"November 10 Ex Colombian President worried by Venezuelan-Russian naval exercises Former Colombian President Andrés Pastrana (1998-2002) is concerned by the unprecedented joint naval exercises between ...
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" UPDATES: DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bangladesh said Tuesday it will send a delegation to Myanmar this week to discuss a territorial dispute, after ships from the neighboring country allegedly intruded into its...
" Naval investigators have new images of a man found dead in the water at Naval Station Norfolk 11 years ago. They still don’t know who he is, though. “John Doe’s” body...
If you steal from the navy, can you call it "piracy"? Even if it's on dry land? This is not a rhetorical question, since a sysadmin for the US Naval Research Laboratory has just pled guilty to ripping off nearly...
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"President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Russia will help Venezuela develop nuclear energy - a move likely to raise U.S. concerns over increasingly close cooperation between Caracas and Moscow.Chavez said he accepted an offer from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for...
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" By VOA News 26 September 2008 The Russian navy says it is sending a warship to Somalia's coast after pirates there seized a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks and other military hardware, as well as crew.In a statement Friday, Russian Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo says...
As America and NATO pursue a path of escalating provocations against Russia in the Black Sea, the danger of a direct confrontation that could quickly escalate out of control builds. Russia is currently responding to...
" Greens promote ‘Peace Slate’ and call Obama/Biden the ‘faux antiwar’ ticket, citing Obama’s record and warhawk positions on military funding, US troops in Afghanistan, threats against Iran; McKinney...
In the wake of crisis in Georgia the United States has canceled its long proposed joint naval exercise with Russia. USA feels that situation is not conducive enough to hold an exercise. The naval exercise was to have started Friday off the Russian Pacific port of...
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The United States had sent three new American flotillas to the Persion Gulf, raising the number of United States strike forces in the Middle East to 5. The United States, France, Britain, and Canada are planning a naval blockade to deny Iran imports of refined oil...
This is an interesting story and not what you'd expect."NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man with a black hood pours water on the face of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit strapped to a table: no, it's not Guantanamo Bay...
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I was very suprised by the sentence that was given to Hamdan in light of the way other terror suspects have been treated. Hoever, I cannot say that I disagree with the sentence, if he is indeed telling the truth then...
"GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A jury of six U.S. military officers convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver of supporting terrorism but cleared him of conspiracy Wednesday in the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay. A...
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Osama Bin Laden's Driver, Guilty!Verdict reached at Guantanamo trial, Aljazeera "The Yemeni national was captured at a roadblock in southern Afghanistan in November 2001, allegedly with two surface-to-air...
Despite peace efforts between two countries this incident would further deepen tension between two countries. "A South Korean woman has been shot dead by a North Korean soldier while visiting a resort in the North Korean mountains, reports say. The shooting took place at the...
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