 |
 |
| October 31, 2013 |
 U.S. Department of Defense Awards Iridium Contract for Iridium Airtime Services McLean VA (SPX) Oct 31, 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 |  |
 Raytheon's Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 demonstrates networked capability with E-2D aircraft Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 31, 2013 - Raytheon and the U.S. Navy demonstrated the capability of the newest version of the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) C-1 by establishing communications among an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft, an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft and the JSOW C-1. The test was part of the Navy's Trident Warrior 2013 demonstration in July. During the demonstration, fighters simulated the launch of a JSOW C-1 whil ... more |  |
 US drone strike kills three in NW Pakistan: officials Miranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 30, 2013 - A US drone strike targeting a militant compound Thursday killed three insurgents in a northwest Pakistan tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said. The attack took place near Miranshah, the main town in the troubled North Waziristan tribal district. "A US drone fired two missiles on a militant compound, hitting a part of the house and also a vehicle parked there, killing three ... more |  |
 Outside View: The wrong war again Washington (UPI) Oct 30, 2013 - Last week, Washington roiled in revelations about the war on terror with reports of drone strikes in Pakistan secretly approved by that government; National Security Agency tapping of the German chancellor's and French president's phone calls along with dozens of other heads of state; and what to do once the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force ends with the 2014 withdrawal from Afghanista ... more |  |
 Russia test-fires range of nuclear-capable missiles Moscow Oct 30, 2013 - Russia on Wednesday test-fired a series of short- and long-range nuclear-capable missiles as part of an unannounced check of the readiness of its massive Soviet-era force. The defence ministry said several ballistic missiles were successfully launched from the Bryansk and Svyatoy Georgy Pobedonosets submarines stationed in the Barents and Okhotsk Seas. The ground-based strategic forces a ... more |  |
| |
 Syrians alone will decide on Geneva II talks: Assad Damascus (AFP) Oct 30, 2013 - President Bashar al-Assad insisted in a meeting Wednesday with peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi that the Syrian people alone will decide the fate of a peace initiative dubbed Geneva II. Assad also reiterated his long-standing position that in order for Syria to have peace, foreign nations must halt their support of rebels and opposition groups seeking to topple his regime, state television report ... more |  |
 China foreign minister in 'candid' talks with Japanese delegates Beijing (AFP) Oct 30, 2013 - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held "candid" talks last week with a visiting delegation from Tokyo, the government said Wednesday after a report that the encounter involved a former Japanese premier. The "unofficial" meeting took place Saturday, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a regular briefing. It comes amid mounting diplomatic tensions between the two over disputed ... more |  |
Iran says nuclear site 'saboteurs' were thieves Tehran (AFP) Oct 30, 2013 - Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said on Wednesday that four people accused of sabotaging one of the country's sensitive nuclear sites were only thieves, Mehr news agency reported. "These four people were not saboteurs. They cut the fences and entered the area to collect scrap iron and steel and sell it on the market," Mehr quoted Alavi as saying. "In fact, they were thieves n ... more |  |
 US senators accuse Iraq's Maliki of 'sectarian' agenda Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2013 - Several US senators have accused Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of promoting "a sectarian and authoritarian agenda" just as the political leader pays a visit to Washington this week. In a letter sent Tuesday to President Barack Obama, six senators expressed alarm at the "deteriorating situation in Iraq" and urged Obama to expand counterterrorism assistance while pressing the Shiite prim ... more |  |
US must put Mideast peace after Iran: Israeli minister Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 30, 2013 - Israel's deputy defence minister on Wednesday urged the United States to sideline Middle East peace talks in favour of dealing with the Iran nuclear issue as a priority. Danny Danon, a hardline member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, said that a peace agreement with the Palestinians was "wishful thinking" in the time frame set aside by the US administration. "If I coul ... more |  |
| |
Israel 'destroying peace process' with new housing Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 30, 2013 - The Palestinians accused Israel Wednesday of trying to wreck peace talks with plans to build 1,500 new settler homes in east Jerusalem, hours after the Jewish state freed 26 Palestinian prisoners. A spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeina, said the move "destroys the peace process and is a message to the international community that Israel is a country that does n ... more |  |
