defense exercises next month, and the Jerusalem Post reports that officials believe some systems may remain in the Jewish state to strengthen its defense shield against feared Iranian missile attacks. Meantime, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, a former general who is the country's most decorated soldier, was ... more 
Washington (UPI) Sep 22, 2009 For some armchair strategists, President Obama's decision to scrap the Bush 43 plan to deploy ballistic missile defense hardware in Poland and the Czech Republic was rank appeasement that would merely sharpen the Russian bear's appetite for more unilateral concessions that could only weaken America's defense posture. That was sound Cold War thinking. And for some, the Cold War's villains ... more 
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Sep 21, 2009 The Israeli and U.S. militaries are expected to launch joint exercises in October to counter the nightmare scenario of coordinated missile and rocket attacks against the Jewish state from Iran, Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. The maneuvers are part of the biannual Juniper Cobra exercises on missile defense conducted by the two allies since 2000. These are designed to integrate the ... more |
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