Iran denies launch of missile in Persian Gulf
RIA Novosti A high-ranking Iranian Navy official has denied the country test-launched a wide-range missile during sea exercises in the Persian Gulf and said the launch was postponed, state Iranian news agencies reported on Saturday. Earlier on Saturday, the semi-official Fars news agency in Iran reported the Navy had launched a live missile in a [...]
Read More →NASA’s twin GRAIL probes may find remnants of moon’s lost sibling
NewKerala Two identical NASA space probes are due to arrive at the moon on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day to find if the Earth’s companion holds the wrecked body of a lost sibling body. The twin GRAIL probes will determine what lies beneath the lunar crust by measuring the moon’s gravitational field, Discovery [...]
Read More →Cuba’s “NSA” Suspected of Aiding North Korea
Chris Simmons Babalu Intelligence sharing between Cuba and North Korea has likely spiked following the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Unlike the broad intelligence sharing agreements Havana has with Moscow and Beijing, Cuba’s support to Pyongyang is narrowly focused on US Special Operations Forces (SOF), particularly those supporting Seoul. Washington and both Koreas [...]
Read More →S. Arabia boosted its defense capabilities with a $29.4 bln arms deal with the US
ArabNews The Kingdom confirmed on Friday that it has signed the deal to purchase 84 F-15SA fighter jets. A Defense Ministry spokesman said the deal includes 70 Apache attack helicopters, 72 Black Hawk helicopters, 36 AH-6i helicopters and 12 MD-530F helicopters as well as upgrading of 70 existing F15 jets. “The agreement also includes munitions, [...]
Read More →Change the calendar?
Lisa Karpova Pravda.ru Scientists propose a fixed schedule, with an additional week 5 or 6 years According to the proposal, holidays will always fall on the same day of the week, all year. The proposed new schedule would have to be accepted by governments around the world An astrophysicist and an economist from the United States [...]
Read More →Chinese food safety regulators warn over cancer-causing mildew in peanuts, cooking oil
GlobalPost Chinese food safety regulators are warning of a cancer-causing mildew found in peanuts and cooking oil in the southern city of Shenzhen,the official Xinhua news agency said. It is the latest of many food safety scandals to hit China in recent years. High doses of a carcinogenic substance, called aflatoxin, were found in peanuts sold [...]
Read More →UK equipped Saddam during war on Iran
PressTV Secret documents have revealed that the British government clandestinely supplied the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime with military equipment during his eight-year-long imposed war on Iran. Although the British government had repeatedly denied allegations that the UK assisted Saddam Hussein in his eight-year imposed war on Iran insisting Britain was officially neutral, revealed [...]
Read More →3.5 Million Homeless and 18.5 Million Vacant Homes in the US
Diane Sweet AI via OccupyAmerica The National Economic and Social Rights Initiative along with Amnesty International are asking the U.S. to step up its efforts to address the foreclosure crisis, including by giving serious consideration to the growing call for a foreclosure moratorium and other forms of relief for those at risk, and establishing a [...]
Read More →Virus sickens 110,000 in Vietnam, kills 166
AP via YahooNews Vietnam says an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease has infected more than 110,000 people this year and killed 166, most of them children under 5 years old. A Health Ministry official said Friday that the infection rate was slowing from a September peak of 3,000 per week to about 1,500 per week in December. The [...]
Read More →The Euro’s sad birthday
RIA Novosti January 1 will mark ten years of Euro cash. This anniversary will be a sad one; the eurozone is going through tough times. The debt crisis that has swept Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain threatens to develop into a financial downturn that could trigger a new recession. Most experts believe the European currency [...]
Read More →Syrian Troops Filmed Firing on Protesters
INN Amatuer video from Syria on Friday showed Arab League observers running from gunfire as security forces opened fire on civilians. The film comes as tens of thousands took to the streets in continued protests against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The Arab League mission to verify whether President Bashar al-Assad is keeping to [...]
Read More →Iran to Test Lon-Range Missiles in Navy Wargames
FarsNews “The Iranian navy will test several kinds of its missiles, including its long-range missiles, in the Persian Gulf on Saturday,” Deputy Commander of the Iranian Navy and Spokesman of the Drills Admiral Mahmoud Moussavi told FNA. “The fire of missiles is the final part of the navy drill,” said Moussavi. “The final phase of [...]
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