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Time for compromise, troubled UN climate talks toldCancun, Mexico (AFP) Nov 29, 2010 A new round of UN climate talks got underway on Monday to appeals for action and compromise after the squabbles that drove last year's global summit in Copenhagen close to disaster. "A richer tapestry of efforts is needed," UN climate chief Christiana Figueres warned, as she spelt out the tasks facing the 12-day conference in the Mexican resort city of Cancun. "A tapestry of holes will not work - and the holes can only be filled in through compromise." President Felipe Calderon of Mexico, w ... read more |
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  Heavy snow hits roads, airports in Britain Parts of Britain were on Saturday blanketed in up to 35 centimetres (13 inches) of snow, causing air and road disruption, in the earliest widespread snowfall for 17 years. ... more | .. |
Snow hits roads, airports in Britain, woman dies in France Parts of Britain were blanketed in up to 35 centimetres (13 inches) of snow Saturday, causing air and road disruption, in the earliest widespread snowfall for 17 years. ... more | .. |
  Saab Receives FMV Gripen Order For Thailand Defence and security company Saab has received an order from FMV (Swedish Defence Material Administration) for six Gripen aircraft intended for the Royal Thai Air Force. The order is worth approxima ... more | .. |
  US Reservists Clear Path For Air Force Largest Rocket Air Force Reserve helicopter, maintenance and life support personnel from the 920th Rescue Wing Airmen at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., along with their mission partners from their host wing, the 45 ... more |
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  ESA's Ice Mission Goes Live With the commissioning of ESA's CryoSat now complete, the mission has been officially transferred to the operations team. This milestone marks the beginning of the satellite's operational life deliv ... more | .. |
  Commentary: Waiting for Godot The Middle East peace process is beginning to look like the Theater of the Absurd. Absurdism posits that while meaning may well exist in the universe, human beings are incapable of finding it due to some form of mental limitation. ... more | .. |
  Medvedev wants missile defence carve-up of Europe: reports Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has proposed to NATO leaders that Europe be divided into sectors of military responsibility to better protect the continent from missile attack, reports said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin's JAGM Hits Target From 6 Kilometers Lockheed Martin scored a hit on a main battle tank at six kilometers in a company-funded, multiple-mission firing of its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM). The complex flight test, at White Sands M ... more |
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 Russia 'gives Iran top new radar' Iran recently boasted it was greatly extending its radar capabilities, a vital component in its drive to use its own resources to strengthen its air defenses against U.S. or Israeli attack. ... more | .. |
  ULA And US Air Force Launch NRO Satellite The United Launch Alliance and the US Air Force have launched a top secret satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office using a Delta 4 heavy launch vehicle. The launch was delayed until Sunday night. Using Lau ... more | .. |
  Thales Alenia Space And OHB-System Sign MTG Contract With ESA Thales Alenia Space, the Prime Contractor, and its partner OHB-System, have announced the signature of an Authorization To Proceed (ATP) with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Meteosat Third G ... more | .. |
 LockMart Submits Bid For Space Fence Lockheed Martin has submitted its proposal for the next phase of Space Fence, a program that will revamp the way the U.S. Air Force identifies and tracks objects in space. Space Fence will use ... more |
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  Danger zone reduced as Indonesian eruption weakens The deadly eruption of Indonesia's Mount Merapi has weakened allowing the government to further reduce the restriction zone around the mountain, a volcanologist said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Months Of Geologic Unrest Signaled Reawakening Of Icelandic Volcano Months of volcanic restlessness preceded the eruptions this spring of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull, providing insight into what roused it from centuries of slumber. An international team ... more | .. |
 Medvedev to present missile defence vision at NATO: Kremlin President Dmitry Medvedev will lay out his vision for joint missile defence with the West when he addresses the weekend NATO summit, a top Kremlin official said in comments released Friday. ... more | .. |
  Afghan exit in 2014 an 'aspirational goal': US The Pentagon on Thursday said a plan for US-led troops to hand over security to Afghan forces in 2014 represents an "aspirational goal" and not a rigid deadline. ... more |
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 Pakistan to arm fighter jets with Chinese missiles Pakistan has confirmed it will buy Chinese missiles and flight systems to equip its 250 JF-17 Thunder jet fighters as it seeks to deepen military cooperation with Beijing, state media said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  A former Soviet carrier's Chinese odyssey Foreign military experts believe a 300-metre-long vessel being refurbished in the northeastern Chinese port of Dalian is destined to sail as the country's first aircraft carrier. ... more | .. |
  Sonar System Inspired By Dolphins Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new kind of underwater sonar device that can detect objects through bubble clouds that would effectively blind standard sonar. Just ... more | .. |
U.S. Army upgrades force tracking system The U.S Army says it is proceeding with technical upgrades to its force tracking system making it as much ten times faster than the existing system. ... more |
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 Raytheon Awarded Contract For Aegis Production The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon $240 million for production and delivery of critical components of the Aegis weapons system for the Arleigh Burke class of destroyers. Under the contract, Raythe ... more | .. |
 Selex Galileo Unveils The Mirach 100/X An intensive research and development programme that included project, modelling, simulation and test activities has borne fruit in the form of the Mirach 100/X Aerial Target, unveiled today by defe ... more | .. |
 More Americans oppose war in Afghanistan: poll More Americans now oppose the war in Afghanistan than support it, a new poll showed Thursday, the latest sign of waning public backing for the US-led mission. ... more | .. |
 Emirates boost U.S. arms purchases The U.S. Department of Defense plans to sell the United Arab Emirates 60 Boeing AH-64D Apache strike helicopters worth $5 billion - even as Washington turns up the heat on the Persian Gulf state to curb trade with Iran. ... more |
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