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Romania to host U.S. missilesBucharest, Romania (UPI) Feb 4, 2009 In an unexpected announcement, the president of Romania said Thursday his country would host missile interceptors as part of a new U.S. defense shield. President Traian Basescu said the Supreme Defense Council, Romania's top military and security body, had agreed to such a plan after a request by Washington. "Terrestrial interceptors will be placed on Romania's territory as part of the anti-missile system," Basescu was quoted as saying by Radio Free Europe. "According to the calendar agr ... read more |
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Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jan 29, 2009 Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is brazenly defying U.S. President Barack Obama's demand that all West Bank settlement activity cease, but Washington appears to be prepared to keep on beefing up the technological edge of the Jewish state's military. "Israeli officials have been singing the praises of President Obama for his willingness to address their defense concerns and for actions ... more  
Seoul (AFP) Jan 29, 2010North Korea fired artillery into the sea near its disputed border with South Korea for a third straight day on Friday, Seoul's military said. In a four-hour morning period the communist state fired 20 shells which landed in North Korean waters off South Korea's Yeonpyeong island, a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. Seoul's defence ministry said it is considering shippin ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2010The recent discovery of lakes on Saturn's moon Titan make it the only other object in the solar system known to have liquid on its surface. However, dipping 179 degrees C (290 degrees F) below freezing, these lakes are definitely not filled with water. "The water is frozen so solid on Titan that you can liken it to silicate rocks on Earth," says Vincent Chevrier of the University of Arkans ... more |
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Groovy Hills Rising From Titan SurfacePasadena CA (JPL) Jan 26, 2010 Hills with a wrinkly radial pattern stand out in a new radar image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 28, 2009. The grooved mounds in the picture, which are located in a northern hemisphere region known as Belet, are about 80 kilometers (50 miles) wide and about 60 meters (200 feet) high. The shapes of these landscape features have not been seen on Titan before, though they bear similarity to spidery features known as coronae on Venus. A corona is a circular to elliptical feature ... read more |
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