April 2008

29 Apr 2008 - - Korea Times - Defense Cost-Sharing Talks to Test Korea-US Alliance Defense Minister Lee Sang-hee and his U.S. counterpart, Robert Gates, are expected to focus on resolving the money issue during talks scheduled for later next month, defense ministry officials said. The two defense chiefs are scheduled to hold talks on the sidelines of an annual security forum in Singapore, known as the Shangri-La Dialogue, to be held from May 30 to June 1, they said.
25 Apr 2008 - - Pioneer - The power of pretence While it is nobody's case India should outsource its foreign policy to another country, it is worth asking what role, if any, it sees for itself in the power drama of the 21st century. The war of words vis-à-vis the Iranian President's visit is just one sample of this predicament. The actions of successive Indian public officials at the International Institute of Strategic Studies conference on India, held in New Delhi over the past weekend, presented other examples
24 Apr 2008 - - Al-Ahram Weekly - Can Bush attack again? The US-Israeli path to war is not free of potholes and obstructions. For one, Iran has military capacities large enough to cause significant losses were hostilities to break out. The London International Institute for Strategic Studies report on the balance of powers in 2006 offers tangible information in this regard. Iran produces some 2,000 types of defensive arms, from ammunition to airplanes, and from missile launching systems to satellites. It exports military equipment to more than 30...
23 Apr 2008 - - Straits Times - India sends signal to US with Iranian leader's visit On Sunday, in the clearest signal India has publicly sent, PM Singh's national security adviser M.K. Narayanan said 'any mishandling will impact negatively on us'. Pointing out that India had the second-largest population of Shi'ite Muslims in the world after Iran, and that the two countries had civilisational ties, Mr Narayanan went on to note that Iran was a country with a major global footprint.
23 Apr 2008 - - Red Pepper - Colombias war in the Andes It is difficult to calculate the number of deaths related to the violence since 1948. Figures of 200,000 and even 300,000 have been quoted for the number of people killed from 1948 to 1956 but that figure is undoubtedly imprecise. Figures from 1964 onwards also vary. The International Institute for Strategic Studies estimates that from 1963 to 2000, 47,000 people died as a direct consequence of the violence, while Amnesty International estimates that 60,000 people died in the much shorter...
23 Apr 2008 - - Fars News Agency - Iran Views Talks with IAEA as Positive India had also said on Saturday that military action or sanctions against Iran would exacerbate the situation and that it favored a solution which involves Tehran. "Sanctions or military action - none of them is a lasting solution and will only exacerbate the situation. We need to evolve something that involves Iran," Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said in an interactive session at the India Global Forum in New Delhi.

Page: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [+11]

[ Next » ]