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Extensive missile site in China revealed by satellite: analyst
Washington (AFP) May 15, 2008Commercial satellite imagery has revealed an extensive nuclear missile site in central China with nearly sixty launch pads for medium-range missiles capable of striking Russia or India, a researcher said Thursday. The images from Google Earth show different types of launch pads, command and control facilities, and missile deployment equipment at a large facility in downtown Delingha, said ... more Russia's Medvedev inspects nuclear missiles 
Moscow (AFP) May 15, 2008Russian President Dmitry Medvedev inspected a nuclear missile site outside Moscow on Thursday as his powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin moved to streamline his administrative base. Medvedev promised to ensure adequate financing of Russia's missile forces as he made the visit to the nuclear base at Ivanovo, east of Moscow, and inspected a column of Topol-M rockets. The intercontinental ... more China okays rescuers from Russia, SKorea, Singapore: state media 
Beijing (AFP) May 16, 2008China has accepted offers from Russia, South Korea and Singapore to send rescue teams to earthquake-hit Sichuan province, state media reported early Friday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying that the Chinese government had accepted the offers, taking into consideration their proximity to China, which may ensure prompt aid. The announcement was ... more Analysis: Mongolia, coal and inflation 
Washington (UPI) May 14, 2008 Rising fuel and food costs are hitting Mongolia hard, with foreign investors exploiting the situation to pressure the country to open up its economy. Given the country's political isolation, sandwiched between China and Russia, its two major trading partners, Ulaanbaatar is being held over the proverbial barrel in negotiations with its giant neighbors, leaving its population of 2.9 million ... more Russian cargo ship lifts off for International Space Station 
Moscow (AFP) May 14, 2008Russian cargo ship Progress M-64 set off from Kazakhstan overnight on Wednesday for the International Space Station, the centre for control of space flights (Tsoup) told national news agencies. The spacecraft was launched "as planned" at a little after midnight local time (2023 GMT) and is due to arrive at the ISS on Saturday, said a spokesman. Progress is delivering a three-tonne cargo ... more |
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Brussels (AFP) May 14, 2008NATO launched Wednesday a new cyber-defence training centre in Tallinn to defend against attacks over the Internet, a year after Estonia fell victim to a "cyber-war" blamed on Russian hackers. At NATO headquarters in Brussels, seven member nations -- Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Spain -- signed documents formally establishing the Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence ... more Outside View: Georgia civil war -- Part 1 
Moscow (UPI) May 14, 2008 Analysts are actively debating the possible outcomes of an armed conflict between Georgia and the self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia, which seceded from Georgia in 1992. Without looking into the most pessimistic scenarios envisioning a nuclear conflict between Russia and NATO, let's try to predict the possible outcomes of a Georgian-Abkhazian conflict. In late 2007 the ... more First Korean Astronaut Yi So-Yeon Leaves Hospital After Soyuz Hard Landing 
Seoul (AFP) May 14, 2008South Korea's first astronaut has left hospital after treatment for severe back pain caused by her unexpectedly rough return to earth, officials said Wednesday. Yi So-Yeon, 29, had been admitted to an air force hospital in late April with dislocation and bruising of the vertebrae caused during her return from the International Space Station on April 19. Yi's Russian-designed Soyuz ca ... more Soyuz Carrier Rocket Set To Blast Off With New Progress Space Truck To Space Station 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 14, 2008A Soyuz-U carrier rocket is due to blast off from Baikonur space center Thursday to deliver a Progress M-64 spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), a Mission Control spokesman said on Tuesday. The Russian carrier rocket is due to be launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan at 0:23 a.m. Moscow time on May 15 (20:23 GMT May 14) and the Progress is scheduled to dock with the ISS on ... more |
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Washington (UPI) May 12, 2008 Besides Russia, the former Soviet republics that have hit the energy jackpot are all clustered around the Caspian Sea. While Azerbaijan, with the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, is already hardwired into the Western economy, Turkmenistan's potential has yet to be fully developed, and its natural gas exports have been locked in for the foreseeable future first by Russia and, to a lesser extent ... more Russian general slams NATO practice 'attacks' over Arctic: report 
Moscow (AFP) May 10, 2008NATO planes regularly undertake "dangerous" practice attacks against Russian bombers patrolling the Arctic Ocean, the head of the Russian air force was quoted as saying Saturday. "Regularly as our flights are fulfilling combat patrols, we are tracked by planes from the patrol forces of both NATO and other countries," General Alexander Zelin was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. ... more No permanent foreign inspectors in US-Czech radar talks: minister 
Prague (AFP) May 11, 2008Neither the Czech Republic nor the United States have made provisions for permanent Russian inspectors at their joint anti-missile radar project, a junior government minister said Sunday. Czech deputy defence minister Martin Bartak told Czech public television that while an agreement between Prague and Washington mentions inspections, is says nothing about a permanent presence of inspectors ... more Analysis: China faces tanker shortage 
Washington (UPI) May 9, 2008 Driving China's pipeline strategy of seeking agreement with Russia and Central Asian states for transmission of oil and natural gas is a potential shortage beyond the energy issues so prominent in the media. And China's potential shortage is tankers. According to a recent report in PortWorld, a prominent Chinese shipping executive commented that by 2015 China will need nearly 150 Very ... more
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