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Emerging economies to drive world auto sales to record highs
Ottawa (AFP) July 30, 2008Auto sales in places like Brazil, India and China are expected to drive world demand to new records despite a sales slump in Europe and the United States, a Canadian bank said Wednesday. Global car sales advanced a mere 1.5 percent in the first half of 2008, undercut by slowing Western economies and record oil prices, Scotiabank said in its Global Auto Report. But Brazil, Russia, India a ... more GOCE Begins Its Journey To Launch Site 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 30, 2008GOCE, the first of a series of Earth Explorer satellites to be launched into orbit, has taken off aboard an Antonov-124 cargo aircraft for its flight to the Arkhangelsk Airport in Russia, en route to Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome, about 800 km north of Moscow. Preparations for the transport of the spacecraft began on 23 July when it was packed in its own nitrogen-pressurised container ... more Outside View: BMD deal lessons -- Part 2 
Moscow (UPI) Jul 29, 2008 The hopes of the Russian people for close association and even partnership with the West during the eras of the last Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, have long since given way to embarrassment and then to disillusion. I hope the Russian people have now come to their senses. I have said this before, but I have to say it again: The ... more Defense Focus: Betting on Blackjack 
Washington (UPI) Jul 29, 2008 Russia is betting on Blackjack and upping the odds: It may be a bluff, or Kremlin policymakers may believe they already are holding an inside straight. Russian policymakers Thursday boosted their threat to deploy supersonic Tupolev Tu-160 "White Swan" -- NATO designation Blackjack -- nuclear bombers in Cuba to say they might put them in Venezuela and Algeria, too. Like the origin ... more UN AIDS chief concerned about Russia, eastern Europe 
United Nations (AFP) July 29, 2008The UN AIDS chief said Tuesday that the global fight against the disease has made progress but voiced concern over rising cases in parts of the world, including Russia and Eastern Europe. "The overall finding of the report is that we've made enormous progress, that there are real results," Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, told a press conference as he released the agency's 2008 ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 29, 2008Venezuela may purchase man-portable air defense systems, Il-76 transport planes and T-90 tanks from Russian in the near future, a Russian political analyst said Thursday. According to unofficial reports, Russia and Venezuela signed a new framework agreement Wednesday on delivery of Russian air defense systems, tanks and military transport planes to the Latin American country. ... more Disaster warning after floods kill 26 in Ukraine and Romania 
Kiev (AFP) July 28, 2008Storms and floods in western Ukraine and neighbouring Romania have killed 26 people, forced the evacuation of tens of thousands and damaged scores of bridges, officials said Monday. Romanian President Traian Basescu warned the region faced an "ecological disaster" if lakes containing potentially lethal mining waste were allowed to overspill in the north of his country. Fifteen people ... more Russian scientists head for bottom of the abyss 
Tourka, Russia (AFP) July 28, 2008Russian scientists will on Tuesday attempt to reach the bottom of the world's deepest freshwater abyss in a bid to find unknown life forms as well as claim a new record. "We want to study, observe Lake Baikal" in order to "preserve it," said expedition leader Artur Chilingarov, a pro-Kremlin member of parliament who led a team of scientists that planted a Russian flag at the bottom of the ... more Success Of The 1734th launch Of Soyuz 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jul 28, 2008The 1734th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed Saturday, July 26, 2008 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia at 10:31 pm Moscow time (08:21 pm Paris time). Arianespace and its Russian partners report that the governmental spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit. This was the fifth Soyuz family mission in 2008. This mission was marked by the seamless use of ... more |
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Kiev (AFP) July 27, 2008At least 16 people have died in severe storms and flooding in western Ukraine and northern Romania that forced almost 20,000 people to abandon their homes, authorities said Sunday. The government in Kiev said 13 people, including five children, had been killed and two were missing, while authorities in Bucharest issued a toll of three dead and two missing. In Ukraine around 6,700 people ... more Russia And China May Co-Design New Passenger Plane 
Farnborough, UK (RIA Novosti) Jul 28, 2008Russia may launch a joint venture with China to continue the development of a new passenger airliner, MS-21, the head of a Russian state-run aviation corporation said on Monday. "We will come to a decision with Chinese manufacturers next year on the possibility of setting up a joint venture to design a new mid-range passenger aircraft, MS-21," Alexei Fyodorov, the CEO of the United Aircraft ... more GOCE Prepares For Shipment To Russia 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 25, 2008Launching in just two months' time, GOCE - now fully reconfigured for launch in September, is currently being prepared for shipment on 29 July 2008 from ESA's test facilities in the Netherlands to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. Originally, the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) mission had been scheduled for launch in May 2008, but as a result of ... more Russia denies planning to base bombers in Cuba: reports 
Moscow (AFP) July 24, 2008Russia's defence ministry on Thursday denied a report it was considering basing bomber aircraft in Cuba in retaliation for US missile defence plans in Eastern Europe, a news agency reported. "We regard these sorts of reports from anonymous sources as disinformation," RIA Novosti quoted defence ministry spokesman Ilshat Baichurin as saying. Baichurin was referring to an article published ... more
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