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 Washington (AFP) Sept 30, 2009 
The United States has refused to rule out military action against Iran if diplomacy fails, but analysts and officials say bombing nuclear sites would carry high risks while setting back Tehran's program by only a few years.
Military options often floated in Washington range from naval blockades, pre-emptive air strikes against nuclear-related targets or even full-scale ground assaults design ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 29, 2009China will celebrate 60 years of communist rule Thursday with lavish festivities showcasing the Asian giant's dramatic transformation from global pariah to diplomatic, economic and military power. The Communist Party, firmly in control since the founding of the People's Republic on October 1, 1949, will seize the moment to glorify its achievements and promote national unity at a time when so ... 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 29, 2009Press rights group Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday that a "paranoid" China had blocked tens of thousands of websites ahead of the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic. The Paris-based group said that Chinese authorities had targeted Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and other ways that residents, including foreign reporters, used to circumvent controls on the Internet. The grou ... more 
Tehran (AFP) Sept 28, 2009Iran on Monday test-fired its two long-range missiles which it says could hit targets in arch-foe Israel, as the Revolutionary Guards staged war games for the second straight day. The exercises coincide with heightened tension with the West after the UN nuclear watchdog revealed on Friday that Tehran was building a second uranium enrichment plant. Western countries suspect Iran of seeking ... more  
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 |
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Givat Shmuel, Israel (SPX) Sep 25, 2009DSIT Solutions has announced the signing of an agreement with a leading Homeland Security (HLS) integrator securing future orders for its underwater site security systems. Under the agreement the integrator commits to providing DSIT, by the end of Q1 2010, with orders for the AquaShield Diver Detection Sonar (DDS) system totaling close to US$5,000,000. The agreement also includes an option ... more  
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Sep 25, 2009Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has been awarded two contracts in the Republic of South Korea (ROK) to supply radar systems for fighter jets and advanced radar systems for air defense. The multi-year contracts are valued at $280 million. In one contract, IAI's group and wholly-owned subsidiary, ELTA Systems Ltd., will develop and supply the EL/M 2032 Multimode Fire Control Radar system ... more  
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2009This image, from the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X, shows the urban region of Munich and the surrounding area. It was acquired on 2 May 2009 at a resolution of 10 metres. The colours in this radar image provide information about how strongly the surface of the Earth reflected back the transmitted radar signals in different polarisations. The urban area is depicted in shades of red and ... more |
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