Romney: Obama should tell Iran military option not on table, but in our hand
Natasha Mozgovaya Haaretz Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney critizised the approach of U.S. President Barack Obama vis a vis Iran on Wednesday, saying he should have communicated that a military option is not only on the table, but “in our hand.” Speaking at the Republican Debate in Arizona, Romney said Obama, who has tightened sanctions [...]
Read More →Russia says U.S. might use Kyrgyz airbase in Iran strike
DailyStar Russia on Wednesday said it could not rule out that the United States would use the U.S. Manas airbase in ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan for an eventual strike on Iran over its contested nuclear program. “It cannot be excluded that this site could be used in a potential conflict with Iran,” foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich [...]
Read More →China, India, Japan to cooperate on naval escorts
NewsLeaks The defence ministry said Thursday that China, India and Japan will step up their coordination and cooperation on international anti-piracy naval escorts. “The integrated escort schedule will be arranged on a quarterly basis,” Xinhua quoted defence spokesman Geng Yansheng as saying during a news briefing. He also noted that the strengthened coordination and cooperation [...]
Read More →Arrested Saudi teen indicted for singing in praise of Bin Laden on US flight
ANI Police in Portland,Oregon, have accused a 19-year-old Saudi Arabian of singing about Osama bin Laden during a flight to Houston. Nineteen-year-old Yazeed Mohammed A Abunayyan was indicted on Wednesday on charges of interfering with a aircraft crew. He was arrested at Portland International Airport after his Continental flight turned around and landed following the [...]
Read More →Japan to develop lifeboat for tsunami
AsianAge Japan has initiated a project to develop a lifeboat which is able to float on rising tsunami waves as one of the evacuation measures, a media report said. The project is initiated by Shikoku Region Transport Bureau. The south coast line Shikoku island is directly facing the Pacific Ocean, reported Xinhua. The planned lifeboat [...]
Read More →Clouds to cool the earth
ZeeNews Analysis of lower cloud levels over the past decade has thrown up hints of a cooling mechanism that may be key to the planet’s climate, a study reveals. The analysis of this data from the NASA Terra satellite reveals that the global average cloud height declined by around one percent over the decade, or [...]
Read More →Peres: Stop war rhetoric against Iran
PressTV Israeli President Shimon Peres has reportedly called on Israeli officials to halt their recently intensified war rhetoric against Iran, describing such anti-Iran remarks as unnecessary warmongering. Peres told the Israeli officials that there is no point in the “unceasing self-intimidation,” and that Israel should leave “the Iran issue to the superpowers, first and foremost [...]
Read More →US, France, UK, Turkey, Italy prepare for military intervention in Syria
DEBKAfile Despite public denials, military preparations for intervention in the horrendous Syrian crisis are quietly afoot in Washington, Paris, Rome, London and Ankara. President Barack Obama is poised for a final decision after the Pentagon submits operational plans for protecting Syrian rebels and beleaguered populations from the brutal assaults of Bashar Assad’s army, debkafile’s Washington [...]
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