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Iraq
The U.S. military has prepared contingency plans to delay the planned withdrawal of all combat forces in Iraq, citing the prospects for political instability and increased violence as Iraqis hold national elections next month.
Under a deadline set by President Obama, all combat forces are slated to withdraw from Iraq by the end of August, and [...]
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Dangerous Crossroads: U.S. Moves Missiles And Troops To Russian Border
Nuclear and Conventional Arms Pacts Stalled
Rick Rozoff / Global Research
2010 is proceeding in a manner more befitting the third month of the year, named after the Roman god of war, than the first whose name is derived from a pacific deity.
On January 13 the Associated Press reported that the White House will submit its Quadrennial [...]
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Russia
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia wants the U.S. to share detailed data about its planned missile shield under a new arms control treaty, signaling potential new difficulties in the ongoing negotiations between Moscow and Washington. Putin’s televised remarks set a defiant tone as negotiators try to hammer out a successor to the [...]
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Russia
Medvedev stressed that Russia would continue to develop a new generation of nuclear missiles. “Despite the fact that we will prepare and sign this treaty [START], we will still be pursuing the development of our strategic offensive forces because it is not possible to defend our country without them.” “We will of course be pursuing [...]
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Russia
Russia remains on schedule in fulfilling its commitments under the chemical weapons convention, and has met the end-of-year deadline for reducing its stockpiles by 45% from the 1990s level, a government official said. “In line with Russia’s federal program for destroying chemical weapons, in spite of all the difficulties in implementing this program, Russia will [...]
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Israel and UK
Israel has reacted angrily to the issuing by a British court of an arrest warrant for the former Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni. The warrant, granted by a London court on Saturday, was revoked on Monday when it was found Ms Livni was not visiting the UK. Ms Livni was foreign minister during [...]
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US and Russia
Top Russian [deputy foreign minister Sergei Riabkov] and US [undersecretary of state Ellen Tauscher] officials held talks in Moscow Monday dealing with the expired START nuclear weapons treaty, and a new deal could be reached by December 18, according to a Russian newspaper.
US and South Korea
A US envoy [Stephen Bosworth] Monday stressed unity [...]
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Russia
Russia opposes change in Bosnia-Herzegovina constitution, insists it is unacceptable to impose constitutional reforms on other countries. his was stated by Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin addressing a UN Security Council meeting. The US and the European Union are pressing Bosnia-Herzegovina to carry out constitutional reforms and work out their own amendments [...]
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Palestine
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will accept the recommendation of independent election experts on Thursday to postpone the vote he had scheduled for January, senior officials said. The Central Election Commission said it had advised Abbas to put off the election since the rival Hamas Islamist group ruling some 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip [...]
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