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| October 30, 2013 |
 U.S. Department of Defense Awards Iridium Contract for Iridium Airtime Services McLean VA (SPX) Oct 30, 2013 - Iridium Communications has been awarded a $400 million, multi-year, fixed-price contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to provide satellite airtime services to meet the communications needs of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and their federal partners. This five-year contract renews the provision for delivering Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) airtime effective ... more |  |
 Iraq PM heads to US to push for security support Baghdad (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki left for Washington on Tuesday, where he will push for increased US support for Baghdad's efforts to curb a months-long surge in violence. The unrest in Iraq has reached a level unseen since 2008 and killed more than 5,350 people this year, as authorities have so far failed to curb daily attacks despite carrying out a swathe of operations and implementing ... more |  |
 Iran, IAEA in 'very productive' nuclear talks Vienna (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 - The UN atomic watchdog and Iran hailed Tuesday "productive" and "constructive" talks, in the latest possible sign of Tehran's willingness to ease international concerns about its nuclear work. Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency said he presented a new proposal - aimed at clearing up allegations of past nuclear weapons research - that he hopes will "open a new chapter of ... more |  |
 Australia says ban on China's Huawei stays Sydney (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 - Australia's new government on Tuesday said Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will remain shut out of bidding to build Australia's national broadband network on advice from security agencies. The previous Labor government last year banned Huawei from helping build infrastructure for the National Broadband Network (NBN) on "strong advice" from intelligence operatives. Huawei criticised the decisio ... more |  |
 Russia Retires Faulty Glonass-M Satellite Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 28, 2013 - A satellite in the fleet of Russia's answer to GPS has been decommissioned because of a terminal malfunction, space officials said Tuesday. The Federal Space Agency said it stopped receiving signals from Glonass 728 on July 1 and has kept the satellite in maintenance mode ever since. Attempts to fix the malfunction have proven unsuccessful. "The spacecraft has been withdrawn fr ... more |  |
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 Israeli companies vie for $1B artillery upgrade contracts Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Oct 29, 2013 - Israeli defense companies, including Israel Aerospace Industries and Elbit Systems, are squaring off for a $1 billion army program to replace the venerable U.S.-designed M109 self-propelled 155mm howitzer. These firms, along with Israel Military Industries, are mulling partnerships with international companies such as Lockheed Martin's Dallas-based Missiles and Fire Control Unit, and Ge ... more |  |
 Xinjiang 'suspects' named after Tiananmen crash: media Beijing (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 - Chinese police have named two suspects from the restive Xinjiang region after a car crash on Beijing's Tiananmen Square killed five people, state-run media said Tuesday, as analysts said the incident looked like a premeditated attack. The crash - in which a sport utility vehicle drove along the pavement, ploughed into crowds and caught fire at the capital's best-known and most sensitive sit ... more |  |
 Reforms eyed as China unveils Communist Party meeting Beijing (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 - China's ruling Communist Party will hold a key four-day gathering early next month, state media reported Tuesday, a much-anticipated meeting that could serve as the venue for the announcement of far-reaching economic reforms. The Communist Party's third plenum - which traditionally sets the economic tone for a Chinese government's five-year term - will take place in Beijing from November 9 ... more |  |
China jeopardising peace in island row: Japan Tokyo (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 - Beijing is jeopardising peace in a row with Tokyo over disputed islands, Japan's defence minister said Tuesday, days after China warned that any bid to shoot down its drones would constitute "an act of war". Itsunori Onodera's comments are likely to further heighten fears that the two countries could be sliding towards conflict over the outcrops in the East China Sea. They come as China show ... more |  |
 Syria's Assad sacks vice premier over foreign meetings Damascus (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday sacked his vice premier for being absent without leave and holding unauthorised meetings abroad, the official SANA news agency said. The move came after Qadri Jamil, a vice premier for economic affairs, met with the US pointman for Syria, Ambassador Robert Ford, on Saturday in Geneva to discuss proposed peace talks. SANA said Jamil was sacked a ... more |  |
