Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent London, United Kingdom (AHN) – International protest is building about the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange this week. Assange is being held in a British jail awaiting extradition to Sweden on rape charges. Meanwhile, the U.S. Justice Department is seeking to extradite him to the United States to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Russia’
India Set To Possess Nuclear Triad Capability By 2012
December 3rd, 2010
davidguide AHN News Staff Mumbai, India (AHN) – India is set to gate-crash into the exclusive three-member club of nuclear triads by 2012 with its first nuclear submarine, INS Arihant, which is to be commissioned in either late 2011 or early 2012. Arihant means “destroyer of enemies” in the Hindi language. Only three countries in the [...]
Medvedev Warns Of Arms Race In Absence Of Russia-NATO Defense Deal
December 1st, 2010
davidguide AHN News Staff Moscow, Russian Federation (AHN) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned that Europe could end up in a new arms race in the following decade if Moscow fails to reach an accord on missile defense cooperation with the West. His comments came during a state-of-the-nation speech in Kremlin on Tuesday. The president received [...]
India, Russia Look Beyond Comfort Zone Ahead Of Medvedev’s Dec Visit
November 19th, 2010
davidguide AHN News Staff New Delhi, India (AHN) – India and Russia, who have been friends since the days of India’s first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, are now ready to go beyond the traditional bilateral issues of military, space and strategy. This was the unanimous feeling emerging out of a recent meeting between India’s External [...]
Jordan Hosts Nuclear Inspectors With a Post-Apocalypse Landscape
November 14th, 2010
davidguide The Media Line Staff Dead Sea, Jordan (TML) – Nuclear experts from around the world were climbing into craters and clamouring up landslides as they gathered in a desolate corner of Jordan beside the Dead Sea to test their ability to uncover evidence of an unauthorized test explosion. Some 35 experts from 20 countries poured [...]
EU, Iran Push To Restart Nuclear Talks
November 11th, 2010
davidguide AHN News Staff Tehran, Iran (AHN) – Responding to European Union chief diplomat Catherine Ashton’s call to revive nuclear talks from November 15-18, Iran on Wednesday proposed fresh dates to resume talks with major world powers. Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili sent a letter to Ashton saying Tehran could restart negotiations on November 23 [...]
France, Germany Launch Drive To Restore Ties With Russia
October 19th, 2010
davidguide AHN News Staff Deauville, France (AHN) – In an attempt to build a pan-European security partnership, the leaders of France and Germany are meeting with their Russian counterpart in the Normandy seaside resort of Deauville for a two-day summit. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that they jointly launched the drive [...]
Posted in
Tags: