Medvedev Urges Obama to Rethink Missile Shield Plans

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has said he will call of his threat to deploy missiles in the Kaliningrad region, a Russian excave within the EU, if Barack Obama calls off the Bush Administration's plans to build a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. An...

Russian and US Rhetoric intensifies on Georgia

These two statements from the Russian and US foriegn Ministers appear to represent irreconcilable differences.  From the Russian side we get this:""One can forget about any talk about Georgia's territorial integrity because, I believe, it is impossible to persuade South...

TdF'08 -- Pez rates the contenders

Well once again it's almost Tour time and once again Pez is making it's picks for the podium. While pretty much everyone, everywhere agrees that Cadel Evans and Alejandro Valverde are the clear favourites, after that it gets pretty fuzzy. Your fortune teller or...

RI agrees to install seven radars from US in Makassar Strait

""The purpose of installing the seven radars is to support maritme defense and security in the South East Asian region," Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono told ANTARA News on Tuesday.He said the US government was...

India eyes overseas arms market

New Delhi (ANTARA News) - India is looking to export military hardware, including Russian-Indian cruise missiles, taking advantage of lower production costs at home, a Defense Research and Development Organization...

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