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80 Afghan police killed every week in 'fighting season' Kabul (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 - Nearly 80 Afghan police have died every week during the current fighting season, officials said Tuesday, as the national security forces take on the battle against Taliban militants. The figures, which are in addition to Afghan soldiers killed, reflect a sharp rise in casualties at a time when US-led NATO forces are stepping back from the frontline and steadily withdrawing 87,000 troops by t ... more |  |
 Tunisia launches 'huge' operation to hunt jihadists Tunis (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 - Tunisia's army launched a "huge" operation to track down jihadists in the central Sidi Bouzid region Tuesday, the defence ministry said, after militants killed six policemen in the area last week. "A huge military operation was launched on Tuesday in the hills of Sidi Ali Ben Aoun," a district of the Sidi Bouzid region, ministry spokesman Taoufik Rahmouni said, quoted by the official TAP ne ... more |  |
Thai government wants to resume peace negotiations with rebels Bangkok (UPI) Oct 29, 2013 - The Thai government has indicated it wants to resume peace talks with rebels in the south of the country. Fighting, which has been going on since 2004 between government forces and rebels, has claimed at least 5,300 lives in the Muslim-majority provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, an area that borders Malaysia. Peace talks began in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur in Marc ... more |  |
Only Syrians can choose their future: minister Damascus (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 - Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem told UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi Tuesday that only the Syrian people can choose their future and leaders, official news agency SANA reported. He made the comments as Brahimi visited Damascus to muster support for launching peace talks in Geneva aimed at finding a political solution to the conflict. "Syria will attend Geneva II based on the e ... more |  |
Israel's stance in talks harshest in 20 years: PLO Ramallah, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 - Israel's negotiating position with the Palestinians in US-sponsored peace talks is the toughest it has taken since before the 1993 Oslo Accords, a senior Palestinian official said on Tuesday. "The current Israeli negotiating position is the worst in more than 20 years," said Yasser Abed Rabbo, a top official with the Palestine Liberation Organisation, adding there had been "no tangible progr ... more |  |
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Israel to free second batch of Palestinian prisoners Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 - Israel was preparing on Tuesday to release 26 long-serving Palestinian prisoners, the second batch of 104 inmates who are to be freed in line with commitments to US-brokered peace talks. The release, due to take place late at night, will see 21 prisoners going to their homes in the West Bank. The remaining five are to return to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. All 26 were convicted for kill ... more |  |
N. Korea upgrading main launch site: US think-tank Seoul (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 - North Korea has undertaken major construction work at its main missile launch site, possibly to cater to larger and more mobile weapons, a US think-tank said Tuesday. Satellite images taken earlier this month suggest construction of a second flat mobile launch pad at the Sohae missile site, the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University posted on its 38 North website. Work has also b ... more |  |
 China flexes muscles with show of submarine force Beijing (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 - Beijing has put its nuclear-powered submarine fleet on public display, with state media Tuesday touting the move as unprecedented and necessary to show other countries China's strike capabilities as territorial tensions mount. In an overt declaration of China's high-seas strength, several state-run papers ran front-page stories on the four-decade-old submarine fleet, while state broadcaster ... more |  |
 Pakistani family recounts drone terror in visit to US Washington (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 - Nabila Rehman was picking okra in her family garden last year when missiles from a drone rained down from the sky, killing her grandmother and injuring her and seven other children. The nine-year-old Pakistani girl now has a question for the US government: "What did my grandmother do wrong?" Rehman's father has traveled with her from Pakistan's North Waziristan region to Washington, alon ... more |  |
Gaza rockets spark Israel raid on eve of prisoner deal Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Oct 28, 2013 - Israeli warplanes raided the northern Gaza Strip Monday after militants fired rockets over the border, as Israel prepared to free a new batch of long-term Palestinian prisoners. It was the first air strike on Gaza in more than two months and came shortly after two rockets were fired at southern Israel. Israeli officials said the flareup along the Gaza border - which has been quiet for m ... more |  |
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