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Christians of various confessions supported by Muslims, Jews and even some agnostics have gathered for a founding convention of the Ten Commandments Party – a secular movement which seeks to establish religious ethical principles in the society. The founding convention hosted 134 delegates...

“ANKA” Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) System, developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (TAI) and the flight tests of which have continued since 30th December 2010, completed the acceptance testing process with the flights made on 20th January 2013 and 22nd January 2013. The 18+ hour long...

The Bulava (SS-NX-30) is the submarine-launched version of Russia's most advanced missile, the Topol-M (SS-27) solid fuel ICBM. The SS-NX-30 is a derivative of the SS-27, except for a slight decrease in range due to conversion of the design for submarine launch. The SS-27 has is 21.9 meters...

(Reuters) - Russia will lease eight jets worth $650 million to its Cold War- era ally Cuba and will partially write off the country's multi-billion-dollar, Soviet-era debt under agreements signed during Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Havana on Thursday. Moscow will write off part...

Russia introduces a new export version of its mobile 3D air defense radar 1L121-E at Aero-India 2013 The Russian company NNIIRT has introduced an export version of its 1L121-E mobile 3-D air-defence radar at the Aero-India 2013, The Russian company NNIIRT has introduced an export...

Baghdad: Iraq on Saturday took delivery of the first 11 of 140 American M1A1 Abrams tanks, just weeks before the US military ends its combat mission here and pulls thousands of its troops out of the country. The remainder of the order will be completed by the end of 2011, when the US military...

"I have never seen... double and triple cancers in one patient... My wife has nine members of her family with cancer"-- Iraqi doctor. When anyone makes nuclear energy or nuclear weapons, a massive amount of radioactive waste is created. In the U.S., Depleted Uranium is harnessed by the...

Israel warned before on faking passport: diplomat A FORMER Australian ambassador to Israel has revealed that he warned the Israeli government not to fake Australian passports for intelligence operations. Ian Wilcock, who was Australia's ambassador in Israel from 1997 to 1999, has told The...

Foreign Policy has just released its annual ranking of the world’s most failed states and there is good news and bad news for Israel. The good news is that it is one of the less failed of the failed states. The bad news is that it IS a failed state (using the terms adopted by Foreign Policy)...

Recent events surrounding Afghanistan shouldn’t confuse anyone, as the reality of the situation still lies in one simple statement: The US-NATO coalition has lost a war its political leaders never meant, or knew how, to win. ‘Winning’ in Afghanistan was never anything more than killing Osama...

WASHINGTON -- Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed...

During the last years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union adopted a policy saying it would not be the first to use a nuclear weapon. In the United States, there were many renowned graybeards - including George Kennan, the father of "containment" policy - who said Washington should adopt the same...

Counterterror Adviser Defends Jihad as 'Legitimate Tenet of Islam' The president's top counterterrorism adviser on Wednesday called jihad a "legitimate tenet of Islam," arguing that the term "jihadists" should not be used to describe America's enemies. During a speech at the Center...

Twelve of the 43 men who have served as US president have been former generals – including the very first occupant of the Oval Office, George Washington. Nonetheless, there has not been a general in the White House since Dwight D Eisenhower, the former Supreme Allied Commander in the Second...

State of the art air defence system will be integrated into Pakistan Air Force (PAF) within a few days. Defence sources told this news agency that air defence system had been named SPADA and Pakistan had acquired it from Italy. This system will become fully operational next week and it will...

The Israeli army has charged one of its own soldiers with the manslaughter of two Palestinian women who were shot dead while waving white flags during the Gaza war. By Dina Kraft in Tel Aviv Published: 10:12PM BST 06 Jul 2010 The sniper is the only person to face prosecution over the killing...

by Staff Writers Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 06, 2010 Russia and Yemen could sign an arms contract worth over $1 billion, an international arms expert has said. A Yemeni delegation led by President Ali Abdullah Saleh discussed sales of Russian arms to the Arab republic recently during the...

Kuwaiti newspaper quotes Russian sources as saying Israel is monitoring Nasrallah, and even located the Hezbollah chief. The Hezbollah has prepared a list of targets the Lebanese militia would hit in the event that the group's leader Hassan Nasrallah or other top officials would be...

f-22-shortcomings http://micom.net/oops/F-22 Crash.mp4 The United States' top fighter jet, the Lockheed Martin F-22, has recently required more than 30 hours of maintenance for every hour in the skies, pushing its hourly cost of flying to more than $44,000, a far higher...

Acoustic Sensor And Netted Combat System Linked For Enhanced Counter Sniper Capability Raytheon has linked its Boomerang acoustic sensor and network-ready Long Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System to provide an enhanced counter sniper solution for the warfighter. "Connecting Boomerang and...