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NICO - Dec 23, 08 08:00 PM
MOSCOW December 23, 2008 (AFP) - The Russian military will commission more than 70 strategic nuclear missiles in the next three years, Interfax news agency quoted the deputy head of the military-industrial committee as saying Monday.
NICO - Dec 23, 08 07:51 PM
MOSCOW December 23, 2008 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's foreign minister accused the United States on Tuesday of reneging on a promise not to allow Georgia membership in NATO if it ventured to attack breakaway South Ossetia.
NICO - Dec 23, 08 07:42 PM
December 23, 2008 (Murray Waas) - Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a still-highly confidential FBI report, admitted to federal investigators that he rewrote talking points for the press in July 2003 that made it much more likely that the role of then-covert CIA-officer Valerie Plame in sending her husband on a CIA-sponsored mission to Africa would come to light.
NICO - Dec 23, 08 07:33 PM
CONAKRY December 23, 2008 (Reuters) - Guinea faced political turmoil after the death of veteran President Lansana Conte opened a power vacuum and triggered a coup attempt by mutinous soldiers.
NICO - Dec 23, 08 06:33 PM
ISLAMABAD December 23, 2008 (Reuters) - India has given no information about last month's attacks in Mumbai to Interpol and information passed to media by Indian investigators should be shared if it is accurate, the police agency's chief said on Tuesday.
NICO - Dec 22, 08 09:09 PM
December 22, 2008 (Al Jazeera) - Pakistan's media has reported that the country's military is on high alert over a possible attack by India.
NICO - Dec 22, 08 08:42 PM
MOSCOW December 22, 2008 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is not selling S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Iran, the Russian federal service for military cooperation said in a statement on Monday.
NICO - Dec 22, 08 08:24 PM
December 22, 2008 (Raw Story) - The Republican consultant accused of involvement in alleged vote-rigging in Ohio in 2004 was warned that his plane might be sabotaged before his death in a crash Friday night, according to a Cleveland CBS affiliate.
NICO - Dec 22, 08 08:20 PM
WASHINGTON December 22, 2008 (AP) - It's something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where's the money going?
NICO - Dec 22, 08 08:01 PM
December 22, 2008 (Antiwar News) - Tonight it is being reported that Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has instructed diplomats across the globe to launch what is being described as a “PR blitz” to shore up international support for an Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip.