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Bush team determined to work on Iran nuclear issue
Washington (AFP) Nov 12, 2008A US envoy will meet his international partners in Paris this week to discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions, as the departing Bush administration aims to "work the issue," officials said Wednesday. State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood said William Burns, the number three at the State Department, will be in Paris on Thursday for talks on Iran with his counterparts from Russia, China ... more Kremlin rejects US missile defence proposals: reports 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 12, 2008Russia cannot accept US proposals on missile defence and will take up negotiations with the next administration of Barack Obama, a Kremlin official quoted by Russian news agencies said Wednesday. "We won't agree to these proposals and will negotiate with the new administration," the official said, describing a US offer on plans to place missile defence facilities in Poland and the Czech ... more US, Russia to hold nuclear talks in Geneva 
Geneva (AFP) Nov 12, 2008The United States and Russia will hold a week of talks starting Thursday in Geneva to try to agree on a new nuclear weapons treaty, a US spokesperson said. The Cold War-era Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) expires in December 2009 and the two sides are seeking to thrash out terms of a new accord. State Department official Jerry Taylor will head the US delegation and the talks will ... more Betting On Chavez To Buy Lots Of Guns Part One 
Washington (UPI) Nov 12, 2008 Venezuela has bought $4.4 billion worth of weapons from Russia over the past four years. And despite the collapsing global price of oil, Venezuela's weapons planning top general has announced it is going to buy lots more. "We will continue buying weaponry in Russia, China and Belarus in future years to ensure the defense of our territory and oil reserves from countries like the United ... more Russia buries nuclear submarine victims 
Komsomolsk-On-Amur, Russia (AFP) Nov 12, 2008Twelve men gassed to death on a Russian nuclear submarine were laid to rest on Wednesday in a remote industrial city where tearful relatives paid a last homage to their loved ones. Their open coffins were laid out in accordance with Orthodox religious tradition in the shipyards at Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East, seven time zones east of Moscow, before being buried together at the ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Nov 11, 2008 On Oct. 28 to 31, Moscow hosted the Interpolitech-2008 international arms exhibition featuring the most advanced Russian and foreign-made military and specialized equipment for police and secret services. Equipment purchases for national security agencies and secret services were also announced. UAZ Patriot scout vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles for the Russian Federal ... more Survivors recall panic on deadly Russian submarine
Vladivostok, Russia (AFP) Nov 11, 2008Survivors recalled the terrifying seconds after toxic gas was accidentally pumped into their nuclear submarine in an accident in which 20 people were killed, Russian media reported Tuesday. The submarine was overcrowded, locked cabin doors had to be smashed down and some of the sleeping crew were too dazed to put on gas masks, they said, after the biggest Russian naval disaster since the ... more Russia's defence sector hit by financial crisis: govt official 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 11, 2008Russia's defence industry has been badly hit by the global financial crisis, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, a former defence minister, said Tuesday. "Many businesses in the defence industry are experiencing a serious shortage of working capital needed to ensure production and to deliver products to clients," Interfax news agency quoted Ivanov as saying at a meeting with defence ... more Russia will abandon missile plans if US cancels shield 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 11, 2008Russia will abandon plans to deploy missiles on the EU's doorstep in Kaliningrad if the US scraps its plans to base part of a missile defence shield in Europe, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday. "We have said through the voice of our president that if the third zone of positioning of the US anti-missile shield is created, one of the measures to neutralise the threats to Russia's ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Nov 11, 2008The six powers trying to scale back the nuclear ambitions of Iran, which is accused of trying to build an atomic bomb, will meet in Paris on Thursday, French officials said. Political directors from the foreign ministries of Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States will gather to discuss progress in their dealings with Tehran, said a foreign ministry spokesman. ... more Progress Cargo Module To Undock From ISS Friday 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 11, 2008The Progress M-65 cargo spacecraft will undock from the international space station on Friday evening, mission control said on Monday. Mission control said the spacecraft will be used as a "space laboratory" until December 6 or 7 before reentering the Earth's atmosphere and being "buried" in the Pacific Ocean. The Progress M-65, launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan ... more Step Closer To Crew Selection For Simulated Mars Mission 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 11, 2008The crew selection for a simulated Mars mission moved a step closer to completion recently with ESA's last eight candidates being put through extensive medical screening in Moscow. Two of the European candidates will be chosen to join four Russian crew members on a 105-day study due to start in March next year. For 105 days, as part of a cooperative project between ESA's Directorate of ... more Kalashnikov turns 89, a 'happy man' for creating AK-47 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 10, 2008Legendary former Russian general Mikhail Kalashnikov, who celebrated his 89th birthday on Monday, said he was a "truly happy man" for having created the iconic assault rifle bearing his name. "I think I am a truly happy man. I created a weapon for the defence of my country and it continues to serve this cause and develop," Kalashnikov was quoted as saying by the Ria Novosti news agency. ... more
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