PICTURES: Indian officials get up close to new-look PAK FA fighter

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PICTURES: Indian officials get up close to new-look PAK FA fighter By Russia has conducted a flight demonstration with its prototype PAK FA fighter for a delegation of Indian defence ministry and industry officials. Held at Ramenskoye aerodrome near Moscow on 31 August, the 10min display was made in support of talks over the bilateral development by Moscow and New Delhi of a new fifth-generation fighter. Indian officials inspected Sukhoi's lone PAK FA following the demonstration, which included low-speed passes and high angle-of-attack manoeuvres. The aircraft, which will be followed by two more prototypes before the end of the year,...

Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 03:12:57 AM

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Russia considers laser technology deal with Israel

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday said that Russia and Israel are considering the possibility of equipping Israeli aircraft with Russian laser technology. According to RIA Novosti, Putin met with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Sochi, Russia. The two officials discussed the current and future cooperation between both nations, including in the military sector. “We are considering the possibility of equipping Israeli aircraft with our devices – space technology and laser technology,” Putin said. Russia and Israel are currently negotiating the establishment of a joint venture to produce drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), worth an estimated $300...

Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 03:12:57 AM

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Russia, Israel Sign Military Cooperation Agreement

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Russia and Israel today signed an agreement on military cooperation. Details of the deal inked by the countries' defense ministers in Moscow were not immediately disclosed. But Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said Moscow was "studying seriously and attentively" the experiences and practices of Israel's military as it modernizes its army. His Israeli counterpart, Ehud Barak, said Israel was "ready to continue sharing experience with the Russian military on fighting terrorism and ensuring security, including by using air drones." Barak also met with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who said, "We have purchased several unmanned aerial vehicles in Israel. We...

Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 03:12:57 AM

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Abducted Japanese reporter returns home

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SNIPPET: "TOKYO—A Japanese journalist returned home Monday after militants in Afghanistan released him from five months in captivity." SNIPPET: "Tsuneoka had been abducted before. He disappeared in Georgia in 2001 and was held for several months by unidentified individuals, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. He was freed during a Georgian military operation."

Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 03:12:57 AM

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UK Police Ask For Help In Case of Slain Intelligence Agent (..help identify Mediterranean couple)

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<p>London, England (CNN) -- Metropolitan police in London, England, appealed Monday for further information about last month's death of a man who worked for a British intelligence agency and whose naked body was found in a padlocked duffel bag in his bathroom.</p>

Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 03:12:57 AM

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How Kosovo Is Ripping Europe Apart

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Bosnian Serbs in the Republika Srpska are glad that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled the Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence was legal. The Bosnian Serbs have wanted to exit Bosnia and join Serbia for quite some time. The Bosnian government officially says its borders are fixed, but then, Serbia's are not. One Bosnian Serb official made the interesting argument that the ICJ's ruling supersedes the Dayton Accords which ended the Bosnian War and established Bosnia's current government. In August several other Balkan countries also indicated they are very interested in the ICJ's July 22 decision. The court declared...

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China: A Riddle And An Enigma

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The rulers of the Middle Kingdom are as unpredictable as they are inscrutable. They blow hot and cold in defiance of the seasons Winston Churchill’s description of Russia in October 1939, “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”, is surely truer of contemporary China. The rulers of the Middle Kingdom are as unpredictable as they are inscrutable. They blow hot and cold in defiance of the seasons. New Delhi is having a spot of bother with Beijing, but that should come as no surprise to those accustomed to the variable moods of Chinese leaders down the ages: Silky...

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Food riots kill seven in Mozambique

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MAPUTO, Mozambique, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A 30 percent rise in bread prices triggered riots in Maputo, Mozambique, that killed at least seven people and injured 228, government officials said. The riots Wednesday and Thursday in the country's capital prompted fears that food protests could spread across poorer African countries relying on agricultural imports, similar to the riots of 2007-08, the Financial Times reported Thursday. Wheat prices rose in reaction to Russia's extension of its grain export ban for another year, increasing the potential of more riots over food shortages, officials said. "Bread is the key item in the basket...

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