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| November 19, 2013 |
 US has time to boost bid for Turkey missile system: FM Washington (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - Turkey would look again at a US bid for a multi-billion-dollar contract for the country's first long-range anti-missile system providing Washington agrees to produce it jointly, a top Turkish official said Monday. A "final decision has not been taken," Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters, after meeting in Washington with US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Secretary of ... more |  |
 British launch big drive in Emirates to see Typhoon jets Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Nov 18, 2013 - British Prime Minister David Cameron has started a major lobbying campaign to sell as many as 60 Eurofighter Typhoon jets to the United Arab Emirates, a deal worth a possible $10 billion. He's aiming to snatch the deal from the French, who are pushing Dassault Aviation's Rafale multirole jet, and hoping to exploit a wave of pro-French fervor in the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf af ... more |  |
 Orbital Set to Launch Minotaur I Rocket in Support of ORS-3 Mission for USAF Dulles VA (SPX) Nov 19, 2013 - Orbital Sciences is in final preparations for Tuesday's planned launch of a Minotaur I rocket in support of the Department of Defense Operationally Responsive Space Office's ORS-3 mission. The vehicle is scheduled to be launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia on Tuesday, November 19 at approximately 7:30 p.m. (EST). Th ... more |  |
 Manpack Radios in Arctic Connect with MUOS Satellites Orbiting Equator Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Nov 19, 2013 - Two General Dynamics C4 Systems-developed AN/PRC-155 two-channel Manpack radios successfully completed secure voice and data calls from Alaska and the Arctic Circle, using the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) waveform to connect with the MUOS satellite and ground communications network. The demonstration's success is a significant operational milestone for the PRC-155 Manpack radio. " ... more |  |
 Putin tells Rouhani of 'real chance' for Iran nuclear deal Vienna (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - World powers and Iran geared up Monday for fresh nuclear negotiations, with Russian President Vladimir Putin telling Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani he was upbeat about prospects for an accord, even though the US downplayed hopes of an imminent deal. Speaking by phone two days before the talks resume on Wednesday in Geneva, Putin "stressed that a real chance has now emerged for finding a ... more |  |
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Israel, Saudi Arabia work together on plan for possible attack against Iran Moscow (Voice of Russia) Nov 19, 2013 - Israel and Saudia Arabia are secretly working together on plans for a possible attack against Iran in case the Geneva talks fail to roll back its nuclear program, media report citing British paper The Sunday Times. The two countries' shared concern has put them at odds with the United States as the latter continues to seek an agreement with Iran to ease economic sanctions in return for pul ... more |  |
Boeing Selects Business Jet for Maritime Surveillance Program Dubai UAE (SPX) Nov 19, 2013 - Boeing has selected Bombardier's Challenger 605 business jet as the platform for its Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) program, which offers the global market a capable, low-risk maritime surveillance system based on Boeing's proven P-8A mission system technology. "The Challenger 605 is an ideal platform to host MSA's mission system, sensors and communications equipment," Tim Peters, Bo ... more |  |
 Ex-envoy says US was wrong to boost Pakistan military Washington (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - Pakistan's former ambassador to the United States called Monday for his country to focus less on defense and said decades of misguided American aid have only enabled the powerful military. Husain Haqqani, an outspoken academic turned diplomat who was forced to resign in 2011 over charges that he sought US help to curb Pakistan's army, argues in a new book, "Magnificent Delusions," that the t ... more |  |
 Walker's World: The Red Bonnets of France Paris (UPI) Nov 18, 2013 - France is on the verge of a "social explosion," the country's top regional administrators warned the government in a leaked confidential report. "A steadily mounting number of bankruptcies and forced redundancy plans are having a marked effect," said the report, issued by the prefects, top civil servants who since Napoleon's day have been the arm of the government in all the regions of ... more |  |
 Russia and Egypt on verge of missile deal: Moscow Moscow (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - The head of Russia's state industrial holding company said on Monday that Moscow was on the verge of reaching a landmark agreement to deliver air defence systems to Egypt's army. Rostec chief Sergey Chemezov's comments came in the wake of a visit to Cairo last week by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu devoted to military and diplomatic ties. Chemez ... more |  |
