China warns US to keep out of Taiwan
A ROW between China and the US over port visits to Hong Kong has extended into a renewed move by Beijing to prevent foreign naval vessels sailing through the 180km-wide Taiwan Strait.
Warships head to Mediterranean in Russian show of strength
Russia has dispatched an 11-ship aircraft carrier group to the Mediterranean Sea as a first step towards re-establishing a naval presence in the region.
The manoeuvres are part of an effort to resume regular Russian naval patrols around the world, according to the Russian defence minister, Anatoly Serdyukov.
Iran ‘nuclear bombshell’ splits US
American intelligence agencies startled the world last week by judging “with high confidence” that while Tehran continued to enrich uranium – which could be used for nuclear power or bombs – it had halted its nuclear “weaponisation” programme in 2003, before the MI6 meeting.US: Iran Still Poses Missile Threat
The United States says it will not alter plans to build a missile defense system in Europe despite findings by U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran does not have an active nuclear weapons program.
Iran drops dollar from oil deals: report
Major crude producer Iran has completely stopped carrying out its oil transactions in dollars, Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said on Saturday, labelling the greenback an "unreliable" currency.
"Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic
Bush mortgage plan freezes subprime rates for 5 years
Faced with a wave of costly home foreclosures, the Bush administration and financial institutions agreed to a five-year freeze on interest rates for certain Americans who face default on their subprime mortgages.
Hill Close To Deal on War Funds
House Democratic leaders could complete work as soon as Monday on a half-trillion-dollar spending package that will include billions of dollars for the war effort in Iraq without the timelines for the withdrawal of combat forces that President Bush has refused to accept...
If the bargain were to become law, it would be the third time since Democrats took control of Congress that they would have failed to force Bush to change course in Iraq and continued to fund a war that they have repeatedly vowed to end.
[U.K.] Psychotropic Drug Prescriptions to Children Skyrocket 400 Percent in Ten Years
Somalia violence kills nearly 6,000 since '06 - group
[U.S.] National Debt Grows $1 Million a Minute
Behind Chavez's Defeat in Venezuela
On Dec. 2, voters rejected Chavez's request to change the country's constitution to give him greater powers and allow him to serve as President for life.
Australian rice crop at record low
Bush handed blueprint to seize Pakistan's nuclear arsenal
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