The deadly convenience of Victor Bout ISN | With international arms dealer Victor Bout behind bars in Bangkok, many world leaders are squirming over revelations of his client list. | By John C K Daly for ISN Security Watch (24/06/08) | The arrest on 6 March of 41-year-old Viktor Anatol'evich Bout in Bangkok continues to shine a most unwelco...
Malema's words not a call to arms, says Zuma Mail Guardian South Africa Controversial comments made by African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema on June 16 were not a call for the youth to take up arms, ANC president Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday. | Malema told a Youth Day rally in Thaba Nchu in the Free State on Monday: "We are prepared to die for Z...
Detective tale is best for strong attention spans -- and arms Seattle Post | Consider, for the moment, the 500-page novel. COMING UP | STEPHEN L. CARTER DISCUSSES 'PALACE COUNCIL' | WHEN / WHERE: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, The Elliott Bay Book Co., 101 S. Main St., 206-624-6600. | Does the big novel still offer its longtime promi...
Arms dump explosions rock Bulgarian capital ... then the city is struck by an earthquake The Daily Mail | A series of powerful explosions rocked an arms disposal depot storing 1,500 tonnes of obsolete munitions outside Sofia on Thursday, injuring three people, shaking apartment blocks and panicking thousands. | The explosions followed a fire at the com...
Asia arms race may be overstated Canada Dot Com | CANBERRA (Reuters) - Asia's arms race may be overstated, with defense spending on the decline as a proportion of economic growth, pointing to an increasing sense of regional security, an Australian defense conference heard on Thursday. | Convention...
Keeping and bearing arms Philadelphia Daily News A book of photographs presents Americans with guns - the citizenry packing heat at home. | By Natalie Pompilio | For The Inquirer A lot can be learned by paging through photographer Kyle Cassidy's . | Gun owners are married or single. Some have child...
Ring may have shared nuclear weapon plans CNN | WASHINGTON (AP) -- An international smuggling ring may have secretly shared blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon with Iran, North Korea and other rogue countries, The Washin...
Chill sets in over US arms sting Sydney Morning Herald | The Cold War has broken out again, and Thailand suddenly finds itself caught uncomfortably in the middle of competing US and Russian interests. At the centre of the conflict is t...
Man dies in his father's arms after being lost in Amazon forest for 42 days Canada Dot Com | RIO DE JANEIRO - A Brazilian student lost in the Amazon rain forest for more than 40 days was found by his father, only to die in his arms shortly after, rescue officials said on Tuesday. | Jonathan dos Santos Alves, 18, had been lost in the forest...
7 armed robbers storm casino News24 | Johannesburg - Seven armed men robbed the Ridge Casino in Witbank of an undisclosed amount of money, Mpumalanga police said on Monday. | Superintendent Abie Khoabane said the robbers stormed into the casino on Sunday and held up staff. | The robber...
Bioscience industry to get $40M shot in the arm The Business Review | Colorado's medical research industry could potentially receive a boost of up to $40 million through a new grant program. | The announced Wednesday it will form a partnership with the and the University of Colorado. Funds from the endeavor will ...
Iran: attack and we'll strike you back Belfast Telegraph | Iran has handed over its long-awaited response to the West's offer of incentives to halt its suspected nuclear weapons programme, after a warning by one of its top military leaders that any strike against it would trigger war. | Details were not immediately disclosed of what Iran called a "constructive and creative" response to an offer by the US...
Rice 'proud' of Iraq invasion News24 | Washington - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that she was "proud" of the US decision to invade Iraq and said the Middle East had improved since President George W Bush took office. | In an interview with Bloomberg television, Rice also cited progress in North Korea and China as evidence that the Bush administration, which ha...