US renews vow to help Iraq combat terror attacks Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2013 - The United States vowed Wednesday to help Iraq combat terror groups as mounting attacks claimed more lives ahead of talks between Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and President Barack Obama. Maliki's visit to Washington comes as his country is wracked by the worst unrest since 2008, and just a few weeks before the two-year anniversary of the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. On ... more |  |
Suicide bombers hit Iraq security as attacks kill 35 Baghdad (AFP) Oct 30, 2013 - Three suicide bombings killed 14 Iraqi security force members overnight, officials said Wednesday, the deadliest in a series of attacks that left 35 people dead in two days. The attacks come as Iraq witnesses its worst violence since 2008, a surge in unrest that has killed more than 5,400 people this year that has persisted despite authorities having carried out a swathe of operations and im ... more |  |
 US taps links to Google, Yahoo data centers: report Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2013 - The US National Security Agency has tapped into key communications links from Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. The Post, citing documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with officials, said the program can collect data at will from hundreds of millions of user accounts, including from Americans. The ... more |  |
NATO, Russia hail joint test to detect bombers in crowds Brussels (AFP) Oct 30, 2013 - Once implacable Cold War foes, NATO and Russia Wednesday claimed a major breakthrough in the fight against a shared enemy - terrorist bombers targeting big commuter hubs or sports venues. NATO said in a video news release featuring Russian partners that after some four years and 4.8 million euros ($6.6 million) of investment, they could now foil the bombers by mass screening of crowds. ... more |  |
| ADVERTISEMENT + A Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison Report  Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison The Temperflow? uses a patent pending technology that allows body heat to ventilate out the mattress, while cooler air can flow back into the mattress. See www.Temperflow.com for more information about how their technology works. Or read our comparison report on two different memory foam mattress products.+ Buy a Temperflow? bed today and sleep better tonight! | |
Jihadists see Sinai as 'next frontier' in war against U.S., Israel Cairo (UPI) Oct 30, 2013 - The jihadist insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula appears to be escalating as senior figures linked to al-Qaida are reported to be taking command of militant operations. Israeli security chiefs, who for some time have viewed Sinai, a vast region of desert and mountains on Israel's southwestern border, as the backyard for jihadists in the Gaza Strip, now consider the region the center of wh ... more |  |
Tiananmen 'attack' embarrasses China's security regime Beijing (AFP) Oct 30, 2013 - A "terrorist attack" in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the symbolic heart of the Chinese state, represents an embarrassing failure for the nation's vast police and intelligence apparatus and shows it cannot plug all security vulnerabilities, analysts say. Communist China spends vast sums on ensuring order among a population of 1.35 billion people, more even than on its military, the world's lar ... more |  |
China, Malaysia to hold joint military drills Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Oct 30, 2013 - China and Malaysia will hold their first-ever joint military exercises next year, the Southeast Asian nation's defence minister said Wednesday, despite their rival claims to the tense South China Sea. The announcement by Hishammuddin Hussein, who is in Beijing to meet Chinese military leaders, follows a visit to Kuala Lumpur earlier this month by China's President Xi Jinping, in which the tw ... more |  |
Iraqi forces behind attack on Iranian exiles: rights group Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2013 - Human rights activists accused Iraqi forces Wednesday of carrying out a bloody attack on a camp of Iranian exiles in which 52 people were shot dead. A German rights groups working with a Washington-based lawyer claimed their 70-page report "confirms the direct involvement of the government of Iraq in the attack" on September 1. Calling for a UN investigation into the attack, the Aachen-b ... more |  |
Iran never stopped 20 percent uranium enrichment: Salehi Tehran (AFP) Oct 30, 2013 - Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi said Tehran has never stopped 20 percent uranium enrichment, denying earlier claims of a temporarily halt, parliament's website reported Wednesday. "Twenty percent uranium and nuclear plates are being produced inside the country and there has never been a halt in the production trend," Salehi was quoted as saying. "Nuclear plates for Tehran reactor a ... more |  |
| ||||
| ||||||||
No comments :
Post a Comment