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 Israel experts wary on French pledges ahead of Iran talks Jerusalem (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - Strong French declarations on Iran may win praise in Israel but are no guarantee Paris will advance a deal acceptable to the Israelis when nuclear talks resume, experts warned Monday. On his first state visit to Israel, President Francois Hollande was warmly received after France took a tougher stance than its Western partners in the latest world powers' bid to reach a deal to scale back Teh ... more |  |
 Bayanat Airports And Lockheed To Deploy Windtracer Lidar In Middle East Dubai UAE (SPX) Nov 19, 2013 - Bayanat Airports Engineering and Supplies (BAES), in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, has successfully installed the region's first WindTracer lidar (light detection and ranging) system at Dubai International Airport. WindTracer collects data on turbulence arising from approaching and departing aircraft. The companies are currently installing the second and third lidar systems. With ris ... more |  |
 Iran unveils attack drone 'with 2,000 km range' Tehran (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - Iran on Monday unveiled a missile-equipped drone with a range of 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles), the official IRNA news agency reported. "The Fotros drone has an operational range of 2,000 kilometres and can fly at an altitude of 25,000 feet, with a flight time of 16 to 30 hours," Defence Minister Mohammad Dehgan was quoted as saying. Dehgan said the new drone could carry out reconnaissa ... more |  |
 Yahoo vows to encrypt website traffic San Francisco (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer on Monday said the Internet firm will begin encrypting data to protect users from online snooping. By April of next year, Yahoo will have encryption in place to protect information shared by users of its online properties as well as information exchanged between the Internet firm's data centers, Mayer said in a blog post. Google has already begun scrambling most ... more |  |
 Snubbed Taiwan breaks off ties with Gambia Taipei (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - Taiwan said Monday it had terminated diplomatic relations with Gambia, after the West African nation's move to cut ties shocked Taipei and left it with a dwindling number of foreign allies. Gambian President Yahya Jammeh caught Taiwan unawares Thursday when he said his government had broken off diplomatic ties after 18 years owing to "strategic national interest". Expressing "shock and r ... more |  |
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Obama to ask Senators to hold off on Iran sanctions Washington (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - President Barack Obama will personally urge powerful US senators Tuesday to hold off on imposing more sanctions on Iran, to allow high stakes nuclear talks to succeed. Obama will meet leading members of key Senate committees on the eve of the next round of talks between world powers and Iran in Geneva aimed at clinching an interim deal to boost diplomacy on ending a nuclear showdown. The ... more |  |
Libya lurches toward collapse after Tripoli bloodbath Tripoli, Libya (UPI) Nov 18, 2013 - Libya appears to be on the brink of falling apart after a weekend of bloodshed in the capital that underlined the government's inability to rein in powerful militias who've become a law unto themselves in the anarchy triggered by the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi two years ago. The persistent violence and the growing power of the unruly militias spawned by the 2011 civil war which ru ... more |  |
Turkey has no plans to give Kurdish rebels general amnesty Ankara (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - Turkey on Monday said it was not considering a general amnesty for Kurdish rebels as the government stepped up efforts to restart a stalled peace process with the outlawed Kurdish PKK group. The issue came to the fore on Saturday when Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted in the country's Kurdish-majority southeast that Turkish prisons would one day be emptied. Erdogan had welcome ... more |  |
N. Korean refugees arrested in Kunming: reports Seoul (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - At least 13 refugees from North Korea have been arrested in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming while they were trying to reach South Korea, media reports said Monday. Chinese police on Friday arrested the 13 who were trying to board a bus bound for an unidentified Southeast Asian nation, Yonhap news agency said. It cited South Korean activists promoting human rights for North Kore ... more |  |
Top Syria rebel killed as Russia pushes peace Damascus (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - A charismatic Islamist rebel leader from Syria has died of wounds suffered in a regime air strike as a government delegation held talks in Moscow on Monday on elusive peace talks. Syrian rebels and activists reported the death of Abdel Qader Saleh, chief of the rebel Liwa al-Tawhid Brigade, after an air raid in the Aleppo area last week. His death is a blow to Islamist rebels, particular ... more |  |
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