Seventh UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (1997 - 2006) will become an honorary guest of the First Ukrainian Intellectual Youth Forum "Tomorrow: Peace, Ukraine, Me" on May 16. Kofi Annan will deliver a lecture Global Challenges of Present Time to
by Staff Sgt. Ruth Curfman 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq: Balad Air Base has been chosen by Air Force leaders to be the test base for a weapons prepositioning initiative expected to save the Air
MOSCOW: Venezuela is planning to conclude several contracts with Russia next month on the purchase of military equipment worth at least $2 billion, a leading Russian business daily said on Monday. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is expected to pay an
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio: Air Force and U.S. officials forecast a serious shortage of scientists and engineers. That assessment was made by Joe Sciabica, executive director of the Air Force Research Laboratory, during a Regional Defense Forum here May
Taipei: China is building up its military defences to deter US intervention in case of war with Taiwan, the island's defence ministry said Monday. Beijing is focusing on developing long-range missiles "to strike at American bases and battle carrier groups
WASHINGTON: Defense Department officials here are developing a proposal to finance university research on national security-related issues, a senior Pentagon official said May 7. The Minerva Consortia, as it's called, would have the academic and intellectual communities focus on certain
FORT BLISS, Texas: Army Staff Sgt. Joshua Flowers has served combat deployments in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and understands firsthand what warfighters need to succeed. Last week, Flowers and his fellow soldiers from the Army Evaluation Task Force got a
WASHINGTON: China's new underground nuclear submarine base close to vital sea lanes in Southeast Asia has raised US concerns, with experts calling for a shoring up of alliances in the region to check Beijing's growing military clout. The base's existence
MOSCOW: Rebels in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia claimed Monday to have shot down two Georgian spy planes in the same day, Interfax news agency reported, but Georgia immediately dismissed the claim. "The second Georgian unmanned spy plane today
During a normal training flight, we might be in the air for five hours and have only one receiver. During Northern Edge missions, you could see four or five different receivers and each aircraft is different," he said. "Working with
MOSCOW: A manufacturing plant in southwest China has started to assemble Russian-designed Mi-171 transport helicopters, one of Russia's key arms exports, the Russian business daily Vedomosti said on Monday. China plans to build at least 20 helicopters in 2008 with
COALITION of Ijaw Kingdoms Youth Presidents/Leadership Forum says that the parley with militants by some governors of the Niger-Delta will not not stop hostage taking, oil bunkering and other illegal activities in the waterways and urged the governors to embark
As children of God most Rwandans have lost their innocence, thanks largely to the actions of the self proclaimed representatives of Christ's message on earth.
A NUMBER of former army generals from the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) are in Zimbabwe gathering information on the escalating level of violence in the country.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has ordered the Registry to appoint a lawyer for an accused who is still at large, Fulgence Kayishema.
President Kibaki and his Cabinet ministers on Monday appeared to set aside the law banning public officers from conducting harambees and gathered to raise Sh457 million for internal refugees.
A key official in the government of Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland announced Monday that he has quit mediation efforts to help resolve an election dispute between the Somaliland president and opposition party leaders.
