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(Reuters) - Afghanistan would support Pakistan in case of military conflict between Pakistan and the United States, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview to a private Pakistani TV channel broadcast on Saturday. The remarks were in sharp contrast to recent tension between the two...

PHOTO: Baby UCAV flies in China? - The DEW Line By Stephen Trimble on September 23, 2011 5:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) |ShareThis A new photo on sinodefenseforum and Secret Projects appears to show China's first stealthy unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV). One...

September 27-30 Fingers crossed. All Things Nuclear; New Launch Window Set for Tiangong 1

The Hindu : News / International : Former Afghan President Rabbani killed in suicide attack Burhanuddin Rabbani, former President of Afghanistan and Chairman of the High Peace Council — leading the year-old Afghan effort to negotiate with the Taliban — was killed in a bomb blast at...

Advice on Debt? Europe Suggests US Can Keep It The United States has long been considered a financial adviser to the rest of the world. But these days, American officials come carrying baggage. Financial officials from the United States, once called “the committee to save the...

TAIPEI (AP) - Taiwan's opposition presidential candidate has said she is open to the island's unification with China, providing the issue wins popular support. Even with the condition, Tsai Ing-wen's comments represents a radical departure for her traditionally pro-independence Democratic...

With Nato flailing in Afghanistan, the attacks on Kabul only strengthen the Taliban's position before negotiations begin Over the last decade Nato has constantly found itself behind the curve in planning and executing what they call "influence operations" – a combination of the use of...

I was sitting on the Tube with my six-year-old son. I’d bought him a bag of crisps and he was munching them while I read some boring periodical. Then: “Dad, Dad …” He pulled at my elbow. “Shush!” I admonished him. “I’m reading.” Then again: “Dad, Dad …” He pointed towards the only other person...

Reporting from Washington— In a grim portrait of a nation in economic turmoil, the government reported that the number of people living in poverty last year surged to 46.2 million — the most in at least half a century — as 1 million more Americans went without health insurance and household...

The decline and fall of the American middle class | guardian.co.uk No one can accuse the candidates on stage at Monday's Republican debate of not discussing a broad range of topics. They talked about big issues like social security, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, energy independence...

September 10th, 2011 Author: Eddie Walsh, Washington DC The Australian government is now reconsidering its $16 billion-plus commitment to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program. Experts believe that the Lockheed Martin program has suffered significant damage to its public...

Cross-border RMB settlement developing rapidly - People's Daily Online I think 1.63 trillion RMB (value 255 billion USD) flowed across the border this year thus far, a dramatic increase from last year where the total was about 500 billion yuan.

Following repeated pledges by President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) that there would be no political ramifications to the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) with China, US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show that Beijing intends to use deepening economic...

New WikiLeaks publications this week show how the U.S. government is trying to beat out competition from the French to sell military jets to Brazil. American diplomats have been telling Brazilian government officials that the competing Rafale Dassault jet is “less efficient and more expensive”...

Two years ago, the Indian Air Force blamed BAE Systems for a one-year delay in the assembly of 42 Hawk advanced jet trainers at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). BAE released a statement defending itself, but provided no details. Thanks to Julian Assange's latest dump of US State Department...

HO CHI MINH CITY - This past Sunday morning was the first in 12 with no reported anti-China protests in Hanoi. After arresting over 40 protesters last week, earlier warning about reprisals for protesters, the government has sent the message that they will no longer be tolerated. The United...

The Republican congressman and 2012 presidential candidate was shut out of the Sunday public affairs shows this past weekend despite his neck-and-neck second place finish to tea party favorite Michele Bachmann in Saturday's Ames, Iowa straw poll. He was likewise excluded from most of the...

Vietnamese Dissident on Trial for Subversion Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 A French-Vietnamese activist is on trial in Vietnam on charges of subversion. Pham Minh Hoang is accused of “carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the people's administration.” Authorities say he...

Ai Weiwei endured "immense pressure" in detention